Borscht

March 8th is a national holiday in Ukraine - Women's Day! (doesn't that sound like a great idea?) The fun part is, since the 8th falls on a Sunday Monday is the holiday off work and they start having parties on Friday. (the last work day) So they had a celebration at the orphanage Friday for the class to honor the workers. It was in the morning, so we came after the party for our morning visit. They made cards with flowers on them and handed out bunches of pussy willows to the women - it was sweet.



It seemed like they were eating non stop all day Friday. Right after the party (where they had apples and candy) it was lunch time. Then when we came in the afternoon he was having a snack of a cheese biscuit and a big glass of buttermilk. The kids were funny. They ate the cheese off of the biscuits and then started throwing them at each other! Then it was dinner time and the ladies were bringing in the pots of soup for dinner. It was a day of eating and we could really tell the difference in our boy. He was WIRED UP! All that sugar, I guess. He was a bundle of energy and it was a rainy day here so we had to play inside. It was crazy!


Yesterday Oksana was nice enough to teach me how to make borscht. It was so exciting for me. I figured that I need to know how to make some familiar food for this boy when we come home. We had picked up all of the ingredients at the market - beets, carrots, onions, cabbage, tomato paste, beef and potatoes. I wrote the recipe down in great detail so it can be re-created.


We also got fish at the market. Fish is really big here and there are rows and rows of it at the market. We will have to get some pictures for you next time we go. We got some salmon, trout and another type of smoked fish (unkown) and had that raw last night for dinner. It was yummy!! (see pictures below) Oksana also made a beet and carrot salad (cold salad). It was very tasty.....