I found a shop selling beetroot the other week, so I bought a few kilos.
Boiled it for 1/2 an hour, peeled it sliced it and put it into sterilised jars containing my "pickle recipe"
Pickle Recipe.
2" Cinmamon.
6 Fiery dried chillis. (the little red evil ones they grow up in the mouintains around here)
6 Cloves.
1 Pt. Vinegar.
A few spoons of sugar.
2 Cardamom pods - the little green ones.
10 or so whole peppercorns.
Boil this concoction for around 15-20 minutes (with a lid) It will kill you if you have Asthma!
Fire up your oven and put your washed / cleaned jars inside and heat em up to sterilise them.
Chuck the lids in with the boiling beetroot water for five minutes to ensure they are "clean".
Stuff your jars with the sliced beetroot, fill them brim full with sieved vinegar mixture, tightly cap and refrigerate for 1 week - the longer you leave it the better.
So I tried some tonight with that "vintage cheddar" cheese from Big C, absolutely lovely. I gave my Thai family a try of Cheese and beetroot sandwich, they were almost rolling on the floor in abject misery!
Apparently, they find beetroot pickle to be too sour, honestly, it was hilarious watching their faces scrunge into an agonised squint, the boy had to go and spit his out!
They eat much more sour things than this, I simply cannot understand it. They actually looked like Bulldogs chewing a wasp!
Also today, I watched a rather interesting movie called "After Thomas" from 2006, dealing with a family that had the extremely bad luck to have an Autistic rather than Artistic Child.
Apparently, it was based on a true story!!!! And if this is how Autism effects kids, then that little fucker would have had a fucking cricket bat across his ass from day one!
What a pile of shit! And by the way, what happens to Autistic children when they grow up? You don't hear very much about adults sufferring from this behaviour problem. A good whack at a young age and wake the fuckers up seems to be all that is required and problem solved.
Another one of these "Invented" diseases, invented by the media to explain away anti social behaviour. In Newcastle the police give these people ASBOS!
Anyway, go treat your Thai friends to some pickled Beetroot, 12 baht for a pack of 3! But not easy to find up here.