After enjoying potato leek soup in Ireland, Sun Journal staff writer Bonnie Washuk looked up recipes to recreate the dish at home. Her recipe is a blend of several, using healthier ingredients but still featuring the Irish taste of potatoes and leeks. potatoes, cut in small cubes
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine -- After eating a potato-plentiful lunch that she deemed both "delicious and nutritious," U.S. Sen. Susan Collins was honored Monday afternoon for her work in assuring that schools across the nation are free to serve potatoes to students. During a luncheon at The Crow's Nest restaurant that included both a baked potato bar and potato leek soup, Collins was honored by the Presque Isle-based Maine Potato Board and more than 30 potato growers, shippers and other industry officials. The board organized the luncheon after the Senate voted on Nov. 17 to approve a 2012 agriculture funding bill that included a bipartisan amendment, authored by Collins, that will protect the flexibility of schools to serve potatoes and other vegetables in the national school lunch and breakfa...
At Wood Creek, where the farmers process 400 head of Angus and Hereford cattle each year, Morgan opts to raise his animals on pasture. The word "pasture" is important, he explains, because "you can say something's grass fed and still feed it hay in a barn." Unlike [Doug Flack], who uses pasture and grass exclusively, Morgan gives his cows a "supplement" of grain that makes up about 1 percent of their total feed. "We think it makes them healthier and gives a good balance of nutrition," he says. Flack doesn't spend much time talking about the landscape that surrounds his animals - he's more excited about what's going on inside of them. "Grain feeding changes the microbiology and chemistry of the rumen," he explains. In layperson's terms, this means that the pH of a cow's gut and the bacte...
... raw beef - served atop fried fingerling potatoes and garnished with arugula, crispy capers and truf... such as Pete's beets with kumquat, potato-leek soup "shooters," and crostini topped with roasted-...
Washoku can be translated as "harmony of food." In broad terms, it refers to any food that's traditionally Japanese. In culinary applications, it's a way of thinking about what and how to eat. The philosophy rests on a set of principles in fives that take into account color, taste, method of food preparation, diners' senses and attitude toward the dining and cooking experience. As Japanese food authority Elizabeth Andoh points out, the concepts are easily applied to Western foods, as in the recipe and accompaniments below. Creamy potato-leek soup -- garnished with fresh chives, paired with an open-faced tuna sandwich on toast, and accompanied by a lemon wedge, cherry tomatoes and black olives -- embodies the principle of washoku.
This duality is of course engineered. Here's the hard sell: Come to St. Stephen's Green, a casual/upscale bar/restaurant specializing in unpretentious pub grub/sophisticated fine dining. It's great for a few pints with the boys/brunch with your mother. They've even got a stash of chicken fingers and crayons should you ari ive with offspring in tow. With such large menus, it's a challenge to get every dish right. The frites need salt and a shot of Viagra; they're flaccid beneath lukewarm hanger steak splashed with intense shiitake bordelaise. The potato leek soup is so thick and potatoey, it's like eating a bowl of instant mashed, and the bacony brussels sprouts (though addictively gilded in duck fat) are undercooked. Fried "Green Street" tomatoes are actually red, as mealy and insipid a...
MORE INFO Jamies Kitchen 911 Third Ave., Huntington CALL: 304- 522-0887 E-MAIL: jamieskitchen wv@gmail.com. Reach Ebenezer Medical Outreach at 304-529-0753 or visit www.emo health.org. HUNTINGTON - Sheila Pennisten simmered a pot of potatoes in chicken stock while her new acquaintance Pola Maniskas sauteed a fragrant pot of chopped leeks, celery, onions and carrots. The two women followed the careful instruction of Marisa Clayton, a Huntington High School senior, who led them through the steps to make Leek and Potato Soup.
Most of the decorating and cooking doesn't start until Christmas Eve (even the Christmas tree doesn't go up till then) but you have to start baking in November, [Claudia Moritz] says, as German-style cookies need time to soften. Zimsterne, cinnamon star cookies, are stored in airtight tins for at least a month and will get more chewy as time passes. Gingerbread is also stored over time with apples in metal boxes "to give [the bread] moisture. Roy Yamaguchi of Roy's at Spanish Bay uses a kamado, a traditional Japanese egg-shaped grill, to simulate this effect. Using wood chips to impart the smoky flavor, Yamaguchi cooks his turkey over a very low heat for 4 to 5 hours. "I put water in the bottom of the pan so there's steam incorporated and the moisture keeps the turkey tender and moist"...
Think of chilled soup as a sweet or savory thin smoothie that can be made from almost any fruit or veggie. Some recipes have you cook the ingredients and then puree and chill them. Potato leek soup is made using this method, as is the Russian classic chilled borscht, although it is served chunky, not pureed.
Hot meals for seniors in Greater New Haven are listed for Monday through Friday by the South Central Connecticut Elderly Nutrition Project. Donation: $2; reservations required. Call the meal site. Monday, juice, chicken parmesan with chunky tomato sauce, shells with sauce, mozzarella and parmesan, broccoli, whole-wheat bread, pears. Tuesday, potato leek soup, chef salad with ham, cheese and turkey on greens with tomato, cucumber and black olives, marble bread, peaches.
I've been thinking about leeks lately. Nancy and I have never grown them and rarely eat them, except when visiting friends and occasionally out at restaurants. But a couple of months ago Nancy suggested we should try them. We have had good luck with potatoes in recent years and a potato and leek soup sounds good. Plus leeks would go well in a plate of roasted root vegetables that we have had occasionally over the past few years.
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