10 Cent Dinners? Really?

Obviously you can't buy anything these days for 10 cents, let alone a whole dinner. There are ways to enjoy a fancy shmancy meal not for a fancy shmancy price! Over the last 10 years I have fully immersed myself in to the food industry, either through my work or through school. Coming from a European back round food is a very important part of our family. We gather weekly around my grandmother's dinner table to unload about our lives. Having the experience of living on my own since I turned 18 and now being a mom, I had to find new and interesting ways to make cheap, healthy and of course delicious meals. Not all the meals on the blog will be healthy or cheap but they will be fun and an experience to remember. So to start us off with our first recipe I'm gonna take it back old school and give you the secret recipe to grandmother Cabbage Borscht.

Anna's Amazing Cabbage Borscht (Odessa style)

Ingredients:

1 Head of cabbage
2 Carrots
1 Large Onion
1 Beet
1 Bottle of crushed Tomato
2 Potatoes
1 Bunch of Dill
2 Cloves of Garlic
Water
Salt/Pepper to taste
Sugar to taste
Olive or Canola oil

Directions:

Slice the cabbage in half and reserve one half. Slice the remaining half in to thin long pieces and set aside. Clean and chop the carrots and potato in to 1inch. pieces and set aside in to 2 separate piles. Cube the onion. Peal the raw beat and cut into 4 pieces. On your stove set the burner to above medium and to your soup pot add the oil and let it heat up. Once the oil heats up add your onions and carrots and let them cook until the onions are soft and translucent. At this point you should add water to your pot, fill up your pot until the water reaches 3 fingers from the top. Add your beet, potatoes and cabbage. Stir everything and let it all come to a boil. Once it has come to a boil add the bottle of crushed tomato and lower heat. Now salt and pepper to taste. If you feel the soup taste to sour or to much like a tomato add 1 table spoon of sugar. Let cook until beets are soft. once the beets are soft remove them from the Borscht, and grate them into the Borscht. Once you beets have been grated finely chop your garlic and dill and add it in. Let this all cook together until and the vegetables are soft. Add more salt and pepper to taste and if needed a little bit more sugar, it shouldn't be sweet but you don't want it too taste too sour either. Serve hot or cold with a scoop of sour cream and a slice of bread. Enjoy!

* If you want to add meat, add chicken legs, brown the chicken legs in the pot before you add the onions and carrots. Once the meat is brown on both sides remove it and cook as per the directions adding your meat with the cabbage and the rest of the veg.*