AKICILJ: the bitter green edition

[mrissa]

timprov has already done the grocery shopping this morning, because he is efficient like that, and he has returned home with beets. Red beets! Golden beets! We have beets. We also have plans for beets.

What we do not have plans for, but have quantities of anyway, is beet greens. They come attached to the beets. They are huge and luxurious and occupying more of our fridge than I really expected.

Does anybody know of anything nice that can be done with beet greens? My mother is not fond of this type of green, so my first line of culinary inquiry is not helping this time around. I like recipes, but I also like "cook 'em for awhile with some of this and some of that" level of specificity--does not have to be measured in tablespoons. (Or coffee spoons. Or T.S. Eliot.) (Bonus points for T.S. Eliot, though.)

Comments

[pameladean]

I'd cook them with black-eyed peas, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and maybe a pinch of sugar.

P.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

I was hoping someone would mention black-eyed peas.

Mris, you're making me jealous.

Another idea: wilt those greens whole and serve fish over the leaves. Pretty!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One of the disadvantages of having timprov do the grocery shopping this early is that the fish counter was not yet open, so we have no fish.

I suppose we could go get fish tomorrow or something, if we were feeling really motivated.