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Saturday, May 10, 2008

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Hannah

Plain beets are gross!

Here's a yummy beet recipe:

4 small - medium sized beets
1 medium sized shallot (can do without this if you don't have or want shallots)
balsamic vinegar
extra virgin olive oil
salt
pepper
1-2 cloves garlic (depends on how much you love garlic)

Cut greens off beets if they're still attached.
Cover beets with water and boil partially covered for 40 minutes.
Let cool a bit.
Peel off skin and chop off tops.
Roughly chop the beets in smallish pieces.
Slice the shallots thinly.
Put beets and shallots in a glass bowl (will stain plastic).
Pour equal parts olive oil and balsamic vinegar over them. I'm not sure how much of each I use, but it's probably between 1/8 and 1/4 cup.
Salt and pepper to taste.
Crush garlic and add about 1 hour before you eat the beets. You can also add the garlic right when you make them, but if you wait a day or two to eat them, the flavor will just be a bit strong. I personally love it that way, though.
Mix it all up.
Serve cold.
Yum!!

Adamn

Dawn came back from Germany about 1 1/2 years ago talking about beets and gluweihn (I have no idea if that's how you spell it). Red beets / beetroot is nasty - try to find the white/yellow variety and chop it up in a salad. This doesn't appear to bleed. Gluweihn is hot strong mulled alcoholic wine drunk by odd Swiss and German people in the winter-time, and is much more acceptable.. but oddly sticky, too.

For the experimental travel bit, I continued looking and was intrigued by the Ariadne's thread concept.. on a variant of that, here's Adam's 5 nature places he liked to visit when he lived in Rochester (bet you didn't know I used to wander off to nature places frequently, did you?) Plus the relative merits of each.. in no particular order
1) Mendon ponds park - bring some birdseed, walk on the nature trails, and stand still with the food in your hand - birds will come land and eat the food from your hand (I've never seen this anywhere else)
2) Washington Grove park - somehow you feel in the middle of a vast wilderness in the middle of downtown rochester?
3) Maplewood Park / Lower Falls - the park is semi-boring (but lots of rose bushes) - but take the trail to lower falls past the 'warning! flood water approaching if alarm sounds!' sign - you can get right next to the falls - very impressive
4) Bay Creek Paddling Center - rent a kayak (this is the only one that costs money) and paddle for miles into Irondequoit Creek - get completely lost then try to get back..
5) Chimney Bluffs at Sodus Bay - not really Rochester (about 1 1/2 hour drive) but well worth it - weird, Dover-like 200-foot sand skyscrapers you can try and climb (until someone yells at you) or just walk next too - Alyse first told me about these, incidentally. Huge tracts of land.

monkeydrew

put beets on your hamburger. mmmm delicious!

shan

I so didn't remember doing that! But yes, many evening trips on random exits. I seem to remember a tradition of buying hot dogs at the truck stops.

Good times:)

Good luck with beets. I think they look scary too. And I remember going on a weird diet in college that involved eating beets and the promise of losing 10 pounds in a week. Yes I was that niave. But anyway- I couldn't do it! I thought beets were pretty gag worthy. I ended up plugging my nose and gulping them down, because letting scary magenta slime touch my mouth just isn't my thing.

I wish you luck though;)

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