Potato leek soup, with bread bowls

Whee! I made potato leek soup and bread bowls to put it in. I also made the vegetable stock with which to make the soup.

It was all pretty successful. The stock was not as rich as last time. Leeks are strange; I have never worked with them before and I never realized you use so little of them! The soup pureed into, well, exactly what I wanted potato soup to be like all the time.

The bread bowls were something of a last minute idea, and I took every shortcut I could to make this. I used a basic hearth bread recipe, and more or less divided what would be two regular boules into three. These were about the right size. They barely got a rise before I shaped them, and they finished shaping just in time to be cooked. The bread ended tasting surprisingly good!

And now I am so full!

Posted by chris at March 16, 2005 12:19 AM