(for god’s sake, do I really want to share this?)
Uuuuhhh… okay, the other night I was trying to do a quickie, half-arsed Borscht-test for the first time ever, and… it kinda kicked my arse?

Here’s the goods–
Ukrainian Borscht recipe, as shared here:
https://piefed.social/post/1960602

And… instead of powdering the bay leaves, or just leaving them intact, in a major-genius move, I decided to break them up in to chunks, for the soup, to better-quickly disseminate. I kinda just do that in general, because I like fibre in my diet, if that makes sense.

Flash-forward 45min, and my half-arsed Borscht-test absolutely came out BEAUTIFULLY. Like- total beet-taste, lovely potato chunks, nice cabbage-part, excellent seasonings (“hot,” as I always like it), no sugar added, and I was sooooo proud of myself.

Except that, my throat kept scratching for the next hour. I figured it was just one little bit that I needed to swallow down, and did all I could on that score. Then I figured that maybe I’d carelessly scratched-up my esophagus via whatever? Yeah well, whatever, that should heal fast, dude.

Except no-- it just didn’t go away, like a PITA post-nasal drip at its worst. (raise your hand…)

Eh, so after an hour of stupid mind-games such as that, something still seemed wrong at a fundamental level, so I grabbed my best, completely overpowered torch*, went to the bathroom mirror, and took a good, hard look. So far so good, everything seemed intact! Then I reached down to manually open my throat, and VOILA, the immediate prolonged hacking response, and a HUGE chunk of bay leaf I coughed up. oO

Holy shit, ma dudes. Bonus points for that chunk being hilariously Brasil-shaped roughly, as I’ve been listening to a lot of Bossa Nova lately. (I swear)

In any case, PLEASE be careful with yon Bay Leaf chunks out there, my friends. It’s really kind of a badass, in truth… oO

(note to myself: “good job, dude, now everyone across the Fediverse knows that you’re a complete idiot” XD)

* lithium-battery flashlight in this case, rather blinding in most cases

  • Gloomy@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Maybe i’m missing something here, but i’ve never in my life encountered a recipe where you’d let the bay leaves in the meal. The way i learned to use them you’d add a whole leaf or three at some point and remove them once the meal is finished. Maybe it’s a cultural thing? But it’s really wired to me to leave them in. I checked your recipe and it dosn’t say anything about removing them.

    So you actually eat them?