Breakfast of Soup

I was in Slovakia working and stayed in a workers apartment very proletariat and nothing in which to cook anything for me this is always a problem. Every morning I would go to Cafe and eat breakfast. Our idea of breakfast doesn't apply. I would get a coffee type drink made from grain that was over roasted in the absence of oxygen to make a dark coffee like drink, it was served very hot basically to burn out your taste buds. Good bread was every wear its the only thing I saw that they do better at than we do. A bowl of hot potato soup, cabbage soup or hot beet soup for breakfast were the only choices, funny how you miss little things, it was really quite good in fact better than bacon eggs.

  Breakfast Borscht  

2 medium meaty soup bones beef or pork or chicken or ?
4 qt. water
2 medium onions cut in thin strips
5 potatoes cubed
1 head of cabbage cut into 7 inch chunks
1 bunch parsley chopped
2 large carrots shredded
1 bunch beets shredded
1 splash (shot glass) red wine vinegar
1 heaping tablespoon sugar   2 cloves garlic, mashed
Salt and pepper to taste  
Bring water and soup bones to a boil until tender this will give you your base stock you should have four quarts of liquid after you have made base stock. Add potatoes, parsley and salt. In a separate deep pan, saute onions until transparent.  Add beets, carrots, and vinegar in this pan and cook until soft.  Add to water with potatoes and parsley, then add cabbage.  Turn off heat, add garlic, add salt and pepper as necessary.  When reheating do not boil or the bright red color will be lost.  

I have included a picture I found on net for comparison of color I/e the soup when finished should be "reddish" if it is more of a gray color you have over cooked it while still edible it looses some of the nuances.