Yesterday I pulled half the beets up and knew that first thing this morning, I had to get busy pickling beets. It isn’t hard but the beets have to be boiled and simmered for a while, then cooled, then the peeling just comes right off, then the pickling liquid has to be made and boiled and simmered and then the jars go into the water bath canner. Everything in the kitchen ends up sticky . . including me.
Pickled Beets
I could have put these all in pint jars but it’s easy to keep a quart jar in the fridge. You know how I measure everything . . 12 quarts would mean one quart per month but we’ve eaten enough beets out of the garden already, that once I pull the rest of the beets, I’ll probably get 7 quarts and 1 pint of pickled beets.
As I was pickling the beets, I was wondering . . could I pickle sweet potatoes and what about carrots? I had a ton of sweet potatoes late in the fall and I have carrots coming out my ears. After a little research, I found recipes for pickled sweet potatoes and pickled carrots. We’ve been using sweet potatoes a lot so I don’t have enough of them to try pickling but I am going to make pickled carrots after I finish the beets.
During the summer, when okra was plentiful, I made lots of pickled okra.
Pickled Okra
We love pickled okra. I’ll have to make more next summer than I made this summer. If we love pickled okra and pickled beets, we should like pickled carrots too, right?
Love love love pickled beets. I make them the way my mother did. As a child I remember standing on a chair at the sink over the pot of cooked beets slipping the skins off. I thought it was so much fun. Pickled carrots are good, too, as well as cauliflower. Had both those today at the home of a quilting friend.
Are you going to share your pickling recipes? Please!!!!!!!!!
I love pickled veggies but I’ve only had the ones you buy in the grocery store.
Thanks!
Oh MAN, I LOVE pickled okra!!! YUM!!
I have a recipe for dilled carrots (yes, they are pickled!) Quite good! As for pickled cauliflower – YUM!
I have a friend who owns an event facility. Like weddings and stuff. They make the most wonderful tiny pickled carrots you have ever tasted in your life! I hang around their events and just eat all those tiny carrots
glen in Louisiana
Pickled carrots are wonderful….we mix asparagus and carrots in the same jar….they look so cool in the hare hate to open them up to eat.
You let me know how the carrots go. I love pickled beets. My aunt always put hard boiled eggs in with them, too. Weird, but tasty. Pickled okra I haven’t tried, but I like okra. My aunt also made watermelon pickles from the pink and white part of the rind – left a little extra pink on, I guess. Very yummy, but talk about a sticky kitchen!
Oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE pickled watermelon rind! When I was pregnant with my oldest – we ate a LOT of watermelon – not only because I liked watermelon – but because I had to have the melon in order to get to the rind! I was pickling watermelon rind at least once a week – all the way up to the day before my daughter was born!
I make pickeled red beet eggs for my Dad quite often. He loves to have a jar of them in the fridge.
I;ve pickled eggs in leftover pickled beet juice. for that matter, I’ve also pickled eggs in dill pickle juice (with a stong hint of hot pepper) as well. LOVE them – and they are so much fun sliced up in salads for lunch,, esp. on days I”m teaching!
What?!?!? No pickled beans?
Dilly beans are GREAT!
Back in the day when I did that stuff, it would have been so much fun to have been able to share it. No pickling for me these days.
I LOVE pickled okra! My grandma used to let me eat a pint, everyday after school! She was the best grandma ever!
All our taqueria’s here have sliced pickled carrots. Alot of vinegar and Mexican oregano – yum..We love pickled beets to, as a veggie or in salads.
Our family loves spicy pickeled carrots. We put a pepper in with green bean pickles and with our cucumber dills.
Hi Judy, I love my pickled beets, they have brown sugar for the sweetness. I do green or yellow beans and carrots as I do my kosher dills. Love them as no sugar is involved so they are like an unlimited food. Have you tried juicing your beets? I have done a little of it as it is quite a strong taste, but really healthy! Be well, love your friendship through this blog.
Yummy–pickled beets are one of my favorite ways of eating beets. Usually end up pickling most of my crop each year.
How about green beans? My husband loves pickled green beans.