What to do with all this beetroot?

[jim]

Slice it into thin matchsticks and sling it in a stir fry. Then add the leaf stalks and chiffonade the leaves before adding them for the last minute. Interesting colour changes occur ........

Love and Peace
Jim

[Annpan]

'chiffonade'? what does that mean?


MMM to me at first glance 'facing' looks like 'farting'

[Milims]

I can't misread that one Milims, I did try doing a really quick glimpse but only got Prague instead of Plague.

Maybe people see different things from others, I find that on the word borscht the b looks like an h.

So what does it say to you?

I read it as "Britains F*@king big slug plague"! I had images of huge slugs rampaging around the allotments!

[Millymollymandy]

But you do have effing big slugs in Britain! I wouldn't like to smell them fart though.

Sorry sorry sorry for taking over the beetroot thread with toilet humour.

But actually, I've been wanting to ask this rather delicate question but wasn't sure whether I could or not......

Has anyone noticed that if you eat a lot of beetroot that when it, er, comes out the other end it can be a rather alarming colour?

[Milims]

Has anyone noticed that if you eat a lot of beetroot that when it, er, comes out the other end it can be a rather alarming colour?

Funky purple poo! Although it does look rather like you've had an internal bleed!
I think the most alraming we had was when the kids were small they had a Thomas the Tank Engine birthday cake and their poo turned emerald green!

[Millymollymandy]

So it's not just me then - PHEW!!! I wasn't really worried, cos I've never seen blood that colour but it was quite amusing and a teensy bit alarming the first time. Funny how shop bought beetroot doesn't seem to do that to me, or maybe I am just eating twice as much as I would normally do!

[MKG]

Hmmm - looks very much like we need another forum section, then, just for addictive beetroot guzzlers - the Multi-coloured Merd Shop? The Purple Poo Club? The Shaded ... no, we won't go there.

Mike

[Millymollymandy]

*sniggers childishly*

[jim]

Chiffonade means rolling a bunch of leaves into a cigar shape and slicing across to produce long, thin, shreds of spinach/beetroot leaf/cabbage etc. Just an affectation to present greens really,

Love and Peace
Jim

[wulf]

In the community house I've recently moved into, we have a surfeit of beetroot at the moment - a good amount growing in the garden and they keep on getting delivered with the weekly veg box, so I've been considering this question myself.

Over the weekend, my wife made a delicious borsch (beetroot soup) and I cooked up some beetroot bread - I can dig up recipes for both if you would like.

Wulf

[Shirley]

I remember thinking one of my chickens had a huge problem as I'd found big patches of red 'blood' in the snow and saw bits on her feathers. Then I realised she'd eaten some beetroot. Phew - panic over.

[Millymollymandy]

That's funny Shirley!