Barb wrote:

> Tomorrow may be Pickled Boiled Dirt Chunk-making day at Dom
> Schallerovych. I paid $6 for 3 bunches (maybe 6-7 per bunch) of beets.
> If I get two pints of PBDC out of them, I'll feel lucky. Steep prices <
> last year those would have been dollar bunches.
>
> AFAIC the only edible part of it are the tops. I cooked them down and
> am curious to know if there's anything one might do with them besides
> cooking them and eating them like spinach. Whaddaya think?

I put beet greens into a gumbo z'herbes as part of our Christmas dinner last
year. It tasted great, but turned the gumbo purple.


> While I was thinking about this post, I wondered about the feasibility
> of cream of spinach (or beet greens, as the case may be) soup.

It'd be okay, but I think I'd want to add some additional flavor like
mushrooms.

Bob