Red beets- energizing?

[shootingstar]

The bathroom result...well, just colouring in the end.


There's some great recipes out there which we've tried...roasting red beets (very easy) and serving them with abit of balsamic vinegar, bits of goat cheese on top. So easy and different. Epicurious.com has some great recipes. So does Cooking Light magazine at their website.

As for dearie, he's added crushed aniseed along with ginger root into the beet soup. It makes a unique soup with a spike of spiciness.

We even tried a recipe which was a red beet ravioli. No the pasta dough was not homemade..it used won ton wrappers.

[cylegoddess]

beet and carrot juice, mmmmm

[ClockworkOrange]

Hoooray, beetroot is one of my favourites but nobody else I know likes them.

Yes, gorgeous when put in juicer with carrots and apples..........got to be my favourite drink.

I eat it most days AND have actually planted some, never grown them before, so it is all exciting.

BTW crazycanuck. "also known as the table beet, beetroot, red beet or informally simply as beet, is one of the many cultivated varieties of beets and arguably the most commonly encountered variety in North America and Britain"

Check out this link, really interesting: http://www.lovebeetroot.co.uk/healthy_info/

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[Selkie]

I don't care for beets.

My mother used to make pickled eggs with beets. The smell of them made me gag.

[ZenSojourner]

As a kid, I LIKED beets.

As an adult, even the smell makes me gag sometimes.

My dad loves Harvard beets but I swear that man would eat anything if you put enough sugar on it. We go through 5 lbs (of sugar) a week, and it's ALL HIM.

[shootingstar]

Thx for the link, Orange. So it's not the iron in it, but the "better" sugar, slow-burning, natural sugar. Good stuff.

But pickled eggs (though I love them too) and beets, wouldn't be the tastiest way to introduce a kid to beets.

I probably didn't eat much red beets before...simply because it was never part of traditional Chinese cuisine at all. And I was afraid dealing with the staining possibilities.

Still am. Thank goodness dearie loves beets and doesn't mind handling them to make our lovely soups, etc. (He used to can lots of them years ago.)

[OakLeaf]

The bathroom result...well, just colouring in the end.

True, but it was interesting to learn that for the most part, some people experience beeturia because of the way their kidneys function, and most people don't. As I said, on a cursory search I found nothing about anyone like me, who experiences it only after long hard exertion.

I honestly think the energizing effect comes from the enzymes. There are very few vegetables most people eat raw and grated in large quantities; beets being one and cabbage being another. Not being much of a raw foodie, I don't get that rush often, but I recognize the beet rush as the same one I get when I eat at a raw food restaurant.

[Selkie]

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But pickled eggs (though I love them too) and beets, wouldn't be the tastiest way to introduce a kid to beets.

You know it! But I think the dislike of beets was independent from those putrid pink pickled/beet eggs. The last time I had beets was when I was 11 or so, and IIRC, I stealthily spit them into my napkin instead of eating them.

[cylegoddess]

ZENS -for gods sake, get your Dad off the sugar! Or at least some of it.
He will get insulin resistance, then Type 2 diabetes, not good!
I was a sugar junky for years. He may have adenal burnout, so seeking a rush from sugar. Chinese herbs can fix this, if prescribed by good naturpath.

Stevia is good - I use it in tea and to sweeten small things( it also helps insulin go back to normal, if levels are buggered).
Or I use honey. Still a bit bad but white sugar( or brown or blonde) is just bad. Its killing the barrier reef, too, with nasty washouts from crops over here in Australia too.
Ok enough meddling! No kids and I turn into everyones mother!