keegs
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Do you toss the greens and just go for the beets or do you cook up the greens too? I usually go for the greens as well ... just boil 'm .. and maybe put some butter and lemmon on.
Do You Do Beet Greens?
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Egon
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Don't forget the Garlic!:thumbsup:
magicheater
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Exactly but steam the greens please! Having garlic scapes as I write.
Bird
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When I was a kid, we ate turnip greens, poke, and spinach. But when my wife and I had a garden, we always had turnips and turnip greens and like those greens enough that we never bothered with any others. Our nearst neighbors (who quickly became our best friends) always had collards in their garden, too, and we've eaten and enjoyed them. However, both those neighbors and ourselves, always raised beets. They only wanted their beets pickled, and while we like pickled beets occasionally, we preferred our beets hot, buttered and peppered instead of pickled. But neither of us bothered with the beet greens until we were talking about it one day and the neighbor lady cooked up a batch of beet greens for supper that night. She decided she didn't care for them because "they taste too much like spinach" and she didn't care for spinach. Yep, I agree that they tasted very much like spinach, but since I DO like spinach, I thought the beet greens were very good.
Of course we boiled the greens instead of steaming them, and when I put them on my plate to eat, I like to add a teaspoonful of pickle juice. And I don't care whether it's from dill pickles, sweet pickles, or bread & butter pickles.
Of course we boiled the greens instead of steaming them, and when I put them on my plate to eat, I like to add a teaspoonful of pickle juice. And I don't care whether it's from dill pickles, sweet pickles, or bread & butter pickles.
Thanks all...I always like reading your posts Bird.
I agree, beet greens do taste like spinach and I too like spinach as well but the wife's not all that crazy about it (or the beet greens) so I was on my own there.
I used the tops off about 8 smallish (little bigger than a golf ball) size beets. I discarded some of the less desireable looking leaves and broke apart the remainder. That went into the pot with about a cup of water with some garlic, olive oil and butter.
It came out OK but I think I used too much water. Next time I'm going to try a quarter cup since the leaves contain a fair amount of water on their own.
The Italians like to saute` their greens. I think I'm going to give that a try too...maybe stirred in with some small rigatoni and a few sliced up Italian sausuages...some Italian red pepper...and a little Romano cheese sprinkled on top at the finish.....mmmm ...oh...yeah.
I agree, beet greens do taste like spinach and I too like spinach as well but the wife's not all that crazy about it (or the beet greens) so I was on my own there.
I used the tops off about 8 smallish (little bigger than a golf ball) size beets. I discarded some of the less desireable looking leaves and broke apart the remainder. That went into the pot with about a cup of water with some garlic, olive oil and butter.
It came out OK but I think I used too much water. Next time I'm going to try a quarter cup since the leaves contain a fair amount of water on their own.
The Italians like to saute` their greens. I think I'm going to give that a try too...maybe stirred in with some small rigatoni and a few sliced up Italian sausuages...some Italian red pepper...and a little Romano cheese sprinkled on top at the finish.....mmmm ...oh...yeah.
Bird
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And here I haven't had breakfast yet and you're making me hungry.
Egon
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"Hungry -- no Breakfast"
That's two of us.
Butter and peppered greens make my mouth water.:thumbsup:
Fried Beet Greens with Bacon anyone?
That's two of us.
Butter and peppered greens make my mouth water.:thumbsup:
Fried Beet Greens with Bacon anyone?
Ggrower
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Egon
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Now I'm thinking of Borsch!:thumbsup:
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crash325
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Never heard of that = What is it?
Love greens of all types - boil them with a little salt & pepper, add some bacon if you have it, sprinkle on some vinegar any you are good to go.
In this part of the world we have a lot of "Pig Weed", now called "Careless Weed". It is good in salad, as a seasoning, and cooked like most other greens.
Young quail love it as do the cotton tails. Maybe just a rumor but have heard that its good for your libido as well. :laughing: Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents. :laughing:
Last year was so dry that the pig weed didn't even grow.
Egon
Epic Contributor
Borsch = Soup
Many different recipes.:thumbsup:
Many different recipes.:thumbsup:
Bird
Rest in Peace
I don't know anything about the pigweed, but I grew up eating Poke, some call it Poke Salat. And when I was doing a gas leakage survey on the Pennsylvania/New York border in 1993, I found a lot of people had Poke growing in their flower beds as an ornamental, but never found anyone up there who had eaten it.
Ggrower
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Beets in the picture are Detroit dark red, planted in the fall under small plastic hoop greenhouse and picked in the spring. We are in Va.
Larry Caldwell
Super Member
Some beets are bred for nothing but greens, and they call it Swiss chard. It's a good winter garden vegetable, staying green until hard freeze.
