I am a Proud New Owner of a Raw Beet!

[EndersDame]

I gave my sister a copy of Jitterbug Perfume and she left me a single raw beet! I just don't know what or how to do anything with it. Any suggestions?

[NV Whino]

1. Peel it and

1. slice it raw fora salad.
2. cut it up and boil it until slightly soft.

Be careful, beet juice stains everything.

[Duer 157099]

2. Roast it in the oven, unpeeled

after it's cooked, it's easy to pull the peel right off. Roasting concentrates the sweetness compared to boiling where much is washed away.

YUM. I just roasted several beets a few nights ago. Great in salads.

[EndersDame]

3. I think I need to get another beet so I can roast and eat raw!

[jmowreader]

4. Fair warning

The first time you use the bathroom after you eat the beet, please flush BEFORE you look into the toilet. Every time I eat fresh beets (best way to eat it: bake it for 90 minutes and treat it like a baked potato) the toilet looks like I'm dying of internal bleeding. Nope, just the beet's natural color.

[Duer 157099]

5. LOL, I was going to point that out too

And it lasts for more than just one day too. Can freak you out if you're not expecting it!

[petronius]

6. Good call - I was milliseconds from calling my physician, before I remembered

that I'd had beets the day before. :)

Personally, I like them raw - grated, with a bit of olive oil. Maybe a carrot added in...

[BrklynLiberal]

7. yum. Like your beet/carrot salad idea.

But I love beets anyway they are made..but as has been pointed out...must always be aware of them when using toilet for next few days.

[jmowreader]

8. That brings back a story from my youth...

When I was a little kid, the next-door neighbor's daughter was taken to the hospital in July displaying symptoms of severe internal bleeding. Apparently her mom looked in the toilet and saw the water was bright red, freaked out, loaded her in the car and headed to the hospital. They took all these x-rays and did tests to try to locate the bleeding to no avail. In St. Maries we had four doctors, and they always did surgery in teams. So Dr. Hendrickson, who was a very young doctor at the time, was getting ready to perform an exploratory to find the bleeding, and went to his partner Dr. Rapp, who had been a doctor in World War II, to get him ready for the work. Dr. Rapp looked at the x-rays, walked up to her mom and said something to the effect of, "does she eat a lot of watermelon?" Dr. Rapp sent her home with instructions to bring her back after three days of no watermelon...needless to say, the whole problem was just watermelon juice in her stool.

[LynneSin]

9. That's funny, I had a similiar incident with Blue Curacao

[EndersDame]

10. That would freak me out more than the red!

[sazemisery]

11. That reminds me of a TextFromLastNight I saw

something along the lines of:

After you threw up and it was blue, you started crying and wailed, "I don't want to be a Smurf"

:hi:

[Beetwasher]

12. First Off

Wash it.

[bluedigger]

13. You need expert advice, not internet advice!

Get with this guy for the real dope.



Travel advice here

[Arugula Latte]

14. Beats are too sweet for my vegetable-lovin' ass, but if you peel them,

cook until tender with onions, and toss with arugula (hey, it's my name), a vinaigrette and top with feta or goat cheese, those ingredients counteract the sweetness of the beet and make it fairly tasty.

[tonekat]

15. I love beets, Beet coriander puree is to die for

It's a recipe in The New Basics, and it is the most strinking magenta color, and the taste is just as amazing, if not more so.

The stories about the day after beets trauma reminded me of the first time that happened (not the first time I ever ate beets though). I was in Seattle with a friend and we ate in the hotel restaurant. The next morning, before checking out, I came out of the bathroom, feeling like I must have been white as a ghost and said "I think there's something really wrong with me..." She didn't look up from her magazine while replying "Nah, you had beets for dinner". Me: "Oh...right". She had already had this experience earlier.