Full disclosure: I don't like beets, but since they were in my farmshare I felt obliged to at least try a recipe.
And found to my surprise that I like them very much done this way, with pesto, and red onions and crushed walnuts scattered on, or atop, as recipe writers love to say. The steamed greens form a bed for the roots and the onions. This is really a side dish, but I made part of it my lunch. And I subbed as usual, walnuts for pine nuts, and rosemary pesto for the marjoram she uses but I don't have any of.
And since the steaming water and the skins were bright red I thought I'd see if they could make a good fabric dye. I know you can use beets but usually I think you cook them much longer and you use the parts I ate!
See Art the Beautiful for more on this...here
