>>Interesting. I don't much like most vegetables, but in the past few years, figured out that beets are pretty good. Until then, I'd only ever had canned beets. But when I started buying and cooking fresh beets, I discovered that you can make 'em pretty tasty. (One thing I do involves a light sauce with honey and orange juice.)
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>Have you figured out a way to keep the red juice from running all over the plate?

Yep. It's called "beet is a salad on the side, in a separate dish".
And what they have in cans here is actually quite good - actually, by some unbelievable turn of events, the recipe is the same as to what we got used to at home.