This morning I ordered the recipe book which i shall be using for this blog, hopefully it will arrive early next week it contains 1000 recipes so should keep all that are following going for abit.
Yesterday we had a very hearty soup called Soupe de Bonne Femme which translates as Old Wives Soup. I dished it up to Malcolm, Megan and myself and we were totally stuffed! Very easy to make and tasted great. See my photo below it definately tastes better than it looks or sounds!
This is from a cookbook by Francoise Bernard and needs very little ingredients and inexpensive to make.
Ingredients:
3 Leeks
3 Tablespoons Salted Butter
2-3 medium potatoes
6 cups & 1 Tablespoon of Water
4 Toasted French Bread Slices
Salt and Pepper to taste
1.
Cut off larger green endings of leeks and dispose. Wash tender white part of leeks well and cut into small circles.
2.
Cook leeks for 1 minute with 1 Tablespoon of salted butter.
3.
Add 1 Tablespoon of water and cook for 5 minutes more on low heat.
4.
Peel potatoes and also cut them into circles.
5.
Add them to leeks with 6 cups of water, salt and pepper to taste. Let soup boil very slowly for 45 minutes.
6.
Butter the toast (with salted butter!) and put one piece in the bottom of each soup bowl.
7.
Pour the soup directly on top of the toast and serve immediately.
Make sure you use French bread with plenty of salted butter as this is whats gives such a fantastic flavour. You can also add some bacon just before the leeks are added and you can also add some green salad if serving as a main meal
Yesterday we had a very hearty soup called Soupe de Bonne Femme which translates as Old Wives Soup. I dished it up to Malcolm, Megan and myself and we were totally stuffed! Very easy to make and tasted great. See my photo below it definately tastes better than it looks or sounds!
This is from a cookbook by Francoise Bernard and needs very little ingredients and inexpensive to make.
Ingredients:
3 Leeks
3 Tablespoons Salted Butter
2-3 medium potatoes
6 cups & 1 Tablespoon of Water
4 Toasted French Bread Slices
Salt and Pepper to taste
1.
Cut off larger green endings of leeks and dispose. Wash tender white part of leeks well and cut into small circles.
2.
Cook leeks for 1 minute with 1 Tablespoon of salted butter.
3.
Add 1 Tablespoon of water and cook for 5 minutes more on low heat.
4.
Peel potatoes and also cut them into circles.
5.
Add them to leeks with 6 cups of water, salt and pepper to taste. Let soup boil very slowly for 45 minutes.
6.
Butter the toast (with salted butter!) and put one piece in the bottom of each soup bowl.
7.
Pour the soup directly on top of the toast and serve immediately.
Make sure you use French bread with plenty of salted butter as this is whats gives such a fantastic flavour. You can also add some bacon just before the leeks are added and you can also add some green salad if serving as a main meal
Tomorrows recipe will be Gougere au Jambon If you want to follow and comment the ingredients you will need are:
butter or margerine
plain flour
2 eggs
3oz cheese
salt, pepper and dry mustard
stock cube
2 oz mushrooms
mixed herbs
4oz cooked ham
butter or margerine
plain flour
2 eggs
3oz cheese
salt, pepper and dry mustard
stock cube
2 oz mushrooms
mixed herbs
4oz cooked ham
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