Pickled Beets!

My sister before she moved found a great pick-your-own farm near DC. Over the summer, she's brought me some fruit and veggies . . . and 20 lbs. of beets. So what do you do with these tasty roots? Pickle them!

One huge beet!

Washing them off and cutting the tops and bottoms off.

Get your cans prepped!

We did three different recipes - one was for spicy picked beets, one for beet relish, and one regular pickled beet. We boiled beets and baked beets -

Here's Jodie pulling beets out of the oven . . .

And the final product! We had a taste tester try the beets a few weeks later and they passed with flying colors~ I don't know if I do beets again, they were quite a bit of work and it was very messy. Not to mention we all had purple hands at the end.