Cooking Beets

[Durgan]

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?JJXAC 21 June 2012 Cooking Beets
Cooking beets with no bleeding. Cut tops off above the beet, don’t cut the tail off, rinse soil off, cook boil or steam no difference, and remove the skin after cooling in cold water. Absolutely no bleeding or mess. Use the tops like any other green. They are probably the best green in the garden.

[gregorach]

I usually roast them. Delicious!

[Durgan]

I also roast along with the baked potato in a Dutch oven (closed porcelain dish in the oven). The beet whole without cutting any parts to have no bleeding.Here is what prompted the post. Today, I was giving a lady next door some beets, and in the general conversation, I asked how she cooked them.She peeled them raw and boiled, and didn't know the greens were edible. Needless to say, I was astonished.

[gregorach]

Yeah, that would certainly be the hard (and messy) way to go about it...

[oldjerry]

Twist the tops instead of cutting,and they won't bleed so readily.