Borscht, The Beefy Version
From notyourmomma 10 years ago
- 6-8 hours on low to make
- Serves 8
A hearty remix of leftover pot roast and fresh baked beets and garlic into a steaming bowl borscht. Borscht Belt humor refers to the rapid-fire, often self-deprecating style common to many of these performers and writers. Read more Typical themes include Bad luck: "When I was a kid, I was breast-fed by my father." (Dangerfield) Puns: "Sire, the peasants are revolting!" "You said it. They stink on ice." (Harvey Korman as Count de Money (Monet) and Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI, in History of the World Part I) Physical complaints and ailments (often relating to bowels and cramping): "My doctor said I was in terrible shape. I told him, 'I want a second opinion.' He said, 'All right, you're ugly too!'" "I told my doctor, 'This morning when I got up and saw myself in the mirror, I looked awful! What's wrong with me?' He replied, 'I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect!'" (Dangerfield) Aggravating relatives and nagging wives: "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." (Dangerfield). "Take my wife—please!" (Henny Youngman); "My wife drowned in the pool because she was wearing so much jewelry." (Rickles); "My wife ain't too bright. One day our car got stolen. I said to her, 'Did you get a look at the guy?' She said, 'No, but I got the license number.'" (Dangerfield) "This morning the doorbell rang. I said 'Who is it?' He said 'It's the Boston strangler.' I said 'It's for you dear!'" (Youngman) See less
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 cups of shredded leftover pot roast, with some of onions/tomatoes and broth from the crockpot. (I used the trailer trash pot roast recipe) shopping list
- 5 large beets, oven roasted and chopped shopping list
- 5 cloves of garlic, roasted with the beets. shopping list
- 1 raw yellow onion, blitzed in the mini cuisinart chopper shopping list
- 1 small package of sauerkraut 6 oz. undrained shopping list
- 1 small package of shredded carrots (4 oz.) shopping list
- 5 small yellow thin skinned potatoes cubed shopping list
- 1/2 cup of white wine shopping list
- 1 cups of beef broth low salt shopping list
- 2 cups of v-8 juice low sodium shopping list
- 1 tbsp of celery salt shopping list
- 1 tbsp of dill weed shopping list
- 1/2 tbsp of black pepper shopping list
- 1/8 cup of brown sugar. just to taste, I wanted a more soured flavor reminiscent of sauerbraten and used just a little brown sugar. I served my bowl with an extra splash of red wine vinegar to make it POP! shopping list
How to make it
- Combine all in crockpot and cook on low until carrots and potatoes are tender. Adjust for salt to taste and serve hot with sour cream and chopped dill garnish. It is a winter borscht. Summer borscht is meat free and only veggies, without chunks. My winter version is very hearty and full of chunks veggies and beefy broth. If I had one, I would have pulverized a can of beets and added it to the soup...to pump the "BEET" flavor, but no such luck in my pantry. Fred and Olivia ate several helpings. It was just sweet/sour dill/beet enough to satisfy on a very cold night.
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