#celery soup

[thestarsarelaughing]

okay, soup 3! This one was, uh, slightly improvised. My oven broke 😭 (it's fixed now) so I couldn't cook the meal I had planned to. So I got out the recipe for celery soup I'd been meaning to get to and did what I could.

Recipe was from The Complete Farmhouse Kitchen Cookbook (Farmhouse Kitchen having been a cookery show that ran on Yorkshire Television 1971-1990). I didn't have the full amount of milk & cream it called for, so I padded it a little with yoghurt I had leftover from doing the spicy potato soup. I also didn't have a bouquet garni, or the means to make one in the time available, so just used dried herbs of the sugested type and hoped for the best.

Oh, also I was hungry and sad about the oven and I accidentally skipped the step about adding flour. So all things considered I should be grateful it was edible!

Notes: It turned out alright! Nothing mind-blowing, but it was perfectly fine, considering the mis-steps.

Definitely more of a starter/appetiser soup than a full meal, given that it is essentially just boiled celery. I got hungry again pretty fast. However! The next day my oven-failure-induced lack of meal prep caused me to risk mixing the leftovers of this with some leftover rice and heating that through to approximate a meal, and that was amazing. Turned into a creamy celery risotto-style thing and the herbs really came through.

I was also interested to get a recipe that explicitly uses the celery leaves, as I almost never eat those.

[shoku-and-awe]

濃厚であっさりなセロリスープ // No-Cream Celery Soup Yesterday, my extremely handsome and considerate husband turned 32! Since celery is his favorite vegetable, I made this soup (plus gorgonzola & kabocha cream pasta and pepper steak). I was worried that the dinner would be too heavy and rich, but after blending the soup, it was so flavorful and creamy that I ended up leaving the heavy cream out! So it’s a savory, almost light soup, just with the texture of cream-of-something soup.

Based on this epicurious recipe

INGREDIENTS ~1 head (8ish ribs?) of celery 1 small onion 3 tiny potatoes (or 1 large) ~1.5 - 2 tbsp butter Salt & pepper 3 cubes consomme bullion 1 bay leaf ~1 tbsp fresh dill (chopped) ~1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (=half a small lemon) Celery leaves to garnish

1. Chop onion, potato, and celery. Saute onion in some butter until translucent. Add celery, potato, and remaining butter. Stir until coated, salting and cracking pepper liberally.

2. Cover with water, add bullion and bay leaf, and bring to a boil. Cook until tender.

3. Remove from heat. When cool, add dill and lemon juice, and blend until smooth. Chop celery leaves and garnish to serve.

NOTES & SUGGESTIONS

The celery leaves add a lot of flavor. Definitely do it!

Celery is tough to blend! Chop it small. My immersion blender (hand/stick blender/what have you) was not up to the task; after several minutes, it looked like a very chunky sauerkraut. So I returned it to the heat for a while, then blended again, and put it through a strainer, and it came out suuuper creamy. 

(I also tried to blend the strained bits again, adding lots of liquid, and it worked somewhat but was not worth the time or effort. I might use them to make stuffing this weekend, though.)

The recipe called for heavy cream; I was planning to substitute Greek yogurt and might still try it next time. In that case, I’d probably reduce the butter and add more dill. 

This might also go nicely with some chopped bacon? Just at the end; cooking it all together would overwhelm the celery and dill.

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