I live in an area that gets cold, very cold and what is better to warm you up on a cold day than a big bowl of soup! Now when I say it gets cold here let me expand on that, just a few days ago, it hit -41.9C. Now I know what many of my US relatives and friends are saying, that's just Celsius or centigrade, it's not as if it was in Fahrenheit degrees. So to you I say HA! Sure we all know 0C = 32F but then a strange magical thing happens when the temperature gets to -40C it's the same in Fahrenheit! I'm not sure why, maybe it has something to do with global warming but see the thermometer in my picture. If you click on it and enlarge it, -40C is -40F!
Anyway we're up here where your skin can freeze in 30 seconds and we have to plug in our cars and spit freezes before it hits the ground, is it any wonder we like soup. If we had a big enough pot, we'd probably be tempted to sit in soup on really cold days. So my cookbook for today was edited by Debra Mayhew and has lots of wonderful hearty soups. It also has great step by step pictures so almost anyone can follow along, I did and I even included a photo of the Borscht I made last night, yum. It even has a recipe for pumpkin soup for all you Australians, I know that's your national food. So here's cookbook #4 The Soup Bible.
Not a big fan of Borscht but I do like soup. Thanks for sharing.
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ReplyDeleteI had borsht for breakfast! Delicious!
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