Whenever I cook anything except borscht that contains cabbage, N complains that the house smells too Russian.
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Whenever I cook anything except borscht that contains cabbage, N complains that the house smells too Russian.
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LOL! Does this hold for both sweet and pickled cabbage? All of continental Europe has many pickled cabbage dishes that I would say ring German or Polish more than anything else. Pickled cabbage leaves stuffed with beef and rice, simmered with sausages and bacon — yum!
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You are scaring me here! This is exactly the dish I’m making right now! At this very moment!
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🙂
Sorry to scare you!
That’s my favorite fall/winter dish, I make it 1-2 times per year, one time for DH’s birthday in late November. As you know, it’s labor-intensive, so I make a large batch at a time and then we eat for days.
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Very labor-intensive!
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Try soljanka. it will smell east german.
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I don’t like it, actually. I can’t see the point of boiling pickled cucumbers.
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Does N think borsht doesn’t smell Russian or is he just afraid of igniting your wrath by associating the two?
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Hey, he already referred to borscht as “soup” and still can’t live it down, 8 years later. :-)))))))
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