Beet narrative <g>, with a couple of beet questions.

Last night in chat, I mentioned that I didn't think I'd ever had beets
except for pickled ones in a green salad. Christine demanded <g> that if
I were to get some, I had to get them at a farmer's market, and since I
said I didn't have one real near, she linked me to a California farmer's
market site that located one six miles from me (in Burbank CA). Thanks
again for that, CD.

Damnably, I woke up at about seven this morning and couldn't go back to
sleep, so I ended up at the farmer's market at eight. I don't do
mornings, so I was a little grumpy. Still, I don't remember biting
anyone.

I got one bunch of beets for a dollar. I don't know if they're good beets
or bad beets or average beets. You tell me. There were two vendors with
beets, and they all looked about the same.

http://blinkynet.net/stuff/beets1.jpg

Anyway, I also got a couple beef tamales to take home and nuke for
breakfast. Without those, my gasoline consumption for going to the
farmer's market would have cost more than what I bought there.

This afternoon, while the beets were boiling and I was cleaning the
kitchen I steamed the leaves and ate them with some butter and pepper.
They were quite tasty. Does anybody use vinegar on them, as one might
with cooked spinach? The stems are in the fridge, waiting to be
salad. The roots wil be reheated with dinner, tonight.

Questions: The beet page I looked at earlier said to leave an inch or a
bit more of stems on the roots for boiling, as well as the tail of the
root. The tail fell off when I was sliding the root's peel off (came
right off; they were done), so that was kind of moot; but why the
instruction to leave attached the inch of stem cluster? (I ended up
cutting off the cooked stem stubs and eating them while I was peeling the
roots.)


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