The veggie burgers at Northstar Café in Columbus, Ohio, are hands-down among the best burgers I’ve ever tasted. I was raised in a meat-and-potatoes household, but I’d take the beet, black bean and rice patty over beef ones almost any day — as would many carnivores, judging from the online raves. So when CSA beets arrived, I found a few recipes online that tried to replicate one of my old hometown favorites. — Josie Rubio

{Recipe after the jump.}
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