16 August 2008
Coming just under the wire for the eleventh week of OLS! I was pretty tired all of Thursday, and by the time eight o'clock rolled around, I was ready to crawl in bed. Instead, I went out to the garden, dug up some onions and grabbed some chives and made soup.
My potato plants died off really early for some reason, so I dug up the potatoes last week (having JUST bought a basketful from the farmers market, of course). I didn't get many from my plants -- two kilos, max, I would guess -- but they're pretty good. Yukon golds. I cooked some onions in olive oil, added the sliced potatoes (about 600g worth), and then a box of vegetable stock. Once the potatoes were tender, I mashed them (still in the cooking pot, over the flame) with my potato masher and added the herbs, salt, pepper, and a few tablespoons of sour cream. I didn't add any cheese (except as a garnish in this bowl, obviously) -- the colour comes from the vegetable stock. A very simple soup, but incredibly delicious.
The corn from the farmers market was also amazing. I always feel a bit 'meh' about corn until I have a fresh cob of it at its peak. Whoa.
Ooh, that soup looks amazing. You have all the ingredients for a corn chowder, so I hope you didn't use up all our potatoes...
posted by yoel at August 16, 2008 11:11 PM