An Obsession with Leeks

Posted on March 1st, 2008 by likeasaladinabowl.
Categories: Uncategorized.

In a recent dinner conversation, over rosemary-orange chicken served with rice and Mexican Zucchini stuffed with leeks and tomatoes, one friend commented on the book “French Women don’t get Fat.” Her observation was that leeks do not taste, and to make soup with them was like unto boiling water with grass. Now, the recipe for “miracle soup” which appears in “French Women don’t get Fat” has not been scrutinized by myself. Rather, quickly read over, it sounded scrumptious. Thus, when asking how her soup was made it sounded something like this:

Clean some leeks
put them in water
boil
add salt and seasonings of some sort
eat

Some people might enjoy that kind of leek soup. And done well, it might even be good. But most humans do not like boiled green things floating in water that tastes exactly like boiled water. So.

Clean some leeks, chopping off most of the leaves. I personally think they add flavor, and if anything its fun to eat leaves. But if you’d rather not, save them for future chicken stock.
Cover the leeks with water, then double that with chicken broth.
Add salt and pepper, and for extra excitement throw in 2 or 3 thinly sliced potatoes
boil until both potatoes and leeks are cooked
pour into the blender and blend until its a smooth consistency
pour it back into the pot, and add about 1/3 to 1/2 cup of heavy cream
and voila!
Enjoy with a baguette, loaded with butter

To make food taste good, you do not need to load it with spices and herbs and different things. Rather, load it with simple things that contain good hearty flavor already. Thus the stock.

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