On the weekend my friend S dropped off about ten pounds of fresh beets at my doorstep. I guess she had a lot. That would be 30 plus beets. I asked a few friends if they would like some but they were not interested. Now, I've never made pickled beets and was not about to start. They came clean and trimmed. I decided to just boil them up in batches of 10 with celery salt, cloves, allspice, vinegar, nutmeg and dried tarragon. They tasted really fresh and good. I peeled and sliced them, packaged them in ziplocs and froze them. I guess I can use them whenever I need frozen vegetables (borscht perhaps?) It was an unexpected, perhaps domesticated way to spend an afternoon!
Here they are all sliced up:
