Melba's Jammin' wrote on 29 Dec 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> When I prepared the Ham For Eternity last week, I fixed too many sides:
> broccoli, scalloped potatoes, baked beans, red cabbage (OK, Rob fixed
> the red cabbage).

What?!?? No beets...Shame on you


I'd used three potatoes for the dish and I doubt we
> ate the equivalent of one of them. We have leftovers of all but the
> beans.
>
> My plan is to do a Musgovian Potato-Broccoli Soup.

Borscht is a real easy starter for mustgovian soup...But requires Beets.

I'm figuring to fry
> some bacon slices and then fry up some diced onion in the little bacon
> fat that this stuff will give up. Then I'll heat the (soupy, btw)
spuds,
> mash or stick-blend them some and add the broccoli (I'll chop the
> too-big for soup pieces), and maybe some half and half and/or chicken
> broth and garnish with the cooked bacon pieces. Heat to a simmer,
grind
> little pepper and I'm thinking Gloria will wish I was cooking in her
> kitchen while she and DH shovel out. I may sneak some shredded cheese
> into the soup just because. (I deleted the rest of that last thought
> because it was not very charitable.)
>
> Sounds like a pretty good supper, doesn't it? It probably isn't what
> anyone else might serve with the leftover gyros from yesterday's lunch
> at the Midtown Global Market location of Holy Land Deli, but I don't
> much care about that. Unless it's Bubba Vic who scoffs and then I'll
> be penitent. <coughchokegasp> Yeah, right.
>
> I could add some ham bits, but I the bacon is verging on the Musgovian,
> too.