I have, at this very moment, no less than 4 different salads in my refrigerator. They may not be assembled, but the ingredients are there, ready and waiting to be sliced, diced and ricocheted into my mouth. Today's salad: the humble beet salad.
If you have a good salad in your life, anything is possible. No doubt you think I'm being dramatic, but I'm not. I'm being very, very serious.
Salad has fibre which makes you poop. Nothing is possible if you haven't pooped for a week. Nothing. You will be amazed at how much more accomplished you are if you eat salad. Eat a salad and you'll be doing complex math equations while climbing Mt. Everest in no time.
Lettuce all on its own doesn't have that much fibre. It's everything else you put in the salad that does. The salad I'm talking about today is a prime example of an "anything is possible" salad.
It's full of fibre, colour, flavour and fun. I made up the "fun" part. Fun is not an ingredient in this salad. But it could be if you made it while tap dancing as someone tickles you.
DROPSHOT
You won't get pretty flowers with it, but the ferny greenery of Dropshot (an herb in the Marigold family), tastes exactly like, IDENTICAL TO, black jellybeans.the ferny greenery of Dropshot (an herb in the Marigold family), tastes exactly like, IDENTICAL TO, black jellybeans.
Easy Beet Salad
There are many reasons to love this salad. First of all because it's easy and second of all because it's delicious. What more do you want in a salad? What more do you want in any food? What more do you want in life?!
By the way, if you're interested, you can make beautiful tie-dye beets like this by combining yellow and red beets in a tin foil packet while you roast them.
The dressing for this salad is one I keep in my refrigerator pretty much all the time because it tastes great on almost anything. Roasted red peppers for example. Or fingertips.
Roasted Beet Salad with Goat Cheese
Ingredients
Salad
- 2 roasted beets
- Fresh baby greens
- Beet greens
- Goats cheese
- Nuts of choice (I use regular or candied pecans)
Dressing
- ¼ cup balsamic vinegar
- ¾ cup olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon dijon mustard
- honey to taste (start with 1 Tablespoon and build from that)
- salt & pepper
Instructions
BEETS
- Cut tops off of the beets and wrap in 2 layers of tin foil. Roast in 400 ºF (200 ºC) oven until tender.
- In general, average sized beets take around 45 minutes).
- Remove beets from the oven and allow to cool enough to handle. Wrap in a cloth or paper towel and slip skins off.
- Refrigerate beets until cold.
DRESSING
- Add all the ingredients except the oil to a bowl.
- Whisk together.
- Slowly whisk in olive oil. Add salt and pepper. Taste. Add more honey if you'd like.
Assemble
Fill bowl with torn greens. Add sliced or quartered beets, as much crumbled goat's cheese as you'd like and pecans. Drizzle with dressing.
Notes
If you have them on hand you can also add: shredded carrots and diced apples
It's not a triple bypass. It's a salad.
You make the salad, it'll make the poop.
I do this with spinach and I add some dill into the dressing. Yummy!
Just started a delivery program with a local farm, and there are lots of beets. This is great, thanks.
If you like beet salad then this variation is for you :)
is healthy, easy and cool!
(because the yogurt is good for you)
http://insimoneskitchen.com/pantzarosalata-beetroot-greek-way/
enjoy!
Thx Eva. I'll have a look! ~ karen
Am not making things up. I could go into more detail, but the ONLY thing that stops me is that it would officially require starting a whole new Thread and I just know someone would object to the Titles I would come up with. Like "Pondering One's Poop" and "The Foibles of Fibre". I think I already went too far for some.
I'll just shut up now and go buy some beets, I might even plant some.
Cool! I’d follow that!
My kids think beet poop is fantastic. And I think the fact that all three of my children eat beets is fantastic. This is one of my favorite salads. Tonight I made a similar one, but instead of beets, I used raw rhubarb. And the vinaigrette had orange juice and zest. Good stuff.
Rhubarb salad? I think I need more information Mindy. Immediately. IMMEDIATELY. Sorry to yell but I'm worked up now. ~ karen
My sister got me the Williams Sonoma, Cooking From The Farmer's Market cookbook for Christmas this last year. I can't eat my way through it fast enough. Lucky for you, I found the recipe online, 'cause I'm way too lazy to type out a recipe unless it's for a blog post. :) I actually did take photos, and will probably post it, 'cause it was pretty darn tasty. And a fun way to eat rhubarb, which I love any old way you put it in front of me.
Here's the link: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/shaved-rhubarb-salad-with-almonds-and-cheese.html
Enjoy!
