beetroot and other salads

The beetroot takes me back to childhood when we grew our own and mum boiling them------and me eating them ! As you said, sweet and the best flavour ever. I still prefer to boil them and slice them myself rather than ready done.
We grew radish as well, big fat and juicy with that lovely peppery overtone. Tomatoes and cucumber from next doors greenhouse. Thinking back, everything we ate was home-grown and mum even had her home-made pressed tongue or, and brawn.

Ah Fennel, that's why my Tesco didn't have any beetroot today - you bought the last bunch (smile)

I don't know why people don't grow them now. From my experience they're the easiest veg. to grow. No pests etc. All you need is a small patch of soil.
I'm waiting until husband has put up the last fence posts above a small plot and I'll put in some seeds, or seedlings.

ps - sorry Lindylou !

I grate beetroot raw, mix with pieces of fresh orange - delicious. Also grated carrot with raisins.
My fave at the moment is lettuce and salad leaves from the greenhouse, tomatoes, cucumber, avocado with vinaigrette.

I have always been terrified of cooking beetroot. Apparently you musn't make it 'bleed' but how do you test if it is cooked without stabbing it with a knife?

Pre-packed all the way for me. [shame]

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

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!

I can't stand Beetroot , tastes of mud !

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.

Gonegirl have you tried microwaving it?

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.

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.

And liver.....yuk.

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.

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.

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

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

Tomatoes straight from the greenhouse so still warm

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)

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

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

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

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.