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Comment on Sweet Beets by Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:32:14 +0000

I actually loved eating pickled beets as a child. We traveled often. Seeing beets on the salad bar always made me comfortable and happy. I agree with Emira’s method for roasting them. I may add a drizzle of olive oil over the beets before they bake. You can also roast the carrots. Which get lovely and caremlized. Terrific tossed with some fresh mint, salt and pepper. A nice borscht is another way to prepare beets. I love the pink color on the spoon.

Comment on Sweet Beets by Tally

Tally — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:39:57 +0000

How about grated red beets? Mixed together with grated carrots and whatever is on hand, e.g. radish, apple… spiced up with cress and/or some sprouts, may be mixed with arugula.
Add good olive oil, salt and pepper. Or a bit of your favorite dressing.

I love it and have it quite frequently as a “go to work” lunch.

Hello from Hamburg
-not quite Dänemark but not far away-

ps. as teenagers we used to have competitions about how many danish hotdog with red polsers one can eat immediatly after crossing the border

Comment on Play Nice with Images by french toast girl

french toast girl — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:15:21 +0000

Hear, hear! Thanks, Alex, I’ve been meaning to write about this myself as I’ve just found another wave of my illustrations used for people’s avatars, myspace accounts, and websites, and not one of them requested permission. I’m still amazed at how many people don’t know (or consider) the first thing about copyright or the rights of the artist.

You’ve explained it well; I will definitely be pointing to your article. ♥

Comment on Where to? by Katrina

Katrina — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:17:58 +0000

Hello and thank you for turning me on to so many wonderful and enriching elements in this world. Last night I rented the Paper Clips movie and watched it with my two little kids. My daughter Ayla is only 7 and she was enthralled and loved it! My 6 year old son Talon fell asleep in my arms. I will share with you the other movie I watched last night, “Bella”. You MUST watch it! You will love it!

Comment on Sweet Beets by Hannie

Hannie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:26:47 +0000

I enjoyed your post about the Danish food. My parents in law are Dutchies who emigrated to Denmark a few years ago. Altough they are not to fond about the Danish eating habits they embraced Leverpostej, grillpolser and grovhakket. I can’t stand those. My sister in low really loves them; every time she visits her parents she brings loads of grovhakket to Holland and takes Dutch bread to Denmark because my in-laws don’t like the Rugbrød in Danmark. I enjoy the sandwiches with fish and Rødgrød med fløde. But I would prefer other more southern European cuisines.

Comment on Where to? by erinn

erinn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:40:31 +0000

Sometimes I feel as an adult that I have made my final choices as to which foods I like and which I don’t but I have recently ‘discovered’ other foods, i.e. carrots specifically. It is exciting in a way. Maybe I will try beets!

Comment on Sweet Beets by Emira

Emira — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:42:59 +0000

Alex, I can not recommend roasted beets enough. Best to get some nice wee ones from the farmer’s market and simply crank your oven (say 400ish?), wash and trim the beets (cut off tops and bottom nubbin) then wrap in a little tin foil purse with a crack of pepper and a pinch of sea salt. Roast until they start to smell divine (depending on the size of beet this is 25 mins to 40 mins), remove from the oven, let cool and then you can slip the peels off with your fingers. These are truly divine in a salad, I put them in a (tuna-less) nicose salad that I make in the summer and they’re just too yummy. I usually roast a bunch more than a need and keep them in their little foil purses in the fridge to pull out and add to summer salads all season long. You will love them. I promise as much.

Comment on Play Nice with Images by Hygge House

Hygge House — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:14:50 +0000

Kathryn that’s a great point and something I learned the hard way about 10 years ago. I had a really popular personal site, linked to another image using the other persons source (like ) and about a week later got an email saying that because I had pulled so much bandwidth, they were slapped with a $300 extra bill.

I ended up paying this and it was an expensive lesson to learn. I had no idea at the time about this sort of thing or using images either.

Comment on Sweet Beets by Felicia Sullivan - Author, Foodie, Rockstar » » Blog Archive » monday morning love (when you’re too tired to actually post)…

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:23:12 +0000

[...] This: Alex finds gastronomic joy in the beet. My last experience with beets involved a cake, a napkin at the ready and a good deal of face [...]

Comment on Play Nice with Images by laurel sauls

laurel sauls — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:07:19 +0000

A friend, who is a photographer, just recently explained this to me. I had no idea! I thought that as long as you linked to the artist, and didn’t try to claim it as your own, it was fine. I am guessing that there are a lot of people like me, who just didn’t understand the ramifications of it all. Now I search under “creative commons” pics on Flickr. Not as many choices, but at least then I am not inadvertently stealing someone else’s work! Yikes!