Sweet Tattie and Leek soup

I have just blitzed this soup recipe made today.

sweet potatoe and fresh leek.Saute till soft then add veg stock bring to boil then simmer.

Seaon add fresh parsley and blitz.

Enjoy.

 

Yummmm!!!

 

My sweet potato just didn't grow last year, just found the remains of it dead after the snow.

Wild leeks should be ready to harvest by now though. To get them you have to walk further than your average tourist down the chesil beach, through foot sucking shingle, to the parts of the beach where peat from the long lost peat bogs that have been swallowed up by the English Channel is washed ashore.

If you get that far, then and only then, can you find the wild leeks, growing in clumps as thick as a chicken & having a flavour like no grown leek available today.

Tempted to harvest the seed & cultivate them. But would I start the whole downward spiral of sacrificing taste for size again ?

 

Thank you for the recipe Scotkat and thank you for the wild leek info Ziggy.
I hadn't realized there were wild leeks :tnp:
I see they are small and slightly garlic flavoured :luv: and sometimes called Rams.
Along the banks of the River Ericht here (one of my favourite walks) we have acres of wild garlic. We call them Ramsons. Guess they're all the same clan.

And no, Ziggy, you wouldn't be daft enough to try to breed those wild leeks up into monsters.
Jings, I just want some now. Like right now !

 

Yep, we call the wild garlic down here ramsoms too Alice, its the one with the broad leaves, like lilly of the valley.