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bxgirl, it’s a collection of short stories by various writers.
last night i made frozen associated brand onion rings and holy damn! they were So good!
*rob*
“the rich more than carry their share of the economic load.”
Speaking of poo.
You could leave the eggs out. It was great on it’s own but aside from that it’s a good base for almost any add-ins. How about serving it in individual crocks and melting a good cheese on top of the egg in the tradition of french onion soup? Yum.
Bxgrl- What’s your favorite soup to make? I am pretty adventurous with food but I do have an aversion to gefilte fish so I’m going to pass on your aunts recipe.
BRG- There are so many different kinds of Borscht soup. My favorite is the Ukrainian kind similar to this one from Epicurious.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/reviews/Hot-Beef-Borscht-with-Sour-Cream-3189
However if you want quick and easy, the Russian kind is the simplest (make sure you have a food processor to save yourself from all the grating):
RUSSIAN BORSCHT
7 beets, grated
2 lg. onions, grated
5 carrots, grated
1 head cabbage, finely shredded or grated
1.5 quarts beef stock
1 c. white wine
2 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Sour cream
Combine all vegetable ingredients in a stock pot and saute with butter until lightly colored. Add stock and wine and simmer a few hours. Season to taste. Serve with sour cream.
Dave:
As long as the top 10% have 40% of the nation’s wealth (not just income, but assets) and the top 20% have 80%, the tax rates don’t seem so out of line.
NOP
thanks THL…but no thanks. No poached eggs for me.
Easiest soup for me to make is Lentil…and it’s delish.
If you have a good easy recipe for borscht soup, I’ll take it.
rob- who’s the author?
THL- I’m going to look into that. I’ve been called Queen of Soup by friends and fam, so any good soup recipe I’ll go for. Not sure about the poached egg thing- for some reason I have an aversion to eggs in soup. Maybe if I closed my eyes and didn’t see the eggs looking back at me?
However, if you are in the market for an oddly weird but actually good tasting soup, I offer my aunt’s invention. She used to take alphabet soup and put gefilte fish in it. I almost choked the first time I had to eat it but it was surprisingly good. Go figure. Note: Only for the adventurous, like people who eat Limburger (so not me!).
oooooh thanks! i just found the most awesome book the other day on a stoop that someone left out. it’s a collection of short stories about people’s relationship to food when they cook and dine for one. it’s called “Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: confessions of cooking for one and dining alone.” it’s really funny and so many of the stories ring true. to the nice person who left out that stack of books for people to look thru, thank you! i needed a good book this week to read!
*rob*
I’m going completely off topic and getting domestic on ya’ll…
I’m not feeling so hot and was craving soup this morning for breakfast. I remembered seeing Mario Batali make Sopa de ajo on Martha Stewart and since it had poached eggs floated in it I thought it’d qualify as a breakfast soup.
Well it was so super easy and delicious I thought I’d share it with anyone who might care to make it themselves. Next time I might add some kind of green.
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/sopa-de-ajo
Glad to see this thread is bringing out the shit!