Marinated pumpkin

Latvians are in to preserving things. Fruit, vegetables, berries, mushrooms – you name it, we preserve it. It all relates to winter – it is (literally) freezing cold for 6-7 months of the year and the opportunity to grow and eat fresh produce is quite limited. Preserves in a form of jam, marmalade, marinating, salting, curing, pickling, drying, smoking, canning and bottling is the next best thing.