. A Little Taste of MawMaw's .

One day we were missing home, and especially missing MawMaw...

so we decided to make some new memories that brought her along with us :)

I found a recipe for "Canned Beets" written in MawMaw Fetty's own handwriting,

and we went to town:

Heating the jars, the lids, and cooking the beets down to peel

*Note- we took it way back to the 'old school' days b/c we didn't have 'mason' jars & fancy lids... we had been saving our spaghetti jars so we could make beets & pickles- we MAY have been pretty impressed with ourselves. LOL.

 

Once they were peeled we cut them and dropped them into the pot to "pickle" then filled the jars:

Then our next adventure... PICKLES!!!!

Gosh we had missed these.

We cleaned the cucumbers, cut them and filled the jars

Once the "pickling" mixture was ready, we poured them into the hot jars and put the lids on to seal.

Amazingly enough- all of the jars (but one pickle and one beet jar) totally re-sealed!

We were SO excited to have PICKLES back in our lives, and were a little proud of ourselves for accomplishing the task 'all by ourselves' - haha.

*We may be bias (or pickle deprived), but we think these were some of THE BEST pickles we had ever tasted!!!!

Thanks MawMaw for you recipe, and the LOVE with which you make SO many yummy dishes to share with us (and everyone else in the family).

We miss you A LOT, but it sure was nice "having you" in our kitchen with us ;)

We LOVE you!