Please Don't Hate Me Because of My Beets

I have a confession.

I love beets.

I really do.

Regular cooked beets and pickled beets.

Every time I go to a salad buffet, I load up on pickled beets.

(I wonder if I have a deficiency?)

So....in my little garden world last fall,

I decided to grow my own beets.

For just me.

Because frankly, everyone else in my family hates beets.

I have been told they taste like dirt.

(I wonder if I have a deficiency?)

I really haven't shared too much about my little patch of beets.

I guess I was afraid of the ridicule and scorn of the world,

That I actually have a patch of beets growing in my garden.

(and that I'm excited about it)

See, here are a couple of little beet sprouts hiding amongst the lettuce last fall.

(are they ashamed of the ridicule of the world too?)

So....this week I decided it was time to harvest my beet patch.

Not a great yield, but it was my first venture into beet growing.

And I decided it was time to make my very own supply of pickled beets!

So off went the beet tops and into the pot they went, to cook up and put into little jars with some vinegar and sugar and spices.

And voila....the final product.....my very own supply of pickled beets!

Now, to analyze my little project....

Did it cost me less money to grow them and pickle them myself?

Probably not.

Would it have been easier to go to the store and buy a jar of pickled beets?

Probably.

But gosh darnit-it was sure fun to grow my own beets and then pickle them myself!

Take that, you swine flu......I'm prepared! I have pickled beets in my pantry!