Set the oven at 275 and roasted them for two hours. There’s a lot of liquid and it cooked out. I put that in a blender right then it was delicious just like that.

Have you ever had tomato water? There's an authentic Italian restaurant nearby and the chef makes a dressing by taking fresh tomatoes and draining the liquid out of them and using that as a dressing base. Out of this world.

I've never tried that. I bet that adds some depth, especially the beef.

But its a chef's secret ingredient I learned a long time ago. Used to be better when it had actual Sauterne in it but someone got their panties in a wad and they took it out.

Chicken broth + beef broth is a great combo. Especially for French onion soup.

have hamburger cooked and in the freezer microwaved it for one minute
add onions and garlic in a frypan for just a minute or two ...
then add to crockpot
2 beef bouillon cubes in 2 cups of water microwaved
1 bag of mixed veggies
2 small can of crushed tomatoes
4 potatoes cut up
Italian seasonings and garlic pepper
put in crockpot put on high ...
will see how it turns out ... really cold here in NC
and wanted some soup ...
its like 30 and with windchill its below zero ....

To cook the hamburg then freeze it. That has got to be my least favorite thing - browning hamburg meat . Does it taste any different frozen? Guess in a soup it'd be hard to tell the difference

But we use it in soup … pasta sauce.. pizza etc

That makes it easy to brown hamburg... Like to separate into small pieces

let it cool and put in ziplock bags ... easy peasy

of meat, right?. I am too impatient

chunks so brown in batches ...

The word " batches" horrifies me

Just chop away while browning

One pot with Polish sausage and one with smoked turkey (for my non-red meat eater). I'll let you know how it comes out!! It sure smells good for a cold day!

It's in the mid-30s here in Cental Florida! Crazy.... but worry about all my friends up north. Hoping everyone is ok.

The hubs gave rave reviews... 🎉 We'll add some garlic bread and parmesan cheese, and dinner is done!

Thanks for the recipe!

Is just eyeballing it huh. Gotta have polish meal tonight, Christmas Eve tradition. Perogies kielbasa sauerkraut

Blankets no heat no lights. But at least they had 4 walls ( not like the immigrants and homeless) and luckily crews restored it last night.

Those of us with heat and power are truly the fortunate ones this holiday. I hope they will be ok. That's terrifying.

girl learning from my grandmother ( Ukrainian). But can never seem to replicate Like with chicken soup, my mom told me you could never replicate because back in the day you'd go to the butcher and buy fresh fowl.

Ukrainian Mother and Grandmother cook.. Very simple hardy foods.
Not a tweezer or micro green in sight... They were just basic good home cooks. Mom also worked in small restaurants and "Luncheonettes" and got a lot of good ideas there. She never stuck to a recipe. That was just a guide and then she would take off from there.
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What did you make? My dad's side is Polish and from what I can gather all those countries shared a lot with minor differences. stuffed cabbage? Funny, as kids, think we just made up names of things like we thought was right in English.. goo-wump-key

Besides perfect chicken soup my other goal is perfect Borscht. Do you make that?

There was always a pot sitting on the back burner, just warm.. Come in from the cold? 4 PLEASE!!
Poppy seed banik, a version of a poppyseed roll.. Delish. As a kid borscht looked too creapy but today I love it...Chicken stew was always a favorite with tons of paprika and garlic.. Fried potato Latkes/fritters/Draniki with a Ukraine flair.. Any foods that were fresh and cheap MOm would make a feast out of it..
I remember lots of potato and cabbage dishes and alcohol
Lots of drinking during the holidays... Not us kids of course.
Pops side of the family was from Belarus so the foods were basically the same... Never met any of them. Lost in the Holocaust.. I bet they had some good recipes..
Це свято, їж добре, друже.... This holiday, Eat well my friend...
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