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Do you ever wish you'd never started something?
I am spending the afternoon googling leeks. I bought some on Wednesday, in a fit of Doing Proper Cooking. We are having roast chicken, with all the trimmings, and I thought it might be nice to have leeks. Which it probably would be, if I had any fucking idea at all about how to cook the fucking things. Boiling them seems wrong, somehow. Braising, although it sounds lovely, is out as I don't know how to do it. I am rubbish at sauces.
And if that wasn't bad enough, I am blogging about leeks.
I might go back to bed.
Gah.
UPDATE: I made sauce! Cheese sauce! It rocked! Next time in this exciting series - help me decide what to have in my sandwich!
Gah.
I am spending the afternoon googling leeks. I bought some on Wednesday, in a fit of Doing Proper Cooking. We are having roast chicken, with all the trimmings, and I thought it might be nice to have leeks. Which it probably would be, if I had any fucking idea at all about how to cook the fucking things. Boiling them seems wrong, somehow. Braising, although it sounds lovely, is out as I don't know how to do it. I am rubbish at sauces.
And if that wasn't bad enough, I am blogging about leeks.
I might go back to bed.
Gah.
UPDATE: I made sauce! Cheese sauce! It rocked! Next time in this exciting series - help me decide what to have in my sandwich!
Gah.
posted by surly girl at 3:46 pm
16 Comments:
Better to be googling leeks than to have leaking googlies.
Chop them up, stick a hundredweight of butter in the bottom of a saucepan then fry for ages until they're all mushy and lovely.
Fuck me - I just wrote that. How sad am I...?!?
They're nice finely sliced and lightly steamed. They're very good in a stir fry so I should imagine it's okay to fry them.
I can't cook though, so ignore that.
Well clearly there's just NOT enough information out there about leeks.
Too late now to give helpful advice with your leek problem, but I find allowing them to liquify in a plastic bag in the bottom of the cupboard and then throwing them away and getting a takeaway works for me.
Nuke them in the microwave for 4 minutes on 68% power. Then pan fry them in butter and serve wrapped in grilled bacon.
Aah, bless those years of reading Viz Top Tips.
Yay Surly! - here I am in the wrong time zone to have been any use at all, but I would have said "cheese sauce". My inlaws are Welsh and that's how they do it/them/leeks...Yummy!
I would have said the same as JonnyB - but with less butter.
Sautéed.
You do have to strip the outer leaves off a bit and wash down the little layers or you'll be munching on gritty bits of Farmer Giles's field all through the meal.
Leek and Gruyere quiche is nice.
(and you've already done it so I'm a bit horse-bolted *sigh*)
You want help with what to put in your sandwich? You can get a free book by Hellmann's (of mayonnaise fame) from Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Your-Sandwich-Made-Hellmanns/dp/1904573576
Unsurprisingly, all of the recipes involve H's mayo, but that can be avoided with a bit of imagination. Nevertheless, it's quite a good book, with lots of good ideas.
It's a genuine offer - I got one, and no follow up junk mail or spam!
http://www.sandwichproject.co.uk/
"browse the archive of 2672 sandwiches"
Maybe you should be spinning them instead... :)
www.leekspin.com
sweat in butter, serve in broth.
words to live by.
howling with laughter at your post and the comments!
Marmite.
Nuff said.
It's WAY too late now.
But we have leeks every Sunday.
We chop them up, put them in a roasting dish, cover them in some honey and roast till they start to go brown.
Excellent
i know what you mean about cooking in fits. my cooking fits involve lots of pointless and uncontrollable thrashing around, rolling eyes, tourettes type outbursts, occasional damage to property and foaming at the mouth (although that usually comes at the end when i'm eating the bloody stuff)
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