The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for all of. It goes without saying that the most memorable part about of our club is our community, getting to hang out with one another, and sharing in our culture. Unfortunately, COVID has made gathering together virtually impossible. As our executive team sat at home alone, missing each-other and missing our zabavas, we consoled ourselves the only way we knew how. With a warm bowl of borsch of course! It was then that we were struck with an idea! Borsch is the quintessential heart of the Ukrainian Community, why not use it to bring us together once again! This past weekend we did just that. We hosted a very successful virtual borsch workshop hosted by our President Chase Gargus. We were very excited about this event as it was our first interactive virtual event on zoom. We were a little nervous at first, but wow where we blown away by the support from our community! We had attendees from across Canada, and even some from the United States (that's right! We even got some yankee ukies to attend).
Chase likes to think of himself as a self-professed borsch master so he was of course, very excited to share his recipe with our members. If you ask him, he'll tell you that he’s specifically fine tuned his recipe from years of cooking for his friends and family. He jokingly credits his mother for his cooking prowess, not because she taught him how to make it, rather that he had to teach her. All jokes aside, we’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone who tuned in to make borsch with us. Borsch is at the heart of every Ukrainian family and feeds the soul of Ukrainians across the diaspora. We really do consider our members to be a part of our family and we hope that with every spoonful of borsch, your time in quarantine gets a little bit warmer. If you’d like to try out our borsch for yourself, check out the full recipe here Here’s a tip from Chase to you: “You’ll know your borsch turned out right if you can stand a spoon up in the centre of the pot” Check out some of our attendees' final products:
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