CKC: Turnip, Leek and Potato Soup
I know I am known and loved when I am handed a cook book. For Christmas this past year my sister bought me Joshua McFadden’s Six Seasons. It’s a cover to cover read in terms of garden to kitchen wisdom, it’s recipes are simple and the end results are elegant. He is a foodie from Portland, I expected nothing less.
Our garden has been weird this year. It’s been wetter and darker than normal. Vegetables that succeeded fabulously last year have been needy, sad flops this year. Not our leaks. Those guys are going gangbuster and flaunting their feathery array of leaves like the male peacock they are. Honestly, they could use some humbling. Our potatoes also have done okay, Lucas has been slightly disappointed but I think I’ll actually be able to make it through this haul and not waste 10 lbs like last year. We are swimming in spuds over here. Lastly our turnips have done surprisingly well. They get a solid silver, nothing flashy and clearly not in first like the preening leeks. All this to say, my favorite soup ensemble were present and accounted for. Time to get the pot.
I’m all about the nutritional value of food, partly because it’s cool to know what you are eating. Secondly after years of having a weird, unhealthy relationship with food, it’s helpful (even redeeming) to know at a molecular level the benefits nutrition provides for the body. Science is pretty amazing. Turnips for instance are old AF, they came from the Asian continent near what is now Siberia during the jurassic period, possibly earlier. They are high in Magnesium, Potassium, Vitamin C and Calcium. Potatoes? Sure they are a carb but they again are high in Vitamin C and Potassium along with Vitaman B6. I’m dropping a button below for B6 cause it’s one of my favorites.
Last but not least, the leek. High in flavonoids which means it’s high in antioxidants. It is also high in Vitamin A and C along with manganese. What do all these vitamins make together? Combined this is a heaping bowl full of anti-depressants, anti-aging, menstrual supporting, and anti-anxiety goodness. Eating your vitamins is a thing friends, somehow it all goes down better with flavor.
