This potato soup is perfect for cold winter nights, and we are having a lot of those at present. As much as I would rather be warm, the rain is welcome.
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I was the first of my friends to get a smart phone and use it for work. It was a great tool for taking orders but I never really made good use of the other features. When BlackBerry launched in South Africa I decided to switch brands, and made better use of the phone. I started receiving my emails and eventually I had an App that read them to me. Having my emails and text messages read out aloud while driving at the same time seemed like a great idea. I would find myself pulling off to the side of the road to reply! However, over time I stopped the App, and even took my emails off my phone. I decided I really did not need to be available 24 hours a day. I do however have smart notifications sent to my fitness tracker.
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If I get a message while driving a quick glance at my wrist lets me know who is contacting me. Using the Bluetooth device on my car I can call the person, if I know it is something that needs to be dealt with urgently. My new car however has Apple CarPlay which has proven to be amazing. On the Tuesday after I got my car I plugged my phone in. I was a block away from work when I got a WhatsApp message, and Siri read it out to me! And I could reply via the Bluetooth system in my car. This meant that the message which needed my immediate attention could be dealt with straight away, without me having to pull off to the side of the road.
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Potato Soup
Ingredients
- 30 g butter
- 1 small onion, peeled and diced
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 75 g spring onions, sliced
- 5 mls dried dill
- 30 g flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
- 10 medium potatoes, largely diced
- 1.5 l vegetable stock
- 2 bay leaves
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to season
- 60 mls whipping cream, plus extra for drizzling
- capers for garnish
Method
- Place the butter into a heavy bottomed sauce pan and melt over a medium temperature
- Sauté the onion until soft and then add the garlic, spring onions, dill and parsley
- Cook for 15 minutes then add the potatoes, stock and bay leaves
- Season generously and stir to combine
- Bring to the boil then reduce the temperature and leave to simmer for 30 minutes
- Remove from the heat, discard the bay leaves and blend until smooth using a stick blender
- Stir in the cream, return to the heat and warm through
- Adjust the seasoning before serving with a little bit of cream drizzled on top and a few capers in each bowl
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Technology is amazing, isn’t it? Hard to imagine life without a smart phone now!
Potato soup is my favourite – I love capers too! I will definitely garnish my soup with some next time 🙂
I love the salty pops of flavour capers add to a dish 🙂
What a great soup. I really love capers, so I love them sprinkled on the soup. Probably better than caviar. Technology is so wonderful. I’ve been in New York City, and have been run into by so many people texting while walking. I mean, they run into you anyway, but it seems extra rude when they refuse to watch where they’re going!
I am with you on that – phones should not be used while walking around 🙂
My emails come through to my work phone and I check them compulsively all the time. I don’t often make calls from my car. A lovely potato soup recipe, Tandy.
I know you like to listen to books in your car 🙂
I get some notifications on my watch now too–can help me not stop what I’m doing to check my phone.
I just had a “Reuben Soup” which was basically a potato soup with the addition of some cheese, cabbage and an almost non-existent small amount of corned beef. It was delicious and started me thinking about potato soup so I love that you just posted this!
I have never heard of that soup – so New York in my mind 🙂