Beets—The Sweetest Vegetable In The Garden
Grandma loved her beets. She loved growing them. Boiling them. And, making borscht soup with them. We enjoyed them as well. But beets are not everyone’s favorite. Some say it’s too red, or too bland in soup by itself or too earthy. All maybe true. Nonetheless the vegetable became one of our household favorites, even though we didn’t always prepare the beets Grandma’s style. Like many “family favorites”, it seems as though you grow up with them or know them best through friends. Eggplant for example, was a vegetable I first tasted at the home of Italian friends when they served eggplant Parmigiana; but I never ate one at my own home. Beets were the same for my friends. Red beet Borscht was a soup only available at my home, I was told.