GREAT! Thanks. ~ karen
Anything but beets! Let me rephrase that - I don't care for beets. I do love goat cheese and make a salad with field greens, goat cheese, toasted sliced almonds and raisins. I use my homemade balsamic vinaigrette or just balsamic vinegar and olive oil. I could eat that every day. Wait a minute, during the summer, I do!
Gasp. GASP! So beets are your brussells sprouts? Intersting. ~ karen
Yup, and I love Brussels sprouts!!! Roasted, with a mist of olive oil, salt, pepper and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Mmmmm....
As my father like to say, "That's why there is chocolate and vanilla." Our response was alway, "And strawberry!"
My mother's opinion on most of life's problems was that you probably just needed to eat some beets. Unfortunately, the only beets she ever had around were pickled ones, which she loved, and I've always disliked anything sour tasting, so the vinegar smell was a complete turn off. I'm willing to try them, now that I'm old enough that if it kills me, no one will think it's a tragedy, and especially as I can now get my own beets that aren't pickled in vinegar, but I'm going to have to find some other dressing than one based with vinegar. Do you have any suggestions of what else might go well with the salad as a dressing?
Well, I'm not sure Lazy. I think it needs the touch of sweetness that the honey adds, so try one of your favourite dressings that has a slight sweetness to it. ~ karen!
Chips also make you poop.
The required amount to achieve the necessary amount of fibre is half a bag of the Kettles Crunchy Cut - Sea Salt.
Just sayin.
You made that up. You're making things up. ~ karen
It's great to see no topic is taboo here! And you provide printable recipes formats. What more could a girl ask for? Oh yeah, a good salad and dressing recipe.
I recently searched for a good balsamic vinaigrette recipe to have dressing to keep on hand, and yours looks like just the ticket. (I am trying to buy fewer and fewer "pre-made" foods these days.) While I didn't get beets into the garden this spring, I have an abundance of swiss chard, which when sauteed/steamed is great with a bit of this type of dressing drizzled over it.
Do you think this dressing would be good on shredded raw cabbage, as in a kind of marinated cole slaw? I am eating out of the garden this year, and trying to vary how I prepare my various green foods.
It'd probably be great with raw cabbage! ~ karen
Beets, bikinis and bowels..... but not boobs. Close to all needed references us guys need. LOL
If you go back a few posts you'll fine some boobs if you like. ~ karen!
Yum!..definitely a salad for me!
It's a good stinkin' salad! ~ karen
When the kids were young, we went down to the east coast on a camping trip. I pulled up lots and lots of fresh beets from the garden to take with us, and cooked them and the greens over a Coleman stove at our campsites for almost every supper. The kids, now grown up, still remember, the daily feast of beets from that long ago trip.
Ohhhh. I LOVE beet salad. Raw beet salad is also yummy!
Lettuce turnip the beet! ;p
Still love that little phrase, lol. ~ karen!
My husband doesn't like goat cheese. I really I had known this before we were married...
I forgot the word wish. I'm sure you got that. ;)
I did get that. :) ~ karen
Ew, beets = gross. For me, they're only good for a beautiful dye.
Being of Polish descent, how is it I didn't know beets were so beneficial that way? I don't eat them often as my fella doesn't care for them. Roasted beets sound wonderful...and I love pink, lol.
Like that fancy smancy gold flatware!
Thanks Melissa! I throw it in the dishwasher so it'll probably be a mess by the fall, but for now it looks great, lol. ~ karen!
Ok Karen, what would happen if a person were to eat beets and asparagus at the same meal? ER disaster no doubt. Love the chicken stories, my daughter has chickens and ducks and when I visit I tell them stories of their friends Up North.
You took the word "asparagus" right outta my mouth! It never ceases to amaze me how quickly it works its way through one's system. Never noticed the beet effect but the potential combination might be orange?
Oh! Well then, let me think of something interesting to tell them. Um .. well, Cheez Whiz got a sore leg yesterday and was limping around but she seems to be O.K. today. Cuddles laid another egg without a shell and Walnut is still stupid. So there you go. ~ karen!
I close my eyes, hold my nostrils and swallow beet juice when necessary, for my blood count's sake, but.... Ain't nobody getting me to eat beets. Not even for a million dollars (and that's saying a lot when you're not rolling in $$$$$$).
Nevertheless... cute salad. :-D
I don't like beets but that salad sure does look tasty. Maybe I could substitute something else for the beets.
And I agree with Tigersmom, that silverware is beautiful!