We love soups!

While we were both home sick and recovering, we spent a lot of time preparing our all-round favorite food - soup, in all shapes and forms:

Ritesh's first home made chicken soup, entirely made from scratch, hours of work, but the best broth ever

the de-boned chicken and veggies that were boiled in the broth

and the horseradish sauce to eat with the veggies (right) plus a German-style cucumber salad (left) - Ritesh outdid himself that night!

Ritesh's famed home made miso soup (if you think miso soup is simple and easy, think again...)

and our first home made borscht, from a recipe 'from a kitchen in Moscow' that we found on some Ukrainian website. Very nice recipe, but it looks like our beets were more golden than ruby. And we made so much of it, I'm borschted out for the foreseeable future. Plus I don't think I'm that big a fan of dill, coming to think of it...