🔴 Hooray for National BEET Day !🔴
IMHO any day’s a great day to honor this vitamin C–, fiber–, and potassium-rich vegetable—and a personal favorite of mine for creating all-natural deep red hues in food and drink (no fake colors needed!).
I just love utilizing beets as an awesome and amazing all natural source for infusing bright and deep red hues into food and drink recipes the more NATURAL way vs. opting for fake carcinogenic food colors .
Check out these 👉🏽 creative culinary applications of the versatile beet via RECIPES 👈🏾 I curated for Food.com via the link in this sentence and see also highlights in the photo carousel below:
Beets were the magic behind achieving the perfect red in the line up of this year’s cocktail coloring bar — you’ll learn more about in this Saturday’s “Happy Stone House Day” post but for now here’s a visual teaser:
🔴 The red color option at the “cocktail coloring bar” I did for OSH was called FRESA FRAGRANTE (Fragrant Strawberry) aka “Fresa Fields Forever": a super fun color that imparted subtle fruity & floral notes to help us segue from spring to early summer — that dipstick in time when the vibrant colors of bright red fruits & veg are in abundance!
The FRESA FRAGRANTE (Fragrant Strawberry) red drink option was one of five all natural “cocktail coloring bar” colors I came up with to choose from at this year’s OSH fundraiser gaila… but don’t let the name alone fool you — a beautiful beet “shrub” i mixed in made the color pop!!…
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