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Old September 15, 2019   #7
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I've always thought of beets as a late spring, early summer crop. I guess I was wrong. Mine germinated in the spring, but the bulbs didn't start growing larger until late summer. The bulbs took so long to develop, I thought they would be stringy and woody inside. They were perfect inside after wiping the really ugly, sunburned skin off with a paper towell. Baking them at 400 degrees F for an hour, loosely wrapped in foil worked perfectly. I think the foil wrapping allowed them to produce steam inside the foil which loosened the skin. I also cut the root end off to flatten them so they would sit up straight inside the foil.


I was set up to bake two foil wrapped Irish potatoes for dinner. I thought I had a lot of wasted space on the baking tray, so I went to the garden and pulled six large beets as an experiment. We had air fried, thick pork chops, a large green salad; plus the baked potatoes for dinner. The beets were what we called Lagniappe (a little extra) in Louisiana.

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