This recipe is for those snowy days, when the last thing you want to do is venture out to the grocery store. Odds are, you’ll probably already have the ingredients to whip this up in your pantry. With minimal effort you get a big batch of soup that’s hearty, healthy, and just the right thing to keep you cozy.
This hearty, flavorful soup really hits the spot on the coldest of winter days, and it makes a lot so you can eat it all week!
A couple days after the fall equinox and we’ve had our first chilly day! Soup season is upon us! Potato leek soup is so easy to make, and yields a lot with only a few ingredients (all of which can be purchased at the farm store this season, yay!) It also freezes well, so you can cozy up with a bowl of soup any time the mood strikes.
Read MorePersonally, I do a lot of cooking at home and I don’t like waste, which means I often have random vegetables and the like knocking around. Instead of throwing them out I use them to make stock so that I never have to buy it and I always have it when I need it. Let’s be honest, buying a whole container of stock when you only need a cup is annoying, having small frozen portions on hand is life changing.
Read MoreThis soup features: ground pork which was traditionally butchered and processed late autumn with the ham reaching a salted cure by the solstice, beans, having been harvested mid-September and stored, and kale, a crop over wintered with a covering of straw or on more wealthy farms glass hot boxes. In these modern times we rarely see a seasonality to any of this.
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