Start of the Pickling Season

It has come early this year... we are growing more than chillis! Our first crop of beetroot and glut of courgettes needed using.

Firstly, yesterday, the beetroot. They are meant to be variegated purple and white. Well the stems are, but the tubers not so much.

Roasted for an hour...

...and then pickled.

We'll see what they taste like soon.

And then today, the courgettes. I picked a recipe from my trusty older edition of this Joy of Pickling book for "bread and butter" pickled zucchinis. This is the result.

Don't they look appetising? A taste of some stray bits that didn't make it into the jars was promising. 3 weeks to wait before we can try them. By then we should have a bunch more courgettes to use.

Job for tomorrow... some labels!