{"id":8671,"date":"2013-07-30T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madeeveryday.com\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2013-07-30T01:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:18:18","slug":"he-beet-me-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeveryday.com\/he-beet-me-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"he Beet me to it"},"content":{"rendered":"

A strange thing happened at our house last month.
\nIn one of those Freaky Friday moments, it was like I was him and he was me.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nCause somewhere in the midst of my KID shorts<\/a> drafting, drawing, and escaping at night to work on the pattern….Casey took up pickling.
\nPickling!
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nYa see, we were having dinner at a friend’s house and our friend asked if we liked beets.
\n“I think they taste like dirt,” he told us (always a great selling point). And then he offered us all the beets we wanted from his garden….along with some lovely heirloom tomatoes I should add.\u00a0 Guess he couldn’t wait to unload those things.\u00a0 In fact, I came back the next week to get a photo of the beet plants and they were already pulled out! (with new zucchini in their place)
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nWell, Casey happens to love beets.
\nAnd he got super excited about this idea of having homemade pickled beets.
\n“Awesome. Great! We’d love some beets.\u00a0 I’m sure Dana can figure out a pickling recipe. She’s good at that stuff….or maybe I’ll even try doing it myself”
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nAnd while I totally appreciated the DIY compliment,
\nWhat???
\nI was trying to put out a sewing pattern using precious small moments of free time in the chaos of constant kid-life….and now I had to stall everything for 2 days to figure out how to can and pickle what was just sold to me as “dirt”?<\/p>\n

That’s how it sounded in my head.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nWhat came out of my mouth was, “thanks for the beets!”
\n…and then they sat in a bag on our back porch for 3 days,
\ntill Casey decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n

At 10pm on a Saturday night I settled in on the couch to check instagram while he casually mentioned he was going to the store to pick up some canning jars.\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 Wow. \u00a0 You’re going to start a canning project this late at night?\u00a0 Of course, duh, that’s often when I start unrealistic projects.\u00a0 So I tried not to squash the energy and loved that he was really going to try this on his own.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nAnd he totally did!\u00a0 It was really fun to watch.\u00a0 He spent the first night prepping everything.\u00a0 And in the morning, he pickled away.
\nHe’s a pickler.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nHe followed a recipe similar to THIS<\/a> (and halved the recipe amounts)
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nHe learned tricks for removing the skins, figured out how to sterilize jars, realized what whole cloves were,
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nand took pride in his new discoveries.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThere’s a DIYer in us all, right?
\nOf course Casey’s always been good at creative projects.\u00a0 He installed all that backsplash you see behind him.\u00a0 I appreciate a handy guy.\u00a0 And now a pickling guy.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThere you have it folks.
\nPickled Beets!
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nAnd then he told Lucy all about it.
\nShe was thrilled.
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nThe real test came 2 weeks later when he broke open the first jar and gave it a taste.
\nHe cut the first beet into pieces for all of us to try (and shocker of shocks, the kids actually tried some!\u00a0 They didn’t like it, but they tried).
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nAnd what did Casey think?
\n\"\"<\/a>
\nDelish.
\nI’m gonna leave him to his 10pm devices more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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