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Date: 05 January 2006 23:57:13
I bought the leeks about 2 weeks ago and have ignored them ever since. Tonight, for some reason I decided to make the soup. It was incredibly well thought out.
I started while my food was in the oven - 19 minutes before it was due to finish in fact (I looked at the timer and went ahead anyway)
I melted the butter and then cooked the bacon, I chopped the leeks, realised the bacon was browned but I still hadn't done the potato.
I peeled and diced the potato. I added the leeks and potatoes, I stirred until they were glistening. I read the next stage. Ah. I boiled the kettle and dug out the vegetable stock cubes. Found the bay leaves. Found the jug. Melted the stock cubes once the kettle was boiled. Stopped the pinger telling me my meal was ready. Poured in the stock and added the bay leaf(s), set it to simmer, partially covering it.
I removed my food from the oven, dished it up and started eating it. Periodically I would stand up and go to the stove and check the soup, stir it, that kind of thing. After I had finished my meal the pinger went to tell me the soup had simmered for long enough.
I fished out the first bay leaf, I looked for the second, and looked, and looked, and finally found it and removed it. I found my blender (a small, hand held affair). I thought about just putting the thing in the saucepan, I thought about the mess it would make, I thought some more. I decided to be cautious. I found the jug. I poured the soup into the jug. I found the cutter, worked out how it fitted and then poured the soup into the small container designed to hold items to be blended.
I put the blender on and nothing seemed to happen, I tried again. Still nothing. Ah, cutter still on side rather than in small container. Put cutter in soup. Failed to hold hand held bit down hard enough, splattered soup over top, trousers and work surface. Stopped and put apron on. Held it down more firmly. Once blended I poured it back into the saucepan and started the process over again - literally. Failed to hold hand held bit down hard enough, splattered soup over work surface, burnt fingers. Held it down more firmly. Once blended I poured it back into the saucepan and started the process over again. Failed to hold hand held bit down hard enough, splattered soup over work surface, burnt fingers again. Held it down more firmly. Once blended I poured it back into the saucepan and started the process over again. Held it down firmly enough (I learn eventually). Once blended I poured it back into the saucepan and decided my early worries about thickness were unjustified, especially when the last glob of pureed mess landed on my thumb and really burned, poured in the milk and heated it through.
Measured how much soup I should need for a portion by putting water into my soup bowl and then pouring it into the various plastic containers - in one or two portions. Washed jug, put it in soup so I could pour into the appropriate plastic, realised that jug was too big, found smaller jug and repeated the process. This worked better. Left soup to cool in containers and put in fridge.
No wonder I don't make a habit of this soup making lark.