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"OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)"
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"OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
Apologies for the lateness, folks. Now that the cold, nasty weather has finally approached Philly, I feel like it'd be a grand idea to share one of my favorite soup recipes. Crock pot is recommended (unless you are more adept at sensing cook-times than I am, which shouldn't be too hard), and a blender of some sort is required. I make the soup vegan - you can choose to substitute with actual milk or chicken stock, if you like. You will need: 3-4 medium sized potatoes (I like the gold-fleshed variety, but all work fine) - peeled, in about 1.5" dices
2 leeks
1 medium sized onion - finely chopped
1/2 cup soy/rice milk
1 1/2, and about 1/4 cups vegetable stock
water
1 T vegetable oil
1 tsp thyme
1 1/2 tsp dill (or 3 fresh sprigs)
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp black pepper frozen corn or asparagus tips, if desired 1. You will only need the white parts of the leeks. Hack off the green bits and bulb-end, and discard. Slice the leeks into "coins" about 1/4" thick - that is, fairly skinny. 2. Heat up the vegetable oil in a saute pan over medium heat. Dump the leek slices in the pan, and sautee until soft, about 5-6 minutes. Put the cooked leeks in the crock pot. 3. Add the 1/4 of stock into the pan and deglaze over medium heat, being sure to scrape up any brown leek-bits that have stuck to the bottom of the pan. When liquid is mostly cooked down, add whatever's left in the pan to the crock pot. 4. Add the finely chopped onion to the crock pot, and on top of that, add the diced, peeled potatoes. 5. Pour in the soy/rice/cow/goat/aardvark milk, as well as the remaining 1 1/2 cups of stock. Add water until all the food is covered. 6. Add thyme, dill, pepper, and salt. Stir, put the lid on the crock pot, and cook - 3-4 hours on high, or 6-9 on low. 7. After everything is all nice and cooked and softened - you'll need to blend it all together. This is very easy if you have an immersion blender, and less easy if you have a conventional blender. I do, and I've gotten used to it. Just make sure you have a big pot to pour the blended soup into once it's nice and liquidy. At any rate, blend in SMALL batches. This is vitally important. You do NOT want your kitchen coated in very, very hot soup. Once you've got silky, potatoey, leeky goodness, you can enjoy. If you are so inclined, add some frozen corn niblets or asparagus tips to the hot blended soup. The heat of the soup should thaw them out pretty well, and they add some texture and vegetable goodness! Enjoy with crusty bread - makes a wonderful lunch, and is basically the best thing ever if it is rotten outside. 
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12-02-09, 10:05 AM (EST)
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15. "Hmmmm" |
They should take the material they use to make Shamwow and use it to make an "adult undergarment". A cross between Depends and Shamwow... De-Pow? Sham-Pends?
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12-02-09, 03:05 AM (EST)
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11. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
This looks really good, Slicey, but in a few days I am heading out of the country for three weeks. I am going just a little crazy with getting everything ready plus all the Christmas stuff, so I'll wait to mnake it after I get back.It looks similar to several soups I make with a potato-cream base, one with corn, one with bacon and cheese, and another with cauliflower, sour cream, and caraway seeds. I have just started to explore cooking with leeks, so it'll be fun to try and I'll let you know when I do. Thanks! 
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12-05-09, 12:36 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
It's in the crock and cooking! Pics and review to follow...
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12-06-09, 09:25 AM (EST)
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24. "Steak and potatoes " |
and leeks.This turned out very good. One of my favorite potato soups, and this I wasn't expecting. I did wind up switching from black pepper to white pepper as Rob and I both like the flavor of the white with potatoes. 
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and the meal - I added a little smoked mozzarela shavings but they promptly sunk. It was a good addition though.
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12-07-09, 10:16 AM (EST)
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28. "RE: Steak and potatoes " |
I like how your mug is smiling at the steak. 
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12-07-09, 05:47 PM (EST)
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31. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
It's -11 F (-24 C) here, so I am sending DH out to get the fixin's and we'll make the soup either tonight or tomorrow. lCAn't wait. YUMMMM!
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12-07-09, 06:34 PM (EST)
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32. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
It's one of the best potato soups I have EVER had!
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12-08-09, 07:13 PM (EST)
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33. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
Cooking this now.Was running late and stuck in traffic but I took a couple of shortcuts. I don't have a crock pot so I sauted the onions and leeks together, threw in the potatoes, the water, stock, thyme and dill. It's on a low boil, so once the potatoes are done I'll whiz the beejesus out of it. Have got some nice, heavy crunchy rolls to go with it. DH not a soup person but he's looking forward to this because it's part of OTCC. I had planned on making this last night until I discovered I used up all my potatoes on sheppards pie on Sunday. So there I was, with leeks and everything, but not a potato to be had. 
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12-09-09, 12:30 PM (EST)
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35. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
This is cooking now as I am at work. I had a major craving after seeing the pictures and posts. I am in the middle of a major kitchen redo, so I didn't have a lot of room to work with, and I threw it together this morning in between visits to my son's school for swine flu vaccination and helping with a class project. My onions and potatoes were not perfectly chopped/cut, but it didn't seem to matter since I'm going to destroy them with the blender.I didn't have any dill. And I had to use chicken broth instead of chicken/veggie stock. I will also add cheese to mine. Pics later once it's done. 
