With all the ingredients in the pot, it's time to let it simmer and the flavors to blend together.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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Annie Cappelli grew up in a Ukrainian household where Borscht was a comfort food and a staple.
Fr. Ian Delinger
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The final outcome: bowls of steaming hot Borscht with sour cream and dill for garnish, sopped up with bread.
Fr. Ian Delinger
The siege on Ukraine is an atrocity playing out before our very eyes. How are local Ukrainians coping? Canadian-Ukrainian Annie Capelli makes Ukrainian Borscht for Fr. Ian as she describes the scene in Ukraine that her family and friends are endeavoring to endure.
Fr. Ian Delinger currently serves as Rector at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in San Luis Obispo. He was born on the Central Coast, and was raised in both rural western Nebraska and on the Central Coast. He studied Chemistry at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Then, he moved to the Silicon Valley where he was as a project manager in a consulting firm which specializes in environmental, health and safety issues for the semiconductor manufacturing industry and other high technology industries, followed by a couple of stints in corporate events management and marketing.