beetroot and other salads

Used to grow them, and we would make up jars of pickled beetroot and also shallots, but we buy them now, and only grow tomatoes ( six different types) and courgettes.

My fave salad is:
Chopped up cucumber, spring onions and new potatoes in
A homemade yoghurt and chive dressing.
This goes well with pork or lamb.

We grow most salad veggies. Beetroot from seed, it's so easy. I cook them until the are tender, peel and dice them then add a good olive oil, finely chopped raw garlic, sea salt and ground, black pepper. Yummy.

I also love sliced tomatoes warm from the sun on the vine, olive oil, salt and pepper, mozzarella cheese and basil.

I grow loads of basil to make pesto, which freezes well. I put pesto with so many things.

Can't stand beetroot.
Can't imagine who ever first thought of eating it!
As a child I would move it down the table so I didn't have to smell it.

P.S. It is a lovely colour.

Roasted beetroot is good, so sweet I just googled a recipe for beetroot with pasta and it sounds very nice.
I'm growing beets this year different coloured one's looking forward to pulling them up ?

Chop cooked beetroot into small chunks with equal amount of eating apple (either peeled or unpeeled), mix with mayonnaise. Lovely contrast of textures and very tasty

Tomato's that are freshly picked or still on the vine, the smell is delicious, could eat tomato's like sweets given the chance. Also love beetroot, and most other salads ingredients. My daughter used to grow beetroots and one year found a recipe for a chocolate cake that included grated beetroot, it was lovely and gave a different texture to the cake plus a deep rich red colour.
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You can add a few chopped walnuts and grapes or diced kiwi fruit.

I do grated carrot and apple with a chopped spring onion and some lemon juice. It keeps well for a couple of days in a sealed container in the fridge.

I had a lovely salad the other day. Shaved fennel and celery. Just a few mixed salad leaves and a sharp dressing. Absolutely lovely. But I do love beetroot and have it whenever possible

When in season I like to scatter a few pomegranate seeds or a few grapes or olives.

we buy ready cooked beetroot from our Morrisons, good sell by date on it also.. love it

oh, thanks for all these ideas everyone... I love salad but get stuck with lettuce toms and cucumber,, and beeetroot when I remember

Get some disposable latex gloves for peeling beetroot, or buy ready peeled vacuum packed.
I got put off beetroot when I was a child, it was always served swimming in vinegar. Yuck.
Since discoverd raw beetroot shredded into salads is lovely.
I like spinach, avocado, walnuts and crispy bacon with a honey mustard lemon dressing. (Citrus juice helps the digestive system exttract the iron in the spinach)

Tomatoes straight from the greenhouse so still warm

At school we were always served beetroot chunks with fried fish on Fridays. Always thought that was odd.

Ohhh tuna and sweet corn sprinkled over a green salad.
Also grated carrots lovely

Gonegirl if you steam beetroot you can cut them up first - there’s nothing for them to bleed into. Cut up small they will cook in about 15 minutes or so.

Beetroot - delicious. There isn’t a vegetable I dislike really. Not terribly keen on white turnip, but not to the extent that I wouldn’t eat it though.

Miss our allotment terribly, nothing so lovely as freshly boiled beetroot, or asparagus or corn, or peas or broad beans or runners, we’ll all of it really. Think of those divine new potatoes dug and cooked within the hour! You can never replicate the taste with shop bought stuff.

And liver.....yuk.

I love beetroot but DH will not touch it. In his days of primary school dinners it was served boiled with stew and he would be kept in all lunchtime sitting over a portion of gravied beetroot because he didn't like it and wouldn't eat it.

I do not blame him. I feel the same about mashed potatoes, being forced to eat lumpy mashed potato made from potato powder.

Good replies. I'm surprised! for such a humble vegetable.
I have to go off now until Sunday. But do want to see your ideas for summer salads.

Gonegirl have you tried microwaving it?

I love beetroot. We’re just finishing the last of 2017s beetroot relish. Hope to make more this year. I got the recipe from the Internet and foolishly didn’t save it.
It’s not too late to plant, if you buy plantlets from the nursery.

I can't stand Beetroot , tastes of mud !

Is it too late to sow?
Has only one tried the golden beets? Does anyone roast them for a Sunday dinner, or does everyone boil?
Yes the smell of them cooking is not good!

And I hate the stink of it when it is cooking. Smells like boiling up peelings for chicken feed.