Julie Bindel

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Has she really blocked JKR or was that a joke on Twitter?

And your poo 😳

I was once convinced I had bowel cancer after eating beetroot.

You can also get white beetroot.

They all look quite pretty together.

Boiledbeetle · Yesterday 18:22

I love beetroot straight out of the pan after cooking. It's rather delicious whilst still warm!

It's also very nice grated raw into a mixed salad. And I'm definitely going to try this at some point:

https://twitter.com/jkchatham/status/1783256382273138874

Is it too late to get seeds and have a bash at growing them?

I once had a set of students who were particularly [how can I say this] troublesome and so I'd often have to throw in thinking bombs as early as possible to try and occupy their minds [so that they didn't steal anything] one day I asked them if they had all had their beetroot that morning. Took them all morning, quizzing me, working it out, and through alot of personal denial to work out that sugar is made from beetroot and all this time, they never knew. By the end of the day they were googling how to make pink sugar.

If you get carrots, beetroot, and onions, and grate them or chop them finely, and cover in vinegar not only do you have a lovely pickle mix to use whenever needed, it lasts MONTHS in the fridge and once you use half of it you can just keep topping it up with fresh carrots and beets and keep it going all spring and summer. Just a teaspoon on the side of salads takes the salad up a notch. Or in a potato salad. Yum yum yum.

No you can sow beetroots pretty much until mid summer. I sow a few into modules and then plant the modules out in the spring [put my first lot in under a cloche last week], and once the first batch are in, I'll resow and do that again around 4-5 times throughout the summer. They can be left in the ground until they are needed.

I just dug some up that were sown last autumn, and left all winter. They are a very reliable crop.

Another not well known thing about beetroot is that if you leave them in the ground long enough, they will flower in the summer of their second year. The stems grow taller than we humans are [so need staking], and loads of tiny flowers will bloom on downward hanging stems, and the scent of those flowers is one of the best flower scents I've ever known.

If you leave 3 to go to seed, or even 2, you will get enough seeds to last probably the rest of your life, or to share with many, many other people, and they will still be viable if kept cool for around 15 years. So saving from 2-3 beetroots every decade is enough to keep you in beets forever.

I got as far as cold soup

Aren't they pretty 😍

I want beetroot now.

In truth I'd settle for anything as my online food shopping has failed to arrive and Sainsbury's help line seems to have stopped working!

I'll have starved to death by lunchtime!!

😱 I'd forgotten about that, probably due to shock at the pee colour. I must have worked out the problem before I got around to the bowel movement!

You must have some back up Tunnocks somewhere, Boiled!

If JKR is reading this thread, surely she has changed her mind about beetroot by now!

ooh good call! I've got some caramel logs. And 48 creme eggs! So I may not starve but I will be swinging from the lampshades by bed time!

Packs bag to come live at your house whilst imagining freshly picked beetroot salads all summer.

Think of me as a free on site food tester.

And 48 creme eggs!

I'd marvel at your restraint at not having eaten them all, but Cadbury's ruined creme eggs when they stopped making them with Dairy Milk. The bastards.

I will be swinging from the lampshades by bed time!

Woohoo!

Beetroot is a gift from the gods.
Luckily I believe in freedom of speech or I’d be cancelling the lot of em!!!

Or, accepted that she will not acclimate to the taste of geosmin and shares this trait with many others.

Like the people who taste soap when they eat leaf coriander, it's plausibly genetic.

As many as one in five people says that coriander has a soapy taste. This is likely to be due to a super-sensitivity to chemicals called aldehydes, which are present in coriander and are also used to perfume soaps and detergents.
In 2012, researchers in California analysed the DNA of over 14,000 people, identifying two genetic variants associated with the soapy taste, the most common of which is a gene coding for an odour receptor tailored to sniff out aldehydes.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-does-coriander-taste-like-soap-to-some-people

Love beetroot.

I was brought up in Australia. Years ago on a camping trip my dad had to remove a snake from our tent which he did very carefully with a stick at arms length. Later that day my mother saw red dripping down his thigh and asked quite casually; 'Did that snake bite you?' Cue father running around hysterically for a few moments then stopping, touching the red and licking it. He came back quietly to tell us it was just pickled beetroot juice.

Now... most Australians know the very last thing you do when bitten by a snake is to run hysterically. But I guess panic set in.

Anyway- I see beetroot crisps and raise you the classic Australian burger which usually contains a slice of pickled beetroot or pineapple- or with me both at the same time. Bliss.

I love beetroot crisps.
I enjoy a salad of poached beetroot with goats cheese, rocket and green beans with vinaigrette

Pickled beetroot is an abomination unto the Lord and the woman who ate pickled beetroot sandwiches every day near me in an open plan office for years is damned to hell

Non.

Right that's it. I'm team beetroot*, sorry JKR.

subject to change after I've actually tried the bloody* things.

** not gonna lie, curious about wee turning red.

<waits to see what all those asterisks are going to do to the formatting>

What a great thread. Very informative about beetroot and about why people may not like them.

Has anyone had beetroot in balsamic vinegar? My Dad makes it in the summer and it's lovely on its own or in salads.

I once grew them on an allotment and that summer we had a lot of rain followed by a deer invasion. The deer left a load of half munched beetroot in their wake. What did this mean?
They loved them but couldn't eat a whole one?

Thanks for your growing tips@AlisonDonut .Do you happen to have a picture of a second year beetroot in flower? I will try that pickle this year.