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Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Inaccurate Cooking With MikeLast year on this day I was ladling up my first spoonfuls of soljanka. Now I can make my own. All you need are:a number of tomatoes maybe 3 onions some capers 1 hand-sized salami "soup greens" -- z.B. thyme and coriander no more than two little cans of tomato paste 2 tbspns "soljanka" mix from the local open-air market (or just paprika) a bay leaf Boil soup greens in a couple of cups of water. Dice the salami into quarter-inch pieces, cut the onions fine. Sautee salami in butter, then dump it in with the soup greens. Sautee the onions in the butter and salami fat, then pour everything, fat and all, into the pot. Let this brew simmer long enough to dice the tomatoes. Add tomatoes, capers, and tomato paste. Then add enough water to keep the soup from tasting like ketchup. Stir in soljanka mix. Add a bay leaf. Simmer for an hour. Soljanka recipes differ from town to town in eastern Europe, or really from kitchen to kitchen, like borscht, so "inaccurate" is damn well close enough. The flavor should come from the paprika, onions, salami, and fresh tomatoes. Be ready to balance these ingredients when the time comes to add water. Extra spices and fresh tomatoes, in other words, can't hurt. Serve with sour cream, a lemon slice, and strong beer. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 11:27 AM
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