The Beet Goes On

It has been a great year for beets and the harvest is on! Beets in raised beds, beets in rows and beet greens.

We love roasted beets with a pinch of salt and some fig balsamic vinegar. The natural sweetness of the beets is perfect with the salty tartness with a little assist on the sweetness from the fig . Awesome!

The beet greens have also been fabulous. We like to steam them solo or with some Swiss Chard and New Zealand Spinach (luckily the spinach has stayed sweet and not bolted even through the recent hot spell). We add a little butter and oil, a bit of salt and/or herb and voilà. Sometimes we heat it up with some hot red pepper flakes and the balsamic is always excellent on steamed garden greens.

These beets are like dessert…everything is everything and red is cool.