December 07, 2009
beet arthur
i'm often thankful for the neighbourhood i live in. i'm wedged between chinatown and kensington market so i've always got fresh goodies near by and the late fall/early winter is quickly becoming my favourite produce season! i bought three kinds of beets this week (who knew, right?). i roasted them all for awhile, ate a few burning hot chunks and threw the rest in with my brine mixture (getting better by the pickle, thanks for asking). the candy cane beet has weird colours like, uh, a candy cane and the golden one is a completely different taste than the classic purple guy. next up: local squash and apple soup. boom.
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The produce joint at St. Andrew & Kensington has candycane beets right now. Like the one in your photo, they are sort of mottled pink. Occasionally they have a serious swirl of pink and white. The colour will be lost after pickling though.
ha, that's the market i got them from. they had a surprisingly different taste and actually retained the mottled pink colour in the middle after pickling. well... only the big chunks.
om nomm!
beets are the food of the slavic gods!
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