Beets Fresh from the Garden

This year I decided to try beets in my garden.  I only had a small plot of garden area left so I threw in a bunch of seeds.  Amazingly enough, they grew despite the hard summer we've had!  Today I picked the first of the full size beets and made my favorite salad - Lithuanian beet salad.  Of course, anything from my own garden will always taste better in my personal opinion but truly, fresh beets from the garden are delicious.  I also did one other thing different (other than grow my own beets) and that is add diced Tony Packo's Sweet Hots pickles instead of traditional dill pickles.  The Sweet Hots made the salad, which says a lot since I love this salad no matter what.  Hopefully later this week I can start on the hot pepper jelly!