Can I do a beets dauphinoise with mustard and smoked mackerel?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Looking at Nigel's potato dauphinoise with smoked mackerel, could I do that with orange beets? Worth a try?

Hmm, did it. It tasted ok, but the sweetness of the beets was a bit startling, I thought. (DH liked it fine.)

I've got to find other recipes for beets. Oh, and more recipes for smoked fish, which are v appealing all of a sudden.

NQC you can cook for me. That sounds like my kind of meal. DP says that my mackerel-based dishes are the stuff of his nightmares - not one of the cognoscenti!

for supper tonight we had delicious warm salad:
roast beetroot / roast garlic / watercress / capers / red onion / / flaked smoked mackerel / horseradishy vinagerette....
truly delicious. have also made it with mustardy dressing and goats cheese instead of fish.

Would it be worth mixing the beets with swede to cut the sweetness?

How about a beet version of cheese & potato pie - I use 2/3rds potatoe 1/3rd sweet potatoe so substitute the sweetpotato with the beet?

No, I'm not cooking for you, I'm eating at controlfreaky2's house, I'm afraid! Capers! Beetroot! Garlic! Mackerel! Was that from a recipe?

(My DH did like it, actually, but he likes anything with cream in it, I think.)

My default dishes with beets are either:

1. mix with other root veg (celeriac, parsnip, sweet potato) and make latkes. This is v good, but hard work.

2. roast with other root veg ... only beetroot takes forever and we end up not using it as it gets forgotten and burnt to death. Whoops.

I just boil it & serve it hot as a veg

Hmm. I never do that with any veg. Oh, sweetcorn. But that's it. Everything else gets put into things.

I wonder if I could stir-fry beets. Or put them in a curry?

from my clever little head nqc!
roasting is definitely the way to go with beetroot... concentrates the flavour and gives it a lovely caramelly edge.....

from my clever little head nqc!
roasting is definitely the way to go with beetroot... concentrates the flavour and gives it a lovely caramelly edge.....

from my clever little head nqc!
roasting is definitely the way to go with beetroot... concentrates the flavour and gives it a lovely caramelly edge.....

sorry.