Winter and soup

[vera_j]

This first weekend of 2009 presented us with a breath of COLD!  The temperatures kept dropping to minus 11-12°C on Friday and Saturday night, 5-6°C during the day. Half of the wood in the cellar gone (in less then a week!). However we all are happy because the new windows really can keep the warmth in a way we didn´t see before.
Now the temperature is rising to only minus one (immediate info), it is windy and overcast and it looks like snowing. We´ll see!
I can feel a change of the pressure ( always) and I am cold though it is warm enough here. I decided to make soup - the boys will like it too, I suppose, for dinner. After this Christmas feasting, it will be a good change!
We call the soup "zelňačka" - made of cabbage. Actually not of "green" cabbage but of sauercraut. My, home-made one! I chop some root vegetables (carrot, celery, parsley) and a small onion and roast it on oil. In the meantime I boil about 1-1,5l water. Add the vegetable in, together with some rape-seed, salt and Masox (our best de-hydrated beef bouillon) and let boil. In the meantime I boil about 1litre of sauercraut shortly. I will use it without that water.And I chop some spiced saussages. As soon as the vegetable is all right, I add sauercraut and saussages and  sweet dried paprica. And boil shorty. I also add thickener. Sometimes we change paprika for sour cream and add chopped potatoes to the vegetables. It is NOT bortsch!!! It WARMS you  and it is low in calories.
I am quite warm now! :-)

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That sounds good! We have some sauerkraut, but it's too hot now for soup. I'll save this to memories for another time.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

:-) Really, I keep forgetting that the Earth is a globe and you live no the other side!:-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one. Almost everyone up there forgets the existence of half the planet. It's particularly bad at Christmas for some reason.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Well, of course not... Bortsch has beetroot in it. (Well, it does in England, anyway - that's the defining ingredient)

Do you make your own sauercraut? We don't see it very often over here.

[luinielle.livejournal.com]

Oh this soup sounds delicious and I love to make different soups! It's finally a bit cold here so perhaps I will try this over the weekend. Thank you for posting this. :-)