Thread: Beetroot

Can you grow or buy beetroots in southern Thailand ? Anyone of you tried ?
Im tired of the boring canned variety from Tesco.

dunno about growing it bit I buy nice beetroot in Makro and make my own, excellent!

Originally Posted by peterpan

dunno about growing it bit I buy nice beetroot in Makro and make my own, excellent!

if it is those red ohes you use to pickle in scandinavia i can post you some seads we can get nearly ewry skandinanseeds you ned just send me a pm

Originally Posted by peterpan

dunno about growing it bit I buy nice beetroot in Makro and make my own, excellent!

Do you pickle it or do it the boring Aussie way in tap water?

Originally Posted by smeden

Originally Posted by peterpan

dunno about growing it bit I buy nice beetroot in Makro and make my own, excellent!

if it is those red ohes you use to pickle in scandinavia i can post you some seads we can get nearly ewry skandinanseeds you ned just send me a pm

You think they can be grown in the tropics ? You tried ? Thanks anyway.
I will clean my glasses next time I go to Macro and pickle them myself.

Too hot, especially in Southern Thailand's tropical year long climate.

Maybe you can grow them in Chiang Mai.

What do you do with them?

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Do you pickle it or do it the boring Aussie way in tap water?

He pickles them. Asked for the recipe but the stingy old git won't give it to me.

Pickling.

Originally Posted by Pol the Pot

What do you do with them?

At a guess, he eats them.

Pickled beetroots

Here you got the recipe. Very delicious - eat them with meat, meatballs, in sallads,
on the liver pate, use your imagination. The canned variety you get in Thailand is a huge insult to the wonderful and extremely healthy beetroot

just boil them slice them and cover with vinegar --malt is best but any will do

Thats right Donald, I find malt almost obligatory as the thai stuff is too strong

Originally Posted by Norton

He pickles them. Asked for the recipe but the stingy old git won't give it to me.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Thats right Donald, I find malt almost obligatory as the thai stuff is too strong

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I have a friend who grown organic beetroot on his farm in Phuket.

Originally Posted by donald36

just boil them slice them and cover with vinegar --malt is best but any will do

white wine vinegar is good too

I find the Thai beetroots to be a little earthy in flavour compared to the Euro versions, maybe no sweetness to them?

Originally Posted by boes

Can you grow or buy beetroots in southern Thailand ? Anyone of you tried ?
Im tired of the boring canned variety from Tesco.

As a reply to my own question : YES they've got them in Macro - Krabi.....

A hamburger is not a hamburger without beetroot.

Originally Posted by Blue water dreaming

A hamburger is not a hamburger without beetroot.

I think you mean 'An Ockerburger is not an Ockerburger without beetroot'.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

I find the Thai beetroots to be a little earthy in flavour compared to the Euro versions

Yes. I've been getting from Macro lately and they seem similar to Euro/American types. Thinking they are from temperate zones in China.

I make borscht with them.

I nearly rushed to the doctors the morning after eating a nice bowl of that

Originally Posted by DrAndy

I nearly rushed to the doctors the morning after eating a nice bowl of that

Probably the horrid Russian style slop. Next time eat the Ukrainian style my granny taught me to make.

errrmm, it was more the colour of my faeces that was worrying

no problem with the soup itself

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I think you mean 'An Ockerburger is not an Ockerburger without beetroot'

Oh..Is that what I meant?!
Twerp!

Originally Posted by Blue water dreaming

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I think you mean 'An Ockerburger is not an Ockerburger without beetroot'

Oh..Is that what I meant?!
Twerp!

Poor old Marmite - can't help himself. I was going back through the early history of the deportees from blighty recently and his forebears and some of their friends feature heavily.

His favourite labotomy procedure is in fact to clear all the shit out of the head that he carries on with so the colonials had some chance at a new life.

The real tragedy is we might be related.....

Originally Posted by AUSSIE EXPAT

I was going back through the early history of the deportees from blighty recently and his forebears and some of their friends feature heavily.

I'm not 150 years old, so it's unlikely I knew any early Ockers.