Can’t Beat Them Beets

Fine, I’ll admit it. I am not a big fan of beets. At all. I had a very traumatic borsht incident as a child. Go ahead and laugh, but just keep the borsht very, very far away from me, okay?

I know it’s getting close to the season for them, but they just keep showing up at an alarming rate. I have received four, FOUR!, beet recipes in my inbox in the last week. And while I was checking out some of my favorite food blogs, there they were again.

Beet gnocchi, of all things, from La Tartine Gourmande. I’ve seen many a beet gnocchi recipe (complete with Play-doh pink dough pics), but her gorgeous pictures somehow made it seem perfectly natural, and even rather chic, to eat hot pink pasta with a pistachio, arugula, and basil pesto.

Picture from La Tartine Gourmande

And the so-very-lovely Meeta of What’s For Lunch, Honey? has a Baked Beetroot with Apple Horseradish Dip that I could definitely handle.

Picture from What’s For Lunch, Honey?

Perhaps even the Roasted Beet Salad from Closet Cooking is doable, but that might be the generous use of bleu cheese. Everything is better with bleu cheese!

I found some very interesting beet recipes in the comments for the Gluten-Free Girl’s blog post this week on, you guessed it, beets! Beet pesto, beet risotto, and beets over rice with cilantro and chili.

How about it? Do you have any beet recipes for me?