Comments on: We Got The Beets: Ginger-Kissed Borscht

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:56:51 +0000

Thanks, Fuzzy! My Preethi is still going strong, helping me make Indian food at least twice a week, more on most weeks.

Love it. You will love yours too, I am sure of it.

By: Fuzzy Chef

Fuzzy Chef — Wed, 25 May 2011 05:32:54 +0000

Barbara,

Wow, I’m glad to see you’re back! I’d stopped checking the site except that I just got at Preethi grinder as a birthday present, and then I noticed that you had new posts.

That’s like *two* birthday presents. Welcome back!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:53:19 +0000

Laura–”Bilbo” can usually chase any song that has been put on repeat on my brain radio out of my ears. But then, it installs itself on brain radio and refuses to be dislodged by anything less than the old Meow Mix commercial song.

I once spent a hellish week in teenhood with that horrific jingle stuck in my head. The only reason I didn’t stick an icepick in my ears is because I knew it wouldn’t go away even then. What dislodged that?

The theme from “Gilligan’s Island.”

The DJ that runs my brain radio station is a sadistic green gnome from the planet “Let’s Drive Barbara Slowly Crazy.” I call him Sid. We now have a detente which means we mostly leave each other alone.

However, I have learned that there is a way to shut Sid up. Listen to Yma Sumac. That will do it. He runs from her in terror.

By: Laura B.

Laura B. — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:33:21 +0000

Glad to know I’m not the only person who knows the bizarre horror that is “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins!” A lot of people know about William Shatner’s “Rocket Man,” but not as many are familiar with that one.

I loved beets as a kid, because they were sweet. I still love them!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:15:30 +0000

As I understand it, Maria, there was always a great deal of trade between China and Russia, and the center of that trade was in Harbin, China. That’s probably where the Russian community started and then after the revolution, it just got bigger. But, yes, that is the explanation for the Chinese version of borscht. It’s so cool that your grandparents lived there!