Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Beets for barszcz

Every year we plant red beets for our traditional Wigilia.  This year we got the most beautiful beets ever!
They were big and very, very dark red. We don't know what we contribute the success to, whether the location ( Upper garden), the weeding, plentiful of rain, the selected variety or covering them with crates to protects them from the deer.
Jane also is working on making "kwas", which is fermenting the beets for the required sourness.
I also like to cook them as a vegetable, accompaniment for my main meal.