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[kaberett]

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[kaberett]

My mother - via her siblings - calls it "slug sinews", because of the very particular consistency and also the colour. I know you're supposed to end up with something delicate and white and refined and probably sieved, but in this as in so much else I hew fairly close to my maternal line: food waste is an abomination, there's no reason not to eat leek greens, and there's few things as nice as lumps of potato boiled in milk - so I never blend it as much as I might.

I season it with nutmeg and with bay leaf, of course, and with my parev chicken-flavoured stock, because what the other side of the family has given me - despite their nonobservance - is a great appreciation for the respects in which kashrut means I can get something close enough in flavour to the chicken-noodle-soup of my childhood without actually compromising on the vegetarianism.

Normally I eat it hot with crusty bread and aggressive chunks of cheddar. In this weather, I'm decanting it from the cauldron in the refrigerator into a watertight container, sticking it in the fridge at work, then drinking it direct from the bucket still cold. It turns out to be a really easy way to get me to eat a meal, and was inspired by my discovery in Paris that you can just buy litre glass bottles of gazpacho soup that you then pour into a bowl and eat.

Learning to make gazpacho is, as it happens, next on my list.

[mair_in_grenderich]

thankyou!

now I want to know: does your leek-and-potato have milk in?

[kaberett]

yep! at least when I have any in the house...

-- to expand on which: I grew up always having milk in the house (my mum has it in tea + coffee and also on cereal in the mornings) and then I lived in shared student accommodation where similarly there was just... always milk, and I used it rarely enough that trading fresh-baked bread for milk worked for the other people in the house; but now I live somewhere where the other person also uses milk very rarely, and I'm always surprised when I realise we don't have any in, and I always have to work really hard to use it all up before it goes off if I do buy it...

[mair_in_grenderich]

it's probably not helpful for your use case, but learning that you can freeze milk in ice cube trays improved my life considerably.

(however, I also love soda-bread made with really gone-off milk ... )

and we will have try it (not gone-off) in soup! thanks :)