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12-09-09, 06:30 PM (EST)
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37. "I know it's not the vegan way . . ." |
But then again I'm not a vegan.I wonder if I used too many potatoes. I used 5 because I didn't think they were big. It's kind of thick/chewy. I added some Tastefully Simple Bacon Bacon, sour cream and cheese. So it's kind of like loaded Baked Potato Soup. But it hit the spot. Thanks Slicey. I have pics, but I have to upload, resize, etc.
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12-09-09, 07:08 PM (EST)
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39. "The Kitchen smells delish!" |
I came home to the lovely smell of the soup simmering in the crock pot. Its especially nice because today is winter weather of the worst kind: cold, rainy, slushy on the brink of freezing out. So I'm sitting here eating it right now because DH is at a work related Christmas thing and it's yummy!Except that I think I put in too much pepper (for my tastes anyways). Is white pepper hotter than black? Because Tummy used white pepper in hers, I experimented and did half white and half black. I also used chicken stock and skim milk. Then I added some fat free half and half at the end after it was blended to make it creamier. I baptized my new hand blender with this recipe too. I had bought myself an early Christmas present because I have been making a lot of soup this winter and it saves a lot of time. One funny thing from the directions: it said "Do not use outdoors." WTH? Go figure that one out! I will definitely make this one again (and try it with vegetable stock next time - I forgot to buy some) and adjust the amount of pepper! Thanks Slicey. I loved the way the recipe reads like you are talking. I printed it out as is - you are immortalized in my cookbook now!
 
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12-10-09, 11:07 AM (EST)
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43. "RE: The Kitchen smells delish!" |
White pepper is technically hotter.
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12-11-09, 04:22 PM (EST)
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49. "RE: The Kitchen smells delish!" |
Technically I think my DH channels Alton. The hair is eerily similar.
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12-10-09, 10:54 AM (EST)
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42. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
I'm not a dedicated cook, but potato and onion soups are my favorite, and this one sounds great. Thick soups are a winter time comfort food for me.
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12-11-09, 04:13 PM (EST)
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47. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
Just checking in.I haven't had an opportunity to try this one yet, but I LOVE potato leek soup and can't wait to give this a try. The description and the pictures make me so hungry. I want to make it and have it with brown bread and a Guinness.
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12-12-09, 01:57 PM (EST)
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50. "since the mercury says it is " |
- frickin' 32 C (-24 F) outside, I think this qualifies for the rotten weather so I will be making the soup today. Can't wait!
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12-15-09, 11:34 AM (EST)
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51. "RE: OT Cooking Club - Potato Leek Soup (vegan!)" |
Rob's going to my brother's today to help him out with some construction. So I am making this again. I'm going to grill some chicken and top it with Boo's sauce and have this as a side. I've also got a baby loaf of bread to throw in the oven. Yum.
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12-30-09, 07:32 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 12-30-09 AT 07:58 PM (EST)I finally had an opportunity to give this one a go today. I had lots of leftover potatoes from Christmas Eve and I happened to pick up some leeks at the store last time I was there. Both kids went for a nap around noon so I had the kitchen to myself, so I figured, now or never! Look, mise-en-place! With photos! I never have my act together enough to do mise-en-place, much less take pictures of it. 
My changes/substitutions:
- I used olive oil instead of vegetable oil. I don't really like vegetable oil. Olive oil worked fine. - I didn't have fresh herbes, and I didn't have thyme, but I did have a spice blend called Parisian Bonnes Herbes which has dill and other stuff in it which seemed appropriate. - I used white pepper instead of black. - I used 6 potatoes. Three russet and three yukon gold. I like mixing up the potato population. - For the stock I used two tablespoons of this concentrated vegetable soup base mixed into two cups of hot water. My dad gave me an assortment of different concentrated soup bases for Christmas and I was delighted to find that vegetable was among them. - I used a combo of heavy cream and 2% milk, and I did not put it into the crockpot. I think I've read that milk/cream doesn't do well in a crock pot so I saved it and added it when I blended it all up. - I threw in about a tablespoon of prepared horseradish. I just think it goes well with potatoes. It was not really detectable in the finished product except I do think it added just a hint of bite to it, which I really like. 
I sauteed the leeks and onions together, like several other folks did. I did them low and slow so it was more of a sweat than a sautee so they didn't really turn brown. I then removed them to the crock and deglazed the pan. At this point I decided to add the potatoes to the pan with the stock and par-boil them for a little while. I was afraid that I hadn't left myself enough time to really cook them well in the crock pot so I decided to give them a jump-start. I boiled them for about 10 minutes in the stock - they didn't really get soft but they weren't super crunchy anymore either. 
After the par-boil I threw everything into the crock pot and let it go for 4 hours on high. When it was done I used the immersion blender to zhuuzh it all up into smooth, creamy deliciousness. (I zhuuzhed, added the cream/milk, and zhuuzhed again.) 
I poured it into a taster mug and had a bite. Delicious. Then, I decked it out a bit with some crumbled bacon (leftover from yesterday's spinach salad with bacon dressing) some grated extra sharp cheddar cheese, a dallop of sour cream, and a sprinkle of chives. 
Edited to add: I just realized that the above photo looks like Yosemite Sam's face in the mug. *snort* Really yummy. Really, really yummy. My daughter asked for a taste. She then asked for her own bowl. Then, a second bowl. So, this is toddler approved! I also gave my 9-month old a taste since he kept trying to grab the spoon from my hand. He liked it, too. Thanks, Slicey! This one may have to make an appearance as a starter for a holiday meal!
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The other pictures are good too.