Got Beets?

This post has nothing to do with books, marketing, keyword articles, search engine optimization or any of the usual topics - in fact it is about beets.

When I think of it, SKinney and I have a very untraditional life. I work and market our businesses because he doesn't enjoy anything to do with sales or customer relations and he does the shopping, the housework, the laundry, the errands, the mail getting and sending, correspondence, web design and other things like that.

In most households, one or both partners work; however the lionsshare of the housekeeping and basically house running falls on the woman - I know, because I used to be that woman. However, I never liked shopping for groceries, planning meals , cleaning house, blah blah blah and now, I have to admit, I love my life! SKinney loves food shopping, he seriously enjoys housework (No, I don't know what planet he is really from) and he loves cooking more than Rachel Ray and that's cool we both get to do what we love and stay home with our kids which is just perfect. Everyone wins.

Last week he was at the store and on a whim he bought beets.
Why beets? We have never eaten them and no one walks around saying, "Golly I'd love a big brimmin' bowl of beets". Turns out he got all enamored with the sale tag and wound up buying beets.
They were dirty, icky looking things and so we both looking at them on the counter saying, "Well, what do you do with them?".

The first thought was borscht (beet soup) and then we decided that sounded just gross. So we started looking for recipes and you know we only found three main ways that people make beets....

1-boiled
2-boiled and stuffed in a salad
3-boiled and made into borscht

Then we ran across this:

Hot Spicy Shredded Beets Recipe

Ingredients
2 pounds beets, trimmed, peeled, and coarsely grated
1/2 cup coarsely grated onion
3 Tbsp butter or margarine
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup dry red wine
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper

Instructions
Simmer all ingredients, covered, 25 to 30 minutes until beets are tender and flavors well blended.
Stir once or twice during cooking.

Yield: 4 servings

Per serving: 155 calories, 25 mg cholesterol, 475 mg sodium

Credits
Recipe from: The New Doubleday Cookbook by Jean Anderson & Elaine Hanna (Doubleday)

Anyway we thought it was so good we wanted to share it!
It may sound weird - but it's super good on veggie burgers!
Even our kids loved it!

Oh yeah, beets dye your tongue red for hours -Look!