{"id":377,"date":"2015-11-01T18:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmascookbook.ca\/?p=377"},"modified":"2015-11-01T18:39:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T18:39:26","slug":"beet-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/2015\/11\/beet-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Beet Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-380\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1-1024x787.jpg\" alt=\"beetsalad1\" width=\"660\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1-1024x787.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1-700x538.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1-332x255.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad1.jpg 1226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Grandma&#8217;s cooking is mentioned\u00a0at a family event, everyone\u00a0always talks about her\u00a0beet salad. \u00a0Not surprisingly, she didn&#8217;t feel the need to write it down, or maybe she passed her original recipe on to one of her many sons&#8217; (there was 8!) wives. \u00a0Either way, thanks to my Aunt, I tracked down the recipe and made our family some delicious Beet Salad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I liked better about this salad, it&#8217;s bright colour or it&#8217;s good taste! \u00a0It&#8217;s a perfect dish for the table for variety and it looks good!<\/p>\n<p>Slight variations to the recipe will not\u00a0hurt it&#8217;s good flavour, but here is the recipe my aunt passed on to me, which was given to her by Grandma.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-381\" src=\"http:\/\/grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"beetsalad2\" width=\"660\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2-700x493.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2-332x234.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beetsalad2.jpg 1107w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"recipe\">\n<h3>Beet Salad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3-4 lbs beets<\/li>\n<li>1 Apple<\/li>\n<li>1 Green Onion<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup Walnuts<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup Miracle Whip (or more to taste)<\/li>\n<li>Salt &amp; Pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boil beets, skin ON, for a minimum of 1 hour until soft.<\/li>\n<li>Peel skin off with fingers. Cut into cubes. Let cool.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the apple into small cubes, and add to the beets.<\/li>\n<li>Chop green onion &amp; include with the beets, leaving 1 tablespoon aside.<\/li>\n<li>Add salt, pepper and walnuts.<\/li>\n<li>Then mix with Miracle Whip salad dressing.<\/li>\n<li>Add the remaining green onion on top as a garnish. (Good idea as the WHOLE salad turns pink)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div class='printomatic pom-default ' id='id2856' alt='Print the Recipe Only' title='Print the Recipe Only' data-print_target='#recipe'><\/div> <div class='printomatictext' id='id2856' alt='Print the Recipe Only' title='Print the Recipe Only' data-print_target='#recipe'>Print the Recipe Only<\/div><div style='clear: both;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Grandma&#8217;s cooking is mentioned\u00a0at a family event, everyone\u00a0always talks about her\u00a0beet salad. \u00a0Not surprisingly, she didn&#8217;t feel the need to write it down, or maybe she passed her original recipe on to one of her many sons&#8217; (there was 8!) wives. \u00a0Either way, thanks to my Aunt, I tracked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandmascookbook.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}