Wannabefree...guess what I got in the mail today!?!?!?!?

[SSDreamin]

All unwanted pickled beets can be shipped right up here! I love em but I haven't been able to grow them

PS - ate my first radishes on Friday - first ones that have actually grown in my garden in almost 6 years of trying

 

[Denim Deb]

I didn't know you could grow pickled beets.

 

[Wannabefree]

All unwanted pickled beets can be shipped right up here! I love em but I haven't been able to grow them

PS - ate my first radishes on Friday - first ones that have actually grown in my garden in almost 6 years of trying

They eat a pint at a time She bought two bushels of beets from the local Amish buddy

 

[SSDreamin]

I didn't know you could grow pickled beets.

I just sprinkle vinegar on them when they start to grow. Hmmm...think that may be my problem?

 

[Dawn419]

Love the pantry!

Congrats on the new babies, too!

 

[Bettacreek]

When I was a kid, I wouldn't touch the eggs, I'd ONLY eat the pickled beets. Now, I'll eat the egg whites and the beets, still can't stand boiled egg yolks. I can eat beets until I'm blue (purple?) in the face and still can't get enough!

 

[pinkfox]

see i LOVE beetroot (or pockeled beets) butwhen we moved to CT i dont knwo what it was but the pickled beets didnt taste the same...they were infact YICKY...they tasted nothing like the beetroot i grew up with and LOVING...
im thinking difference pickling vinegar of spices/herbs...i dunno...

then our first trip down here to tn we stopped in a little diner for lunch and they had a salad bar with pickeld beets, me and mum both hesitantly took a little bit just to see if mabe theyd got it right and OMG it was just like home! but we forgot to ask what brand/where they got them..
ive got a can in the cabinate now and kinda hesitant to try them because what if there NOT the same, what if there like the yicky ones...ill be devastated...

good picked beetroot i can eat till im purple in the face too, LOVE the stuff when its doen right...but when its not...oh boy

same with pickled "cocktail" onions...in the uk pearl onions are picked in malt vinegar...and there delicious, here its just not the same, the flavor and texture are off...
i can eat malt picked onions again till im blue in the face...but once again all it takes is a slight change in the pickling recipie and eww!

 

[Bettacreek]

I've never tried the weird white pickled eggs. Other areas pickle them with spices and such. Here, we add the whole can/jar of canned beets, water and all, then keep adding water until it has half water, then the other half is vinegar, then some sugar (I never measure the sugar, I just plop it in, but I'd say maybe a cup of sugar for like a 3g jar). I HAVE tried pickled green beans with the spices in it though, and they were delish. I tried them when I was pregnant and I could've sat down and eaten a jar by myself. I just don't think spicy pickled eggs would be as good, probably more so because I'm accustomed to eating the dutch style.

 

[Wannabefree]

I like pickled sausages. Eggs are okay. Beets are yuck. Okra is really yuck. Sausage though.....is from heaven.

Well we no longer have a dog problem. I feel a little mean, but it was really fun too. The dogs the nieghbors left behind...are back with the neighbors now We have called those lugnuts numerous times about the dogs, that they needed to DO SOMETHING about them. They get in the garbage, sleep in my lawn chairs on MY front porch, and crap big honkin piles in the garden, not to mention dig in my garden. I called the heffer(SIL) about them yesterday, telling her they were in the trash and such, and the poor things were starved to death anyway. So she decided to get snarky with me. That was NOT very smart. She really pee'd me off, so I loaded up her mutts today, and hauled their flea riddled carcasses over to the new house. They are THEIR problem now. I DARE them to bring them back. ONLY because these people are DH's family did I not just give up and call the police, because abandoning them, and coming every week to feed them, IS animal cruelty. Stupid people Anyway, it is so quiet around here already, and most of the other neighbors who knew what I was up to are very much approving of the way we handled it. Those dogs were nuisances.

 

[pinkfox]

WOOT yay for sorting out the dog problem! hopefully thats the end of that one...they seemed pretty testy when we were there so i can only imagine how potentially agressive they could be given enough time and getting hungry enough...

as a side note...i read that as "picked sausages" and would REALY like seeds from your sausage tree!!