My heart is beet-ing

Freshly dug up beetroots (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Hi Everyone, I’ve fallen in love, With beets.

Food can be like people sometimes – you see them often, but never pay attention. You can have a first encounter and find it to be unpleasant and vow to never go down that path again. And then circumstances can change; you can see them in a whole new light and fall in love. That’s what happened to me with beetroots.

The first time I had this rich-ruby-coloured vegetable, it was cooked very soft and mushy. It lacked personality. It just lay there on my plate, dead. I politely