This recipe is from the 2007 Food & Wine Festival recipe book “Tastefully Inspired.” While the recipe from the Ireland kiosk is technically called “Chilled Potato Leek Soup,” I’m not crazy about chilled soups, and I’m dangerously close to the very end of “soup season” here in Central Florida. This is my last hurrah to enjoy it before the humidity starts creeping up on the near-90 degree days we’re already having.
The recipe is simple, and the amount of time tending to the dish while it’s on the stove is relatively light. I’ll mention a few tips and tweaks along the way (there really weren’t many at all!). Below are all the ingredients you need to make the soup. Chopped chives are used for garnish, which I skipped, and instead topped with a bit of crumbled bacon which I had on hand. Otherwise, this is an easy and filling vegetarian soup that, despite the use of heavy cream, feels light.
I love Spanakopita. I enjoy it during Epcot’s International Food & Wine Festival at the Greece kiosk, and I recently visited a place near Downtown Orlando, Mediterranean Blue, that serves up a HUGE and delicious piece of the savory pie. It’s a dish I’ve never attempted at home, so while flipping through cookbooks of Food & Wine Festivals past (this recipe is from 2009), Greece’s recipe for Spanakopita definitely stood out.
Here’s what the Spanakopita looked like at the 2012 Festival:
I went out and bought the ingredients to make the dish, and gathered what I had on hand. I’ll have some notes at the bottom of the post with things I tweaked beforehand and would change on my next batch. Yes, I will be making it again!
I’m not going to go through each and every cooking step, but merely point out some before and afters for reference.
I was very much looking forward to Sundowner Celebration. I was hoping it would be as delicious as Taste of Africa was in 2010. What was once contained to Harambe Village in Africa was expanded to be even larger, and for me, filled with more