this is a blog about the food in my life. what I eat, what I wanna eat, what I make, what I bake, what I wanna make and bake, ideas and recipes. it's also my thoughts on food or stories behind the meals. The lyric references are from my lifelong love of classic rock and funk and from working a hunnerd years in music retail.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Killing Me Softly
I'm thankful I made this delicious creamy two-potato soup before I read about potatoes being one of the most heavily pesticide ridden vegetables out there. I remember reading you should go sweet potatoes if you can't afford organic but they make the regular brands so cheap and big and available that I just grabbed 'em.
Instead of leeks this time I used 3 large sweet onions, celery, carrot and garlic saute for the base before adding the potatoes and chicken stock.
I used New Red and Russet potatoes, skins on. That used to be a good thing too. Although the more you read now it seems the skins are not a source of fiber at all but filled with toxic compounds. But if you peel the potatoes you lose a lot of the vitamin C when you boil. You can't freakin' win these days with food, you just have to pick the lesser of the evils it seems to me. Girls on a budget. We need a break out here I tell you what.
When the potatoes were tender I took half the soup and blended it adding a little bit of non-fat, non-organic milk (ahem) then added it back to the pot, a little nutmeg, salt and white pepper.
As a topper I browned up some turkey sausage and cut them in tiny chunks and garnished with some dried jalapenos and lots of fresh cracked black pepper.
A smooth, luscious, and now apparently lethal brew.
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