Quote Originally Posted by skinimini View Post
Me too! Only my aunt tried to do that. I have a real mental block to beets. When I was 38 weeks pregnant with my son 22 years ago, my husband and I stayed with her for a week waiting for the closing on our house. She served beets every single night and being the polite southern girl, I made myself eat those things. They are the only vegetable that I really have a hard time eating. I won't touch canned cranberry sauce either. However, there is this fabulous veg restaurant near me that grates them raw on salads. Really pretty, and I have to say the beets are OK served in this way.
I had same sort of relationship with kohl rabi..a green looking beet. Totally different. It was one of the few hard vegetables that could grow in our childhood garden that could survive...with my parents being lazy gardeners but wanting to feed their large family cheaply somehow. I didn't eat the stuff again until a few yrs. ago when my partner prepared the sliced beets in a different way.

Red beets are relatively new to me as something to eat at home in the last few years. If I see a dish that looks worthwhile on restaurant menu, I will order it.

I just am not comfortable to do the cleanup, preparation of beets at home. My partner does the beet dishes. Honest, I'm concerned I'll easily get the beet stain in areas that I won't be able to remove easily.

My partner also feels energized when he eats beets. It must be the iron.