Comments on: Potato and Leek Soup

By: Ginger

Ginger — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:25:05 +0000

I make this all the time. I don’t remember where I learned it. Nor do I put fatty dairy products in it. Just lots of leeks, potatoes, salt, pepper, and water. Pureed or chunky, we eat it every couple weeks all winter. Never knew it was french until Julie to Julia.

By: Candace

Candace — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:08:11 +0000

This soup sounds delicious. Potato soup is one of my favorites. I look forward to trying such and easy recipe and something new!

Mine too. I do hope you’ll like it

By: My Melange

My Melange — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:39:12 +0000

It is really that easy! And I totally concur on Leeks and Italians. Maybe they prefer the stronger cousin, garlic? I love me some garlic
xo

By: KC

KC — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:18:09 +0000

I did not know it was that easy to make this! I don’t really like soups, but I love potatoes and leeks, so I make an exception for this one.
BTW, I think one of the greatest flaws in Italian cooking is that the leek is underused.

By: My Melange

My Melange — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:45:30 +0000

I love that idea!! Fantastic

By: Nadine

Nadine — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:18:17 +0000

Marsi– I completely agree with you. I listened to the audiobook of My LIfe in France on my commute and nearly drove straight to the airport to board a plane to Paris. It was inspiring– so much so that I too bought Child’s cookbooks and her TV shows on DVD. Once I even set up the portable DVD player in my kitchen so I could cook with her– and though I didn’t follow her recipe (esp. with regard to butter) because I am inherently rebellious and contrary, I enjoyed the company. Cheers to you both, Nadine

By: My Melange

My Melange — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:27:53 +0000

Marsi, I have watched her videos and read her book. They were both fantastic!! She was always quite a pip! I have heard about her kitchen in the Smithsonian. Someday, I hope to see it. Someday.

By: Marsi

Marsi — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:31:48 +0000

I like leek and potato soup exactly the way Julia Child made it in one of her videos about making breads and soups, which I checked out of the library probably 11 or 12 years ago. I sat on my bed, with the VCR clicker in one hand and a legal pad and pen in the other, and transcribed about a dozen recipes by ear!
That was my first real exposure to Julia’s cooking — and by “real,” I mean other than just knowing who she was and seeing the funny SNL skits about her in the late ’70s.
If you haven’t read “My Life in France,” which came out a few years ago and was based on her nephew’s culling of her many letters home from France during the post-war era (when she learned to cook), YOU MUST. It is so incredibly descriptive that you feel like you’re alongside her in the kitchens of France. And if you’re ever in D.C., YOU MUST go to the Smithsonian and see her kitchen tools set up in a reproduction of her kitchen. The last two times I’ve been to D.C., that entire wing of the museum was undergoing massive renovation, but I think it may’ve reopened by now.
Anyway, she is one of my heroes! Glad to see her being discussed here.