Menu:
Leek and potato soup
Homemade bread (courtesy of your favorite breadmaker)
Sharp cheddar cheese, thinly sliced
How to Prepare Soup:
1) Put chicken stock; ground pepper; chopped onions, leeks, and potatoes into crockpot. Also, throw in a can of creamed corn since you never used it for the recipe you bought it for and hey, who doesn't want a can of creamed corn in their soup?
2) Simmer all day.
3) Right before serving, puree soup in blender. Do this in three batches as soup will not fit into blender all at the same time (obviously).
First batch: Fill blender 3/4 of the way full. Hold lid on blender, but let go once the surge of hot liquid hits the top when blender is turned on. Try not to swear in front of the kids when soup splashes onto floor, your clothes, your hair, and other yet-to-be found places. Dump into large bowl.
Second batch: Fill blender again. Remembering the blunder from the first batch, place a folded washcloth on top of the lid. Press down firmly. Marvel at your wisdom and intelligence. Then stand baffled at the loud grinding sound coming from your machine. After repeated attempts to turn off said machine, feel your blood pressure rise about 10 points when you see that the center plastic part of the lid that removes so you can put ice cubes into the blender easily has fallen into the blender. Raise eyebrows in disbelief as you remove the melted piece from the soup. Dump soup down garbage disposal after removing other large piece of plastic from soup. Rinse blender.
Third batch: Fill blender with remaining soup. Cover lid with washcloth so nothing escapes the hole that now exists. Be grateful that you made plenty of soup.
4) Spoon out some soup for the kids. Blow on it to cool it down. Then take a sip. Question the use of creamed corn in any future recipe.
5) Feel like a failure of a mother and wife when your husband pulls a piece of plastic out of his mouth and says, "Hey, at least it wasn't glass."
6) Be glad you made that bread! You at least have something to eat for dinner.
7) Drown your sorrows in a diet Pepsi (see previous blog).
