Friday, April 04, 2025

The Festival - or Folly - of Fancy Mashed Potatoes...

 Or mere tales of squishy potato bake?

Hot Lactose-free Vichyssoise, even?

(Apologies - i fought the technology but the technology won in the below order of photos - imagine them in reverse.)

For visual description in the right order- 

  • a very wet end to a very wet week;
  • wet-weather organ-warming soul-massaging goodness-in-a-bowl;
  • Super-Crunchy Garlic-Flavoured SourDough Croutons from the air fryer: 
  • a piece I call "still-life with wine receptacle, fresh ginger and a grey tin of McKenzies coarse-ground black-pepper"; and 
  • a white bowl with an artsy-fartsy arrangement of croutons, black pepper and greenish yellow potato-and-leek soup.

a white bowl with an artsy-fartsy arrangement of croutons, black pepper and greenish yellow potato-and-leek soup


still-life with wine receptacle, fresh ginger and a grey tin of McKenzies coarse-ground black-pepper

super-crunchy garlic-flavoured sourdough croutons from the air fryer

wet-weather organ-warming soul-massaging goodness-in-a-bowl

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Not deconstructed-reconstructed extrusions in a tin that tastes like someone lied to make money, but good-to-honest from scratch.

Well, I didn't grow the potatoes or get the recipe from a bookseller. But as close to the shore of nature as a modern day working woman intending to solve hunger sails.

I went to the supermarket. A leek I did buy. Also some chips to go with my Friday night glass of wine.

I found a guide to follow for the something whipped up on a very wet end to a very wet week. *

With super-crunchy garlic-flavoured sourdough croutons from the air fryer.

It hit the spot on this child free evening.

Practical wet-weather organ-warming soul-massaging goodness-in-a-bowl. What is not to love?

So - tell me yours.

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* If you haven't discovered RecipeTinEats yet, to paraphrase an Aussie icon, do yourself a favour!

No paid content here - just very yummy.

Also I made this one lactose-free by omitting the cream altogether- already rich enough.  Whilst part of me remembers the CONCEPT of cream was curious-ly appealing, too much of my muscle memory is tied up in post warmed lactose hell.

Don't even MENTION melted cheese!

** How did I go? Placeholder for Words for Wednesday by way of River.

1.bookseller 2. solve 3. shore 4. lied 5. buy  

and: 

1. folly 2. tales 3. love 4. curious 5. practical

*** I should point out that the ginger was just for effect.  (I can be a bit pretentious that way) 

**** oh, and the licorice? My kryptonite.

13 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

You did really, really well. And hooray for home-made food.

Kelly said...

Hmm.... thinking about sourdough croutons in the air fryer. I might have to give that a go, or something similar.

jeanie said...

Thank you. I am not great at rule following and until I did a deep dive after writing the above hadn't been to yours.

jeanie said...

You have to Kelly - game changing! If we have any bread not being eaten quickly enough, we will cube and freeze - its just a spray of oil and any seasoning and into the air fryer for deliciousness!

River said...

You did very well! I have heard of Recipe Tin Eats, but recipes I tried didn't go as well as I hoped, bread recipes mostly, so I'm giving up on those. I haven't made potato/leek soup in years, I prefer sweet potato/pumpkin.

jeanie said...

I have had hit and miss with some of her stuff - her coleslaw dressing is a go to (although we don't add sugar because we are sweet enough). I did make a wonderful pumpkin with half a pumpkin given to me by Dad a couple of weeks ago.

sa lluna said...

Sembla deliciós, tot i no haver-ho provat mai.
Aferradetes, Jeanie.

jeanie said...

lets see if Google can translate back! it is such a simple yet delicious soup - fry leeks in butter, add potatoes and stock and then season and blend. but if course, the main ingredient is hunger.
a veure si Google pot traduir de nou! És una sopa tan senzilla però deliciosa: fregiu els porros amb mantega, afegiu-hi patates i brou i, a continuació, amaniu i barregeu-los. però si és clar, l'ingredient principal és la fam.

jeanie said...

oh - and GARLIC too - must have garlic.
Ah, i l'all també: deu tenir all!

Debby said...

We love cream of potato soup here as well. I have not made it with leeks (our wild leeks are much smaller, so using more is a must). We love a nice bowl of soup in the cold weather. A big favorite is French Onion soup, whipped up in the blink of an eye, a toasted round on top and popped in the over to melt a gooey layer of cheese (sorry about the muscle memory thing).
Lentils and sausage soup, perhaps?

Jeanie said...

This does sound delicious. Thanks for the site recommendation, too!

jeanie said...

ha ha - sausage has a similar effect. I don't mind taco soup, though, and I used to have an Anton Mosimann red lentil and lemon soup that was amazing - leant the book and never got it back, but the memory lives on!

jeanie said...

You are most welcome