Although it may be a very uninteresting title, it’s not an uninteresting food. I’ll be honest. The garden is in that stage right now where the only thing I’m harvesting is lettuce. Everyone knows how boring lettuce is. It’s just something for ranch, chicken, cheese, and croutons to stick to so you feel like you ate something healthy.
The one thing that I have picked (prematurely) is beets. They were very small, but Kristi was very excited and yanked one out of the ground to eat.
There a few cool things about beets.
- They taste like dirt. I just think it’s great that they don’t masquerade as anything but a vegetable that grows in dirt.
- You can put them in flipping anything. You can boil them and eat them like a potato. You can put them in salads (after the ranch but before the cheese), you can cut them up and eat them raw. When we picked ours, I threw it in a fruit smoothie. Greens and all. It was great and it made my smoothie purple. So that’s cool.
- They’re easy to grow. We planted ours in early spring and have done noting to them but some minor weeding. Kristi thinned them out once and planted the ones she plucked…which added about 10 feet to our row of beets.
Versatile and dirt flavored. That’s what I’m talking about.
As always, start small, think big, and stay healthy!