A plate of crisp green beans and sweet beets was generous but needed salt to bring it to life.

Thick slices of sweet red beets with a center spread of pungent goat cheese resembled an ice cream sandwich.

Risotto is well turned out, too, in this case blended with spinach and surrounded by sweet beets, carrots and leeks.

(In France, they might use blue cheese or go without any cheese), a tart contrast to the sweet beets.

Beets The uniquely sweet beet is a hearty, satisfying vegetable that's also good for you.

Beet and carrot salad with parsley, for one, is excellent, the carrots stained red by the juice from the sweet beets.

In addition, close your eyes, sniff, and you'll swear you're inhaling the scent of sweet young beets.

The combination of sweet beets and grassy dill screams summer.

Top honors for most memorable go to the arcobeleno, an inspired mixture of crunchy green beans, red onion and sweet beets.

A bright-red pile of shaved beets, tart and sweet, sends this little dish right into orbit.