beets

• “The "red" from beets is really not the same hue as blood -- if you look at it, you'll see that it's purple.”

  Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing

• “Making pickled beets is so easy -- just drain them and place them in the sweet pickle juice after the pickles are one.”

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• “The best thing about an abundance of beets is being able to experiment.”

  Archive 2008-02-01

• “There's another way to describe borshch that doesn't contain beets; shchi ... although it normally wouldn't have tomatoes in it.”

  Cabbage Borscht

• “In her introduction to this recipe, Susana explains that it got its name from that fact that she got the beets from a religious festival float that was decorated with a tower of the village's largest fruits and vegetables, on Palm Sunday in San Antonio Castillo Velasco, near the important market town of Ocotlan.”

  Blessed Beet Salad: Ensalada de Betabel Bendito

• “If I find beets at the market this morning, Harvard beets is their destiny!”

  Swedish Beets ♥ | A Veggie Venture

• “I noticed my beets are a little less for the wear from too much rain.”

  Veggie Day Roundup 2009 « Fairegarden

• “In a true Red Flannel Hash, the beets are the stars, and they have no fear of being upstaged.”

  Hash Fiend 1, or Frying the Flannel

• “Especially not the commenter who said her husband calls beets the devil's vegetable ( "if you cut them, they bleed").”

  Tea & Cookies

• “Mr. Farmerie says he likes to have a pickled vegetable such as beets in the lineup, because they add a crunchy texture that is often lacking at Thanksgiving meals.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Spicing Up Thanksgiving

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