[cooking]Potato Soup
Julia Child's first recipe in ' Mastering the Art of French Cooking' is a very simple potato soup. It consists of 3-4 cups sliced potatoes, 3 cups sliced leeks, a tablespoon of salt and eight cups of water. Combine, boil for 45 minutes, mash, combine two tablespoons of butter and voila -- potato soup.
Yeah. Right.
The first problem may be that I explicitly ignore Julia's advice and stick this concoction in a blender. Julia says that makes look like baby food ; I say I'm a preschool teacher, and soup is supposed to look like baby food. ( I don't mention that my blender has no lid, and that some splattering did occur during the use of a paper plate. The burn marks aren't noticeable anymore )
The second problem is that I've made this before, and thought it needed something--specifically, chedder cheese, because hey, why not? So I added some chedder cheese to a small portion of it, and made... something that wasn't really that good.
But the thought is there! And the rest of the soup is resting in the freezer, because it tastes just as good ( if not better ) as leftovers.
Yeah. Right.
The first problem may be that I explicitly ignore Julia's advice and stick this concoction in a blender. Julia says that makes look like baby food ; I say I'm a preschool teacher, and soup is supposed to look like baby food. ( I don't mention that my blender has no lid, and that some splattering did occur during the use of a paper plate. The burn marks aren't noticeable anymore )
The second problem is that I've made this before, and thought it needed something--specifically, chedder cheese, because hey, why not? So I added some chedder cheese to a small portion of it, and made... something that wasn't really that good.
But the thought is there! And the rest of the soup is resting in the freezer, because it tastes just as good ( if not better ) as leftovers.