These delicious recipes are just the beginning of the wonderful things you can do with the planet’s most exuberantly hued root. Few foods are as instantly festive as the earthy-sweet, richly hued beet ...

2 cups sliced, cooked beets or 1 15-ounce can sliced beets, drained In a saucepan, combine the vinegar, sugar, water, cinnamon and cloves. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add the beets. Return ...

Underappreciated, that's beets. This humble root vegetable is readily available, versatile, and has a deliciously sweet and unique flavor. If you've heard how good for you they are or just want to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the term “vulgaris” forms the second half of the given Latin name of a plant, as it very often does, we understandably might think it gives a negative ...

Millennia before Louis Pasteur discovered the bacteria-killing process known as pasteurization, our ravenous forbears found that foods lasted longer if they were treated to various procedures. Before ...

Throughout the summer, Extension educators received many calls concerning problems with canning red beets. Many people seem confused about canning plain beets in water versus pickled beets canned in a ...

The first person to soak the humble cucumber in some vinegar couldn't in their wildest dreams have predicted the Picklewich, pickle ice cream or pickle Bloody Marys, but here we are. Pickles aren't ...

I am blessed to have had wonderful parents and great-grandparents. My grandmother Lienhart really celebrated Easter with lots of spring foods and there were always pickled red beet eggs. I was greatly ...