Borscht 31 January 2007, 20:11

Borscht, January 28, 2007

When Mom was here she commissioned a jar of V-8 vegetable juice to make a meatball vegetable soup. To use up what was left, I hit on the idea of substituting V-8 (basically tomato juice) for part of the water to fulfil the tomato quotient in a borscht recipe from Tanya.

This is how these things get started. The results were pretty pink and beetrooty, as I used three smaller beets in place of one large one. The soup was good, and the baby has been dining on the soup vegetables (grated beets, carrots and cabbage, green peppers, potatoes and disintegrated boiled onion) for days.

I say it was some good soup, but strangely, it was not Tanya’s soup. I think I learned something. I can’t replicate the soups Tanya makes. No matter what recipe I use, it’s not the same. Call it a philosophical point, but when someone makes soup for you it’s something special, and nothing you can do yourself can touch it, let alone (O hubris!) improve on it. It’d make a gourmand cry, to paraphrase the Rolling Stones.

Next up is a split pea soup “like Dad used to make.” I need me a stockpot!

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