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Heat your oven to 350 degrees.
Cut off the leggy root and the tops. Then scrub the beets if they're dirty.
Lay a large piece of foil on a baking sheet, leaving half the foil hanging off one end. Place the beets on top of the foil on the baking sheet. Sprinkle the beets with olive oil -- just enough to dress them like salad greens -- and season with salt and pepper. Fold the foil in half to make a packet and crimp the edges.
Bake until the beets are tender (you can check by piercing a fork through the foil). It usually takes 40 to 60 minutes, depending on the size of the beets. Let them cool in the foil packets.
When the beets are cool enough to touch, remove them from the packet and peel off the skins -- they should slip off like Concord grape skins.