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vintage_recipes2010-11-01 01:19 pm
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Sweet & Sour Beets
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suzybel posted a recipe for sweet & sour beets:
Now beets are good for you, especially men and their, um, plumbing. So I've read. I've been trying to learn to like beets- I like most vegetables, but for some reason, beets always have an oddly sweet dirt taste to me.
Anyway, I made this recipe, and it really wasn't bad. The beets still tasted like dirt, but they were far more palatable than they usually are right out of the can.
However, just like always, I did make a mistake with this recipe that really I should have caught- I used beets from a can for this, and I used cider vinegar instead of wine. Now, this probably would have been fine, if the can of beets that I used hadn't been PICKLED beets! The end result was definitely much higher on the sour side than the sweet side!
I do plan on making it again one day, using non-pickled beets. I am determined to like the purple buggers!
(Well, maybe not like them ... but at least be able to eat them without wrinkling my nose.)
ETA: As I have learned from the comments, there's a lot of different ways for me to try beets! Thanks!
suzybel posted a recipe for sweet & sour beets:Now beets are good for you, especially men and their, um, plumbing. So I've read. I've been trying to learn to like beets- I like most vegetables, but for some reason, beets always have an oddly sweet dirt taste to me.
Anyway, I made this recipe, and it really wasn't bad. The beets still tasted like dirt, but they were far more palatable than they usually are right out of the can.
However, just like always, I did make a mistake with this recipe that really I should have caught- I used beets from a can for this, and I used cider vinegar instead of wine. Now, this probably would have been fine, if the can of beets that I used hadn't been PICKLED beets! The end result was definitely much higher on the sour side than the sweet side!
I do plan on making it again one day, using non-pickled beets. I am determined to like the purple buggers!
(Well, maybe not like them ... but at least be able to eat them without wrinkling my nose.)
ETA: As I have learned from the comments, there's a lot of different ways for me to try beets! Thanks!