Potage du Jour
Oct. 12th, 2008 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikI've been craving... not chicken soup, but something with some of the properties of chicken soup. This is doing it, I think (which is not to say that it will be anything like chicken soup to anyone else). To me something about this says "I am kind and nourishing and will make you well." Fresh bread helps. (Though K is insane - "sour undertones"? Sour that jumps out and hits you in the face more like!)
Soak kidney beans (recently dried kidney beans which I bought at an exorbitant price from one of the Amish families at the market because of their great beauty - a cup or cup and a half of them, I think) for several hours. Simmer them until they are beginning to get tender. Add to leeks, chopped fine, a generous handful of dried porcinni, broken into pieces, celeriac, the root of which should be about the size of a baseball (also chop and add the stems), a few handfuls of wild rice (every time I add wild rice to soup I think of making soup with S.), a daikon radish, chopped, and several ugly but sweet carrots, scrubbed and chopped. Simmer until beans and rice thicken the soup and everything else is nicely cooked. Add a glass of red wine, and a little bit of salt.
I'm putting this under food project even though it's really not quick at all. Oh well.
P.S. Two of the larger daikons are chopped and sitting in rice vinegars with bits of this and that.
Soak kidney beans (recently dried kidney beans which I bought at an exorbitant price from one of the Amish families at the market because of their great beauty - a cup or cup and a half of them, I think) for several hours. Simmer them until they are beginning to get tender. Add to leeks, chopped fine, a generous handful of dried porcinni, broken into pieces, celeriac, the root of which should be about the size of a baseball (also chop and add the stems), a few handfuls of wild rice (every time I add wild rice to soup I think of making soup with S.), a daikon radish, chopped, and several ugly but sweet carrots, scrubbed and chopped. Simmer until beans and rice thicken the soup and everything else is nicely cooked. Add a glass of red wine, and a little bit of salt.
I'm putting this under food project even though it's really not quick at all. Oh well.
P.S. Two of the larger daikons are chopped and sitting in rice vinegars with bits of this and that.
