Potential Borshch

Last week, I bought some yogurt, as cold yogurt goes well with hot borshch, and also contains protein. The plan depended on buying beets at the farmers’ market on April fourth, but the vendor who had had beets for sale wasn’t there, perhaps on account of the rainy weather. I’m hoping to find beets this weekend, and make borshch, which may depend on Sunday being unlike today; we have had heavy rain basically all day.

Someone asked about borshch on Quora, and the answer elucidated the differences between Russian and Ukrainian borshch, the Russian version typically using beef, and the Ukrainian version being more likely to use pork or chicken. Also, Russian borshch is typically eaten with sour cream, and Ukrainian borshch with lard. I don’t think I would want extra lard with my borshch even if I were not a vegetarian. Probably no country in Eastern Europe has a tradition of eating soy yogurt with borshch, but that is what I hope to do! As I have done before, even if this form of fusion cuisine offends the purists.

And slava Ukraini, heroiam slava!

The Red Queen’s Race

This week, an After Final amendment showed up on my Expedited docket, so I dealt with that, and am now back to four amendments on my Amended docket, and nothing on my Expedited docket.

I also finished and posted an Office Action on the oldest (only) Request for Continued Examination case on my Regular New docket, and have done some work on the oldest non-RCE Regular New application.