One of the things on my list is to try one new (and fancy) recipe every week. Mostly because mom has gotten some great new cookbooks and I want to try them out. She got "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," which is so cool and inspiring especially after watching "Julie and Julia." And then, there the "Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook," in which a woman took all the food that is mentioned in Harry Potter and found a recipe for it. (Yes, this includes pumpkin pasties, but I did not see one for butter beer.)
So today, I made my first recipe: Cock-a-leekie Soup. It may sound like an odd choice out of everything that could be found in a Harry Potter cookbook, but I've been dying to try it since I saw an episode of Jeeves and Wooster about it.
Check out a clip from the episode here.
Jeeves and Wooster is definitely my favorite way to see Hugh Laurie.
The soup I made was absolutely fantastic. I actually like leeks quite a bit thanks to growing up on Leek and Potato soup from one of mom's hippie cookbooks. This soup is full of them and I just threw in some rice left over from Chinese take-out. The soup only has about 6 ingredients and it was easy to throw together and just let it cook while I worked on some of my other projects. Hooray for multi-tasking!
Here's a picture of my soup.
It's probably not the best picture, but the soup is fabulous!
