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ROASTED BEETS RULE! (Peel them after they cook; it's easier)
Just oven bake them like you would a potatatoes, i.e. wrapped in foil.

You could make a wonderful romaine salad--very safe with the portabellas & the beets. Baby spinach is great wilted. Maybe a warm beet & baby spinach side dish with your favourite herbs? Romaine & portabella mushroom salad? With sweet potatoes, the colours would be opulent--the deep green, the red/purple, and the earthy brown. You could dress those beets up with a balsalmic vinegar/vinaigrette or whip up something with dijon. Maple dijon? Those natural sugars seem to totally want to carmelize & actually don't really need much doctoring. Instructions in depth for roasting beets are on the recipe board.

You could also do a "mock tomato" sauce (see recipe index) with the carrots, beets & celery.

Truthfully, I'd keep it more or less simple--the ingredients speak for themselves alone!

I know that's a boring response. Roasted pureed beets are outstanding as a sauce/dressing/gravy type of thing. I'd be a "weirdo" and puree the roasted beets and put that on my lettuce with the mushrooms & spinach puree with balsalmic & whatever herbs I'm in the mood for & also dunk sweet potatoe fries in them. Portabella mushrooms have that mock beefiness about them to make them either steak-like or burger like! Hmmm...I bet sweet potatoe whipped with beet would be really yummy in a retro-comfort food sort of way.

Just had another flash thought--grate the cooked beets &/or carrots and have a fabulous confetti kind of sunburst side/topping??? Add your favourite kind of acidity. Hey! I'd just toss it on top of my romaine & splash with some kind of vinaigrette!

Kate.

Edited by Wind (01/16/06 03:34 PM)

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