Les Poireaux!

Penulis : Unknown on Wednesday, 5 January 2011 | 05:26

Leeks!

Well, today's blog started off as a way to lose a little of the holiday pounds. (sarcastic laugh) I thought, 'I know! I'll blog about leek soup or pressure cooked leek and its precious liquid which fights water retention!' So, I hopped online looking for photographs and ran into all kinds of fabulous recipes to use for cooking leeks.

So, voila, some wonderful recipes from a really super website called La Marmite. You can copy them, and paste them into Google Translate to have them in English with English measurements!

If you want to behave, make a simple leek soup.

Or pressure cook a few leeks in water. You can drink their juice hot, like a tea, and you will pee and pee all day long. Then you serve the cooked leeks cold, drizzle a little olive oil on them, sprinkle a little salt and pepper, grab a crusty bit of bread and, voila, instant healthy lunch.

OR, you could be really bad and make some of these:

The insanely delicious and highly caloric, but who-gives-a-hoot-because-it-tastes-so-good Gratin des poireaux (the best in the world is at the bouchon restaurant La Machonnerie in Vieux Lyon). Sooooo good!