The internet yields many useful and everyday ideas for beet water, most of which take advantage of the tendency of beet juice to stain anything it touches: egg dye, facial toner, hair dye, colorant for various foods, a liquid addition to soups. And there was one weird one: Faux grape jelly. Bleh.
I decided to make a pasta salad, cooking the pasta in the beet water. I thought it would be pink, but not this pink! The pasta even gained a very slight, sweet taste of beets.
What I had on hand: white onion, green onion, diced olives, pepperoncinis. I almost added some fake sausage but was really into the flavors of the raw onions and didn't want that to be overshadowed. Pasta salad always has this distinct flavor and I realized this flavor is vinegar. So I added white wine vinegar (to taste) with olive oil and salt and pepper. As a pasta salad, it is middle of the road. Visually though, I am a very happy camper.
A completely non-related note to those who comment on the blog: I love it! And I want to respond to each post but I cannot, yet, figure out how. Sad. This is my blog and I don't know how to work it. Hopefully I'll make some breakthroughs soon.
4 comments:
middle of the road... jokes! it was delicious!
My favorite was the "happy camper" bit :). Keep it up, sis. Maybe I could do a guest post on how to make toast with peanut butter and honey. As long as I can borrow your dinosaur it'll be a hit!
Oh, and I've never used blogspot so I don't know how you're supposed to reply. Maybe you have to just add a reply like the rest of us nothin' spesh users?
I would love for you to do a guest post!
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