RECIPE: REC: Sue's Beetroot Salad

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DH does not like beetroot, but he loves this salad that my friend Sue makes. The first time I made it, I followed the instructions that said to grate the raw beets, so I did. No gloves, no apron, no newspaper on the counter.

Never again.

It looked like Sweeney Todd's kitchen.

Now that I am canny enough to wear gloves and dice the beets, I decided to be super-efficient. I had bought some gorgeous-looking apricots at Costco, but they were a little under ripe, so I thought I'd try and turn them into jam. And because I was canning beets, I thought I would do the jam at the same time, so there would just be one batch of canning.

It did work, but I think the beets were a little undercooked and the apricot a little overcooked. Actually, the jam tasted terrible yesterday, but today it tasted just fine, so maybe I didn't over cook them.

Oh yes, I was going to give you a recipe:

Sue's Beetroot Salad

1 kg beetroot (about 2.2 lb)

1.5 lb onions (no, I don't know why she mixes units)

2 cups sugar

1 tsp salt

1 t mixed spice (I tried ground allspice this time, and it was nice)

3 Tbsp cornstarch

750 ml vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)

Dice the beetroot and onion (or grate them if you are better at it than I am). Put in a sauce pan, and add vinegar, sugar, spice and salt. Boil for 30 minutes ( a little longer if you have diced it). Thicken with cornstarch, mixed with a little water. Boil for 5 minutes. Bottle.

This made 3 pint jars and another small bowl full. I processed for 10 minutes in a water bath, but it never really lasts long, because DH loves it.

So I have 3 pints of beets and 5 small jars of jam, which fit just perfectly in my canning pan! I saved electricity and water, and this afternoon, I used the water to water my pot plants. smileys/smile.gif

 
That's my personal California attitude,.,,

In the community gardens I manage, Lana's plants are specifically prohibited. We don't allow potted plants, only those grown directly in the soil. smileys/wink.gif

 
It's nice with fish, or cold meat.

It's a very summery side dish, and because it's so sweet and tangy goes well with plain food. I had some cold roast turkey for dinner tonight and the beetroot went very well with that. Plain roast chicken would also be good.

 
Well, we are a little off pots at the moment.

We have problems growing vegetables because of the lack of sun and the fondness of the raccoons for our vegetables. They even dug up and ate the garlic we grew. But BIL gave us one of the prepacked Garden Kit pots, and DH planted tomatoes (at the correct time). We are blaming global warming - I have never seen such lush, tall tomatoes, but not a single fruit has set.

(PS The pots I watered were my indoor plants. I seem to have discolored my green thumb there as well. They are not doing well.)

 
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