Purple Pickled Eggs

I don't know if pickled eggs count as WASP-y food, but I just had to blog about these bad boys:

I don't know what on earth possessed me to make pickled eggs, but I got to thinking about them a few days ago and figured I'd give it a whirl. My reasoning being: I like pickles, I like hard boiled eggs, maybe I'd like pickled hard boiled eggs. Also, I wanted to make my own so I knew exactly what I was getting myself into.

To make purple pickled eggs you'll need a couple days and:

4-6 hard boiled eggs

1/2 cup vinegar

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon pickling spice

1 cup water

a few beet slices

1. Hard boil eggs and cool them in the fridge. Peel.

2. In a saucepan, bring water, vinegar, sugar, pickling spice, and beets to a boil. Check out the taste. I added a little extra sugar to mine. Cool in the fridge.

3. Important: Don't place eggs in pickling solution until both the eggs and the pickling solution have been chilled. Otherwise, the eggs may get a rubbery texture.

4. Let eggs sit in picking solution for 2 days.

5. Be brave and try one! Aren't they strangely pretty?

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised with how these came out! It tasted like a hard boiled egg married a pickled beet and had a beet-egg baby. However, I could see how these might be a hard-to-acquire taste for the less adventurous.