What Happens When You Try to Cook Beets in a Microwave

The beet catches fire. Cooking beets in the microwave is apparently a little trickier than potatoes. Happily, serendipity favors us tonight. After dinner at Chili’s, we found a new dessert place, the Cold Stone Creamery.
We have been trying to be good of late—avoiding going out as much as possible. We planned on scraping by tonight with fish sticks and a simple salad topped with beets from the Farmers’ Market.

Robin thought that cooking the beet in the microwave would work similar to cooking a potato. She even tried it on the potato setting on the microwave. After one cycle, the beet was not cooked through, so she put it in for more time. It caught fire.

Without salad, and with the bad burnt smell in the kitchen, we decided it was best to go out. So off to Chili’s we went. We all seem to be able to find something to eat there. Plus the baby loves the atmosphere.

Afterwards, Chris needed coffee. We drove to a local Starbuck’s only to find that a new Cold Stone Creamery had opened next door. Actually, it was our daughter that noticed the “Now Open” sign (who taught that kid to read?).

It was really good. The adults split a coffee lover’s bowl—mocha ice cream mixed with caramel, almonds and heath bar. Our son had mint ice cream (because it was green) with oreos and gummy bears. If possible, our daughter had an even odder combination of flavors, getting cake batter ice cream with oreos, chocolate chips and, yes, gummy bears.

Yep. Pretty lucky we set fire to that beet.

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