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Chamomile Potato Soup

June 24, 2006
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Ingredients:

4 medium sized Yukon Gold Potatoes, peeled and cubed
1/2 vidalia onion, diced
1 large leek, chopped
2 tablespoons Adagio Chamomile tea
3 strips of bacon
6-8 cups of water

1. Place yukon gold potatoes in a large pot and cover with water. Add 1 tablespoon of fresh Chamomile tea to the pot and bring it to a boil.

2. Let boil for 1 minute, then turn down the heat. Let potatoes and chamomile simmer until potatoes are tender.

3. While potatoes are boiling, cook bacon in a frying pan. When bacon cooked, remove the bacon from the pan, but leave the grease. Set bacon aside.

4. Add leeks and onion to the frying pan. Cook until caramelized to a golden brown.

5. Drain cooked potatoes and set aside.

6. Add caramelized onions and leek to the potatoes along with remaining bacon fat. Add 4 cups water to the pot and the remaining tablespoon of chamomile.

7. Cover pot and simmer on a low heat for about 20 minutes.

8. Remove pot from heat and blend contents either with a hand blender or add to a standing blender and blend on medium speed until smooth. Serve hot or cooled.

Serves 4 - 6 people

For those of you who still read this blog, vote for my recipe starting on the 25th. You can vote at http://www.teachef.com. The soup is actually pretty tasty. I like potato soup in general.

For those of you who are vegetarian, you can modify the recipe to saute the onion and leek in olive oil instead of bacon fat. I prefer the bacon fat because it's fucking bacon and I love bacon. Yum.

Posted by Utopia at June 24, 2006 03:44 PM

Comments

Wow, I was wondering what you'd do for that recipe. How'd you decide on potatoes? Sounds excellent, though. I'm never that inventive in the kitchen. I can tweak recipes but come up with my own? Not so much.

Posted by: Ginger at June 24, 2006 04:52 PM

Well, I was perusing my cookbooks and found a recipe for chamomile leek soup. It didn't call for potatoes, but it got me to thinking. Apparently chamomile leek soup is a traditional italian dish.

I looked at the recipes other people were doing and a lot of people were doing things like scones and biscotti and stuff, but I thought I should do something different.

I chose the Yukon Golds because I thought that the color and flavor of the potato would accent the chamomile well.

I suppose I come up with recipes because I like food. A lot. I like to eat and I like to experiment. I think I have a good sense of what flavors go together well, maybe not. I grew up in a kitchen where no one used recipes except for very specific things. My mom made everything by eyeball and rarely measured anything. She could open the fridge and make up a recipe just by looking inside it. I suppose it's something I learned by environment. My little brother does the same thing. Of course, he took several years of cooking as well, so he is a bit more trained than I. I'm a hobbyist.

Posted by: Utopia at June 24, 2006 05:23 PM

That almost makes me want to stop being lazy and cook something. I have a like for potato soups. Except I dont like onions.

Posted by: YummY! at June 24, 2006 09:37 PM

That looks good..

I went and voted, good luck in the contest!

Posted by: WebKittyn at June 27, 2006 12:39 AM

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