I finally made my borscht, and it is a lovely, lovely beet soup! Ahhhh! Delicious and a half!

I have found, though, that not all veggies are created equal, and, for me, cabbage is not a dark, green, leafy vegetable. Indeed, the one I used was almost completely white. (They were all like that at the store.)

I love borscht, but because of the cabbage, it doesn't like me. And I'm desperately eating my kale (steamed, with balsamic vinegar--yummy!) to see if it cannot stem the battle going on inside me. I have been to the store tonight (where a bunch of kale is a thrifty $1.00!) and purchased reinforcements.

It's a matter of balance, y'know. I still have a significant amound of borscht left, but, like Alice, if I eat a little of this side and then a little of that side, I might meet a happy medium in the middle. (That is, if I jump from a Lewis Carroll book--Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--to a Madeleine L'Engle book--A Wrinkle in Time.)