Vegetarian Borscht in a white bowl, garlic and rye bread

The Borscht

Hello everyone, … “Borscht in the early nineteenth century, made for the Russian tsar, consisted of three stocks blended together—one of veal, another of morel mushrooms, and a third of goose and dried prune, with sour cherries used for acidity instead of tomatoes, which were not yet common in Russian cooking. This sounded like the most luxurious foundation of borscht I could imagine—both worlds apart from my family’s version…”

Featured picture of final dish of French Ratatouille

French Ratatouille from Julia Child

Hello everyone, You are in a process of your 15 min dinner fix, ignoring your one-year-old crying in his high-chair and yelling to him “please wait for two more min, my dear, mommy is almost done”, cutting the veggies in one bunch with the help of food processor while opening a tin of tomato sauce and dragging your foot to the fridge to quickly get a bunch of parsley (dragging, because your 3-year old is hanging on your leg asking…