On our way home, we stopped by Home Depot to pick up this thing to fix the base of our toilet. Upon entering, the marketing geniuses bombarded the entrance with gardening merchandise. Of course with a gardening mindset, I decided to "look around" and check out some magazines for ideas on how to map my garden. Well, I looked around and every section in Home Depot, there are seeds. So I decided to "look around" some more to get an idea of the types of veggies I should grow. Well, a half an hour of "looking around," I started pulling seed packets off their shelves... and after another half an hour of putting it back, and taking another packet, putting it back and talking myself out of it again, I purchased beets, string beans and carrot seed packets for $1 each. Okay, so I skipped a community event of gardeners who probably saved their seeds from last year's harvest. Seeds with a personal touch, to a Home Depot seed packet from who knows where??? Oh the SHAME!!! I wouldn't even feel this bad if I at least waited a day or two. But no, I was marked for target, and I totally went for it.
Beet Salad:
6-8 beets
1 can sweet peas
2-3 large celery chopped
1 small red onion (minced)
3 TBS mayo (or use olive oil for vegan substitute)
1 TBS dijon mustard
garlic powder
salt
pepper
peel and boil beets. Once beets are cooled, chop in to cubes. Rinse red onions in cold water. drain can sweet peas. Combine ingredients in a bowl. Add mayo/olive oil and dijon mustard. Add garlic powder, salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Add canned asparagus and canned mushrooms for a hearty meal
That looks a little strange. How's it taste? I had beets for the first time about two years ago at a coworkers house. They were just canned beets, but I really liked the flavor. Luckily for me, my coworker warned me that the red color would have to exit my body, because otherwise I would have been dialing 911 the next day when I looked into the toilet. Since then I've had beets in two other recipes, and both recipes called for the beets to be roasted. The one recipe is roasted beets and goat cheese layered together, the other one is a salad with roasted beets, orange slices, goat cheese, and a homemade dressing. YUM!!
ReplyDeleteit was ok. it was a version of my mom's potato salad with all sorts of canned veggies. i love beets, sometimes I forget I have it and it does cause some alarm the next day.
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