I love learning to cook different types of cuisine. I have had friends from Mexico and Japan give me lessons on how to cook traditional, comforting foods from their homelands. While living in Belgium I learned to make some Flemish specialties. I also hold some Finnish and Slovenian recipes dear (since that's my heritage).
Gathering around food is such a universal tradition. It's interesting to me to see and participate in making food from different countries. I feel like it gives me a window into different cultures.
For years Troy and I have been talking about having a borscht-making party with our Russian friend Yuri. Finally we made it happen!
Yuri shared a very traditional, Ukrainian borscht recipe with us.
Lots of slicing and dicing was involved.
The soup included beets, but they were one of many ingredients.
It was a tasty but VERY filling soup. It was definitely unlike any "borscht" I have ever tasted in the U.S. Luckily we invited some folks over to share the meal. We still had leftovers for a couple of days afterwards, which was nice because the flavor of the soup got even better the day after.
