I am rushing a bit today but I wanted to share this delicious soup recipe with you. The base of this soup is basically the potage parmentier recipe that I posted on a few weeks ago that I adapted from Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertolle. That recipe (leek and potato soup in case your French is as good as mine) is a delicious meal in itself but I have given it a bit of pep by adding some fresh spinach and watercress. 
- 500g of peeled and cubed potatoes
- 250g of very finely chopped leek
- 1½ pints of vegetable stock
- 100g fresh spinach and watercress
- Salt and pepper
- 50g butter
- 2 tablespoons of double cream (optional)
- Cook the potato and leek in the vegetable stock until the vegetables are tender. Using the back of a fork roughly mash the potato.
- In a small pan bring a small amount of water to the boil (probably less than an inch of water) and cook the spinach and watercress for a minute. With a hand held blender, roughly blend the spinach, watercress and the water into a course soup.
- Add the spinach and watercress to the the leek and potato soup and stir in well.
- Season the soup with salt and pepper and stir in the butter and cream.
lovely addition of cress and spinach
Thankyou Tandy. Have a good day.
I love watercress in soup! And your soup is such a lovely vivid green in the photo–looks wonderful!
I know and it really was that green! I have just made some celery soup – I am soup crazy at the moment.
This looks so gorgeous, and I love the simplicity of your recipes. An egg can be a wonderful envelope for all kinds of fillings, a base for a tasty homemade mayonnaise, the richness in a lovely lemon souffle. The shells can even be used atop a pot of simmering soup to absorb the scummy part. I’ve used it all different ways.
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What a great tip. The other day I spent ages skimming the top off a soup that was a bit scummy. The next time I will know what to do. Thank you for the award. I really appreciate that.
What a wonderful soup for summer! Do you fancy entering it into our Soup of the Month competition?
Here’s the link you need…http://bit.ly/SOMrecipe – good luck!
Thank you, I will.