Ingredients:

2 Large Fresh beets (or 1 can)

2 medium pickles

5 large cloves of garlic

Crushed walnuts

Mayonnaise

Salt

Pepper

Lemon-Pepper

1. Boil beets approx. 1 hour to they are tender but firm enough to be shredded

2. Shred beets in a large hole hand-operated shredder

3. Shred pickles

4. Mash Garlic and add to goop

5. Add the balance of the ingredients to the goop

6. Serve goop chilled with iced Vodka

7. Recover from hangover

Original text:

First of all if you want a quality salad, you have to buy your beets raw and boil them to perfection (about an hour I'd say)-- that's how my salad was made. For lower quality final product you could substitute real beets with canned staff, which is already cooked.

You shred beets on a large-hole, hand-operated shredder, then shred pickles. For a can of beets or two nice-size raw beets you'd want to add two medium size pickles. Then you take four to five big cloves of garlic and mash it. Add walnuts to the mixture. Then add mayonnaise (if you use canned beets, get rid of extra liquid, which will appear in the process of shredding) and seasoning, which normally includes salt, pepper, some lemon-pepper and some sugar.

Go by your taste, as I do, as I have a feel for proportions, which you will develop too after your first experience. That's it.