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  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That's what my 10-year
  old daughter said.&nbsp;She's right, you know, and she should know. At
  harvest time, I bring in bushels of wholesome if uninspiring vegetables from
  our 15 by 30-foot garden.&nbsp;You might think that &quot;bushels&quot; is a
  figure of speech, but just ask my indentured laborers: my son and
  daughter.&nbsp;They will confirm every word, especially that
  &quot;bushel&quot; part.&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Well,
  &quot;uninspiring&quot; is perhaps a tad misleading, for mounds of produce
  piled on our kitchen counters, table, floors and hallways has in fact inspired
  me to many a great culinary adventure.&nbsp;For instance, take my beets.
  Please. (Sorry, Mr. Youngman.)&nbsp; We have a clay-laden soil that beets
  evidently love, and they showed us their affection annually.&nbsp;Only
  problem is, nobody in the family really likes beets.&nbsp;I've planted them
  because they grow so well.&nbsp;Not the best reason, perhaps, but what can I
  say?&nbsp; I'm a cheapskate, and free food by the hundredweight really
  appeals to me.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And, in the case of beets
  with the family, to no one <b><i>but </i></b>me.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>There are not a lot of
  ways to prepare beets: boiled, served with vinegar (I'm a former Vermonter,
  eh-yah.); cold, in beet salad like my Dad made; and in borscht.&nbsp;I'm sure
  my children rue the day I learned to make borscht from a pastor in <st1:place
  w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Chester</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Vermont</st1:State></st1:place>.&nbsp;
  He'd invited me for lunch, and put a bowl of (I
  -didn't-quite-know-what-but-Mom-always-taught-me-to
  eat-whatever-I-was-served-especially-when-I-was-a-guest) soup in front of
  me.&nbsp; I tried some of the hot purple stew, declining the sour cream
  proffered by my host.&nbsp; As I had no expectations, I was doubly delighted
  with the taste, and polished off several <span class=SpellE>bowlsful</span>.&nbsp;There
  was no need to feign appetite; it was really good.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>That was the start of my
  avocation as The Baron of Borscht.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To make borscht, you also
  need cabbage. That's easy enough to come up with, as it's always cheap to buy
  in autumn. Alternatively, you can scavenge along a rural roadside for
  cabbages that have fallen off farm trucks. (Don't knock it until you've tried
  it.&nbsp;You are going to cook it anyway, so calm down.)</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>You also need onions,
  some spices such as basil (fresh if possible), oregano, a bay leaf, pepper,
  and salt.&nbsp;I add a little olive oil for flavor, instead of throwing in
  some meat like my pastor friend did. His wife added a secret ingredient:
  about a cup of tomato paste.&nbsp;This, she maintained, improved not only the
  taste but also the color of the borscht, reducing the soup's otherwise
  intimidating purple to a rather inviting magenta.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
  </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <br>
  </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If you are unusually
  inexperienced in the kitchen, I will add that you also need water.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Boil all this up, and
  there you are: cheap, healthy, ethnic and plentiful.&nbsp;I like borscht, and
  I've had some of the best, and made by genuine Russians, too. At Holy Trinity
  Monastery, the beautiful Orthodox church and farm in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
   w:st="on"><span class=SpellE>Jordanville</span></st1:City>, <st1:State
   w:st="on">New York</st1:State></st1:place>, try to stick around long enough
  for the monks to ask you for dinner.&nbsp;They may make the best borscht in <st1:place
  w:st="on">North America</st1:place>.&nbsp;I have Polish acquaintances that
  would dispute this, however, one going so far as to attempt to instruct me in
  distinguishing between different types of borscht. This apparently can become
  almost an exercise in taxonomy: there is white borscht, red borscht, <span
  class=GramE>something</span> pronounced &quot;<span class=SpellE>baar-scht</span>&quot;
  as opposed to &quot;boor-<span class=SpellE>scht</span>,&quot; and on and on.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>But nobody but me makes
  aphid borscht, and back to my confession.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My particular variation
  on the borscht theme is to add broccoli, another vegetable my soil (if you
  can call it that) will yield in quantity.&nbsp;There are zillions of ways to
  cook broccoli, of course (and don't forget raw, with dips or in
  salads).&nbsp;Still, when you fill an entire freezer with broccoli and there
  is still more a-<span class=SpellE>comin</span>', you have to use this green
  stuff up somehow.&nbsp; I, of course, toss it in the soup, which includes my
  minestrone, pea soup, and lentil soup as well as borscht.&nbsp;</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Now being a natural kind
  of guy, I do not use pesticides.&nbsp;No need for any chemical bug-killers
  with broccoli or beets, or, for that matter, anything else that I grow:
  lettuce, green beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes or even raspberries.&nbsp;Nope,
  just good-old-fashioned cow manure, or grass clippings, or compost, or some
  cheap fertilizer from Wal-Mart. Or all of the above.&nbsp;You too can be
  drowning in fresh food.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Here's a trick to double
  your broccoli harvest: after you pick the first few batches of florets, let
  the broccoli plant stay rooted and growing in your garden.&nbsp;It will
  probably bloom again, and maybe even again after that. Broccoli is tough and
  fairly frost-resistant.&nbsp;I live just south of the Canadian border,
  remember, and even I can get multiple broccoli harvests up to Thanksgiving.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If you do not spray your
  broccoli, you do get some wildlife living in it. Broccoli caterpillars,
  always quite small, happen to be exactly the color of broccoli itself.&nbsp;They
  are thus quite invisible to the salad eater. Fortunately. Or not, depending
  on your point of view. My daughter wishes to share with the world a Great
  Truth that she believes she has personally uncovered for all time: broccoli
  caterpillars turn yellow when cooked.&nbsp; So the simple way to get rid of
  them is to lightly steam your broccoli, and the now-yellow critters will be
  easy to spot.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>At this juncture, you
  must think that I wantonly fed my family half of the world's insect
  species.&nbsp;That is only partly true.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>
  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We did eat the aphids.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Not intentionally, mind
  you.&nbsp;It's just that aphids are extremely tiny, and they literally stick
  together and to broccoli stems, up under the florets where they know you are
  not looking.&nbsp;Even cooking fails to dislodge them, for their little
  boiled corpses are to be found in their hundreds still clinging to broccoli
  spears.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Some will fall off, and
  float in, say, your borscht.&nbsp;And this brings us to the day when my
  daughter bravely insisted to me that there were bugs in her soup.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>&quot;No,&quot; I
  asserted with all my science-teacher authority, &quot;Those are not
  bugs.&nbsp;That's oregano.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My daughter was utterly
  unconvinced, and upon looking very, very closely, uttered the line,
  &quot;Oregano doesn't have legs, Dad.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:
  11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>So she was right.&nbsp;
  Big deal!?&nbsp; Well, yes. I realized that in my organic zeal, I had failed
  to be fair to my family.&nbsp;Perhaps it is not right to feed your kids
  bugs.&nbsp; (This story got out, by the way, and echoes of it can still be
  heard throughout the school district.)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I came up with a chemical-free
  solution, though: a week or so before broccoli harvest, I will drop one of my
  many unemployed, idle and hungry spiders onto each broccoli plant.&nbsp;Returning
  as soon as the next day, there are no more aphids to be seen.&nbsp;Yes, I
  like spiders. Insect bites annoy me more than most people, and insect damage
  to crops pleases no one.&nbsp;So when anybody finds a spider roaming idly
  around the house, they stick an upturned glass over it to save it for
  me.&nbsp;What they do not know is that I put these spiders in the garage and
  the basement, where they quietly prosper, waiting to be called up to the big
  leagues outdoors.&nbsp;My supply is thus assured.</span><span
  style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
  <p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I'd like to add that
  spiders are basically quite harmless little guys.&nbsp;Even tarantulas are
  incapable of doing any serious harm to a person, James Bond movies
  notwithstanding. If you are very sensitive to bug bites, have a known medical
  condition, or handle Black Widows, the rules are of course different.&nbsp;
  But even I do not actually handle the spiders.&nbsp;You can move them about
  to your heart's content with a cup, a scrap of <span class=GramE>cardboard,</span>
  or gloved hands.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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  yard, you can see the dew drops on several dozen spider webs. I think of them
  as my employees. They eat insects, and they work cheap.&nbsp;Put them to
  work, and sit back.&nbsp;Your broccoli, like mine, will no longer shelter the
  bugs that your little princess won't, for some reason, eat.</span><span
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