This recipe has flavour, and is quick and easy to make.
I’ve tried other versions of Leek and Potato soup, but found them too white-floury and leek-and-potato-ish. The overall effect was a little goopy and bland. This one is quite tasty!
Ingredients;
- 3 large, or 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced.
- 2 leeks, chopped.
- 4 cups (1 litre) chicken stock
- handful of diced bacon
- optional cream and garlic
Method;
1.Cook bacon and leeks (and garlic if desired) over gentle heat, until leeks are soft. Keeping it soft means it will blend nicely, without chewy bits in your soup.
2. Add chicken stock and potatoes, bring to the boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 mins.
3. Blend until smooth, add cream to serve (or not – either way is nice!)
Enjoy!
Aug 25, 2008 @ 22:32:00
Hmmm.
This looks delicious and I find myself whistfully awaiting the winter months just to be able to feed this to the hungry crowds!
Aug 25, 2008 @ 22:55:22
We made this for lunch today, and it was delicious!
One poor blossom at our house is recovering from oral surgery, so we have been eating a lot of soup. It is still sufficiently chilly here, though, that it is no great burden.
Aug 27, 2008 @ 01:21:40
Mmmm…looks good! I’m putting it on my list of cool weather dinners. Ah, can’t wait ’til the weather starts to change here! Thanks for sharing.
Aug 27, 2008 @ 11:58:36
OH! Too bad about the surgery-I hope your Dolly is feeling better soon. I see now why you seem to have soup on the brain!
Aug 27, 2008 @ 13:32:44
LOL! Yes, Dandelionmom, it is all about soup at present. We had cream of broccoli today, and apart from the extra clean up (it’s my chief wash up girl out of action
) it feels very nurturing to be having soup for lunch each day.
So of course, your post had a double trigger – all the soups we’ve been making, and the canning demo on youtube I found after reading your post.
Aug 27, 2008 @ 15:42:32
Hey, beyondblue, please forward us the youtube demo on canning! How can you keep the good stuff for yourself?
Hope your patient is doing well and ready for some bbq koala (or whatever it is you guys grill over there!)…
Aug 27, 2008 @ 20:08:39
Well my friend, just for you, here is the link to the canning video. I can’t tell if it is a good one or not, because other than the Dandelionmom’s canning tutorial, I am bereft of canning knowledge.
As for that BBQ Koala, we are a beef eatin’ family, it so happens. You can order grilled kangaroo in several swishy restaurants here, and you can even purchase it at our local supermarket if you feel so inclined, but, not only do I not particularly like the taste of it (though it is very lean), there seems something intrinsically wrong with devouring a representation from our coat of arms.
Koalas are fairly safe though; way too cute to munch!
Aug 28, 2008 @ 00:35:12
That soup they made looks disgusting!! green goo! NOTHING with flavour in it at all-except that bland fish at the end-and a chive or 2–NO thankyou! gimmee an onion or SOMETHING to work with people!
I loooove calling them courgettes though-so very swanky! I will be sticking to “Petal approved” soups here!
Aug 28, 2008 @ 05:04:26
You ladies are hillarious!
In Canada you can get Beaver Tails… just thought I would throw in my two cents… (Beavers are our national animal, incase some reader out there did not know… *smile*).
So, Dandilion, ever made up a batch of Eagle Saté? With peanut sauce? Hm? Crispy on the barby?
Aug 28, 2008 @ 08:50:56
Beaver tails? Beaver TAILS? You slay your national emblem for only the tail? What a heartless bunch you Canadians must be! Or, is there just a lot of tail-less beavers running around Canada?
Aug 28, 2008 @ 08:56:41
Dandelionmom, I agree that the soup sounds bland. I’m thinking you would have to dose it up with garlic, or maybe some curry? But I will have to leave that mystery (of how to improve zucchini soup) to your Dandelionself, as we have never experienced a courgette surfeit in these parts. We do the urban thing, and buy them at the shops!
Aug 28, 2008 @ 13:46:01
I really think I’m gonna hafta skip the soup! I can always let the chickens reprocess them into yummy eggs for me instead!
Anitz that is just SICK! LOLOL-it would also land you in JAIL!–A huge majestic raptor with a 15 ft wingspan canNOT be classified with bark-eating rodents OR marsupials for that matter! Plus- have you seen what kinds of things they EAT?!? bleh! They are also mighty SCARY up close and personal. Did you actually EAT a beaver tail or is it one of those things everyone jokes about? We do Bison on an occasion and venison whenever a hunter friend shares-YUM!
These comments have strayed a mighty fair distance from the subject no? LOL
Aug 28, 2008 @ 17:10:52
I declare: we are still “on topic”, especially since topic is “food”!
No, I have never eaten Beaver Tails, just saw them being sold and I just found you and your lurkers *smile, I know you are out there* proof as well as a recepie online! Here!
I must say, perhaps I even try the recepie over here in Germany… they do have beavers here too!
(And Dandilionmom, I choose to take your national pride in your hairless eagle (or is it “bald eagle”?) as a result of collective brainwashing and ignore the undertones of one-up-manship in your proclaiming the Canadian national animal to be a mere “rodent”, bark-eating no less! To state my position clearly: all animals are created equal and are wonderful in God’s sight, bark-eating rodents are equal to bald raptors and marsupials. If one is worthy to represent a country, then all are… and NOW we are off-topic! *smile* All parenthesis please take with a good sense of humour!)
Aug 28, 2008 @ 18:01:35
Honestly Anitz!! You are SUCH a cheeky woman!! I should have suspected you!
After reading your beaver tail recipes, I think we will give those a go here in Australia too, LOL!!
And here I was, imagining all those little tail-less beavers running over Canada, embarrassed about their loss…
Ah, Mrs Dandelionmom and her national pride. (wink!) Do you think she doesn’t count kangaroos, and (chuckle) beavers, as majestic? LOL!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 01:30:33
I am cheeky?
I take offence to that (and a gate while we are at it). I mean, the patriotic Americans get away with pretty much anything these days…
Long live the huge, majestic bark-eating rodent!!!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 01:35:45
TOOOO FUNNY!! I could go for a coupla beaver tails myself!-They sound a lot like the bear claws my aunt used to make.
As far as national pride goes….can one help it if SOME animals are more equal than others?? (big wink,tongue in cheek and nod to George Orwell!!) You really need some emoticons available here if we are going to tease!!!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 04:10:31
Hm, congratulations Beyondbluestockings, you have now reached position ONE (in numbers: 1) on Go.ogle search for the term:
“Eagle Saté”,
another first place (in writing: 1) for “majestic bark-eating rodent”
and last but certainly not least, you have reached the very top of a Go.ogle search for the term “bald raptors”…
To sum up a small post from Beyond Blue Stockings: This is a happening place!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 07:00:18
Anitz, you’ve made me famous, LOL! All those people out there googling, (ahem!) “majestic bark-eating rodent”, which I know is going to happen daily, and all the dissenting Americans (the one’s whose national pride is waning, not the good, patriotic souls like our Mrs Dandelion) who google “Eagle Sate” and “bald raptors”….pretty soon will be asking for my autograph!
But Dandelionmom, before I reach celebrity status, you might have to tell me (blush!) how to make the emoticons available?
Aug 29, 2008 @ 12:26:56
LOL!! I nearly googled for an eagle carrying away a beaver and a bottle of BBQ sauce but I refrained! (you know it’s there-everything else is!)
I have NO IDEA how you turn those on–I am on wordpress too and they just always worked-in fact they work everywhere else I care to comment on wordpress-I just always thought you had them turned OFF somewhere!
Thanks for the laughs today ladies-it was a HOOT–I mean a majestic screeeetch and a tailslap!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 15:28:58
Potato-leek-bacon-soup, this is what heaven is all about, am I correct, ladies?
Beyondbluestockings, Google famed Bloggist from Australia, who would have suspected you receive 20 comments on soup?
It can only be explained by the term “divine intervention”!
Ladies, whoever makes it to heaven first: put the kettle on, I am coming too and we’ll have us a whole mess of Beaver Tails, sit at Jesus’s side (he would LOVE Beaver Tails, or am I not allowed to speculate on that?) and finally get to know each other!
You know this is the best life!
Aug 29, 2008 @ 21:32:24
Thank you, my good friends. How would I get 20 comments on my humble soup post without you?
Anitz, I will be looking forward to that time in glory, when we will see Him face to face, and I will have the added joy of meeting my sisters in Christ.
I don’t, however, plan on waiting till glory, to try out those beaver tails!
Aug 30, 2008 @ 03:30:32
((Dare I say it? Shhhh. I will say it very, *V*E*R*Y*, *V*E*R*Y* quietly: You probably find a corner in heaven with Eagle Saté and Peanut sauce… *duck and run*))
Aug 30, 2008 @ 08:03:15
Hey! Don’t forget the kangaroos!
You will possibly find these delectable little offerings in the section for adventurous gastronomes…
Medallions of Kangaroo Saltimbocca with Marsala Cream on Caramelised Onion Tart
Herb & caraway crusted Kangaroo escalopes on soft olive polenta
Roast Kangaroo on a bed of creamed spatzle with cassis glaze, and glazed shallots
If you’re thinking that perhaps the Australians could be on the mark, that eating your (unofficial) national animal is o.k. if you can make it sound tasty enough, you can check out some of the more creative ways we eat our national icon here;
http://www.kangaroo-industry.asn.au/recipes/recipe_frame.htm
(and just to clear up any confusion, we don’t have an official national animal, though the kangaroo and emu are on our coat of arms. Each state has it’s own animal, flower, and bird emblem.)
Jul 30, 2012 @ 21:02:16
We aussies will eat just about anything that is made of meat+some spices,mate from canada,gave me a bottle of his special batch he has sent out,we have it on anything+ garlic,pepper,maggi marinade,if it lived it is made to eat,don’t knock it till you try it.
Jan 10, 2013 @ 11:31:02
Thank ya for shring this! Luv it.