In most of my recent CSA boxes, I’ve been getting lots of beets. I love beets…especially already cooked ones on salads 
But to cook them myself?? Well, that was a definite first this summer. They are quite messy and can stain your hands, the cutting board, and the bowl. But I did a lot of research online and persevered. The easiest recipe I found was to trim the beets and put them in a bowl of water. You then put the bowl in the microwave covered with plastic wrap. After about 10 minutes the beets are cooked! You can play around with the time but you want to cook them until you can easily stick a fork in them. After that you can do with them as you wish…add them to a salad or eat them plain. Or what else? Do you have any recipes to share?
One recipe that I found was to make brownies…WITH the beets. Pretty cool, huh? I remember a friend making them for a picnic many years ago and when I Googled the idea, tons of recipes came up. Well, I found this one and went with it!
The recipe instructs you to grate the beets…Which was actually easy to do, although messy!
The color’s great right?
Here are the dry ingredients…
And the final batter poured into the pan.
They turned out really moist and easy to cut from the pan. I asked everyone who tried them to guess the secret ingredient and no one could. This one you could definitely give your kids and fool them
I’m headed to my parents’ house this weekend and hope to get some rest…and maybe a little shopping in
Hope you have a great weekend!
