Cooking! With Beetroot!

Grated raw beetroot + watercress + one beaten egg w/ salt & pepper, in a crumpet ring on a medium heat

Madhur Jaffrey's Beetroot curry, which is an absolute triumph. And gorgeous! So pink.

Beeetroooooot luxury

(gluten free) Pasta with a pureed beetroot sauce, parsnip puree and grated goat's cheese. Served with chicken.

Good old beetroot soup - this time with orange. Try this recipe maybe? It's very close to the one I used (found it in a magazine)

If you want to feed beetroot to someone who doesn't like beetroot (who thinks they don't like beetroot) put it into a stew in the early stages of cooking. The colour will drain out as it cooks and they'll only spot the taste, gently sweet and interesting.

Layers of sliced ham, sliced roasted or boiled beetroot covered in oil & mustard, and leeks in cheese sauce. Bake for twenny minutes. Terrific.

Also cooking: pumpkin soup (ancient Blue Peter recipe from my childhood), quince & apple jelly. FEAST. Also pictured: community-pressed apple juice! Gone vinager-y now, but I'm pretty partial to vinegar tbh.

The water I boiled some ham in, some leftover chicken stock, and all the vegetables (roast potato, boiled cauli & carrot, a bit of leek & most of a whole beetroot) left over after Sunday dinner. Boil it, blend it, eat it.

To roast a beetroot, put it in a dish, with maybe half a centimetre of water. Cover with foil, and roast for an hour or so. Horseraddish added can be very pleasing.

Beetroot and chocolate cake. I don't recall the exact recipe; might add it later. It's reeeal nice though. I am eating it with yoghurt on for my breakfast.

I'll have to do another batch.

Chop up some sausages (mine were pork & chive/pork & tomato). Fry them in olive oil, add a sliced red onion. Put on water for easy-cook rice in a separate pan. Add chopped veg to the frying pan; I had small yellow courgettes and a variety of green beans from the garden (both sliced), as well as a small beetroot that I cubed. Once the rice is done, drain it and mix it in with the vegetable and sausage - the moist rice will bring up the browned bits of sausage stuck to the pan. Add a pinch of salt and pepper if you like, but it probably won't need it.

You will get a stained hand, as pictured, but that's okay.

WHAT am I gonna cook with all THESE??

2. Stir-fry: multiple vegetables, ginger, one whole "solo garlic" (WEIRD THINGS but I was forced to shop at Lidl), soy sauce. On noodles.

Boil your beetroot until tender. Also separately boil some vinegar (enough to cover your veg) with bay leaves, sugared ginger, cloves, cinnamon, peppercorns.. other spices that you like. Rub and peel your boiled beetroots; slice them. Bake a hot-washed jar for ten minutes or so.. let it cool a bit, fill it up with beetroot slices and pour the vinegar over it. Screw the lid on, let it cool fully, and bung it in a cupboard til you're hungry!