How Pale Is My Borscht

[desperance]

I made borscht in the slow cooker overnight, and it's really odd how all the colour has leached out of the beetroot. The borscht is in fact not pale, it is redolently ruby, but the chunks of beet are positively pallid.

Tastes good, though. In my head I have invented a fancy version, where you get a bowl of the-ingredients-chunked-up-in-the-stock, much as it is now, only within that bowl is a little bowl of deep-fried bread, and within that is a liquidised version of the same soup. Different colour, different texture, the same flavours but with a totally different mouth-feel. How's that for froufy? I shoulda bina chef...

I shouldabin anything but a writer. Have been unaccountably depressed & inadequate for twenty-four hours now. Not even playing with the new toy. Nothing to write, nothing to do. Bleah.

Comments

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

I hope someday you'll write a cookbook. Your recipes are fabulous, you're one of the best cooks I know. You can sprinkle in passages from your novels and stories and add a flash fiction or two.

It'll be a best seller and get more sales for your backlist! ;)

I hope you feel better soon. I know how hard those Blue Days are.

Love you.