Sunday, November 08, 2009

On Borscht....




My upstairs neighbor gave me 2 cups of homemade borscht on Friday night. It was actually pretty good. Maybe those Russians got something right ...Even Da Wife admitted that it was good.

I like trying new things ;) 

12 comments:

Mottel said...

Borscht reminds me of the great grandmother . . . yum.

Leora said...

You are making me hungry.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Arrgh. Being a non-kosher variety and knowing what real borscht is, I have to tell you, Jacob, that this concoction you tasted doesn't have any relation to borscht. Aside of the name and general coloring.

Dude with hat (aka BTS) said...

@SnoopyTheGoon - i disagree - my mom does great borscht and it's still kosher. Yes, you can't put sour cream there, but the rest is 100% kosher

@Jacob - what do you have against Russians?? :)

Lvnsm27 said...

Never tried myself. I like to try new things too

Barb Chansky said...

First of all, strictly speaking, borsch is Ukranian, not Russian (those bloody bastards do not deserve any extra credit for anything); second of all, not to sound preachy, but it is an insult to call Jews Russians (or Ukrainians, for that matter); and, on the light site, it is very easy to make (be it meat or pareve variety), and I am yet to meet a recipe that was impossible to "kosher up"

Moshe said...

Barb, considering where you and I are from, that's like Mother Russia all the way! ;-)

I prefer yemenite soup. If it aint got meat in it, it aint worth eating!

Anonymous said...

When I lived in Yerushalaim, I was once over at a friends apartment, and out of the blue the neighbor comes over and gives him a huge bowl of kubbe!

Shabbat Shalom all.

Mark

N said...

Nothing beats good ol' chicken soup - especially my mums!

Jacob Da Jew said...

Mottel: Great Grandma rock! Too bad I never met mine.

Leora: LOL.

Snoopy: Er, Thanks...

BTS: Me?!? I luv mama russia!

lvsm: New things are good.

Barb: I like your style.

Moshe: Don't like yemenite soup.I tried the one from Olympic Pita.

N: Yeah yeah. We all love mama's soop.

SubWife said...

I follow the same recipe for meat borsch as my 100% Ukrainian former neighbor. Mine is kosher, hers is not. I am sure it tastes very similarly, except for mentioned previously sour cream.

However, I have to disagree with Barb. Some recipes just can't be kosherized. Meat lasagna? I never tried, but I just can't see how it could be done.

Moshe said...

Restaurant yemenite soup? duh
Was there even meat in it?
I'm talking about home made.