Leafy Cooking: Food and Drink

When something is richly fulfilling, in Dutch people say: it's food and drink (eten en drinken). To me, home-made minestrone is that. I stress home-made, because yesterday at an Italian restaurant, I had what I suspect was minestrone with frozen vegetables. Test an Italian restaurant? Ask for their minestrone. But passons.

I've posted it before. I may have said before that I've seen friends make it in 15 minutes, but Harry from Harry's Bar makes that 15 (the onions) + 15 (veggies) + 15 minutes (simmering liquid). If there's time, do it Harry's way. I haven't given away his trick yet: add a knob of butter before serving it hot. And that gives the soup its velvety sheen. I think I will make this if my aim is to seduce. Because isn't that just seduction: trying to fulfill something that seems rich.

See Harry's Cookbook, but I post my quite luxurious and not all wintery veggies of the day:
1 onion
4 thin strands of green celery
2 leeks
1 parsley root
2 carrots
3 round bulbous zucchini
2 tomatoes
2 potatoes
2 handfuls of baby spinach
tomato concentrate
2 l of water

(with my own twist, some exotic spices: fenugreek, ginger, turmeric, and curry powder, along with thyme and pepper and bay leaf, to replace some of the usual salt)

Serves an army of at least four.

Source: http://leafy-cooking.blogspot.com/2012/02/food-and-drink.html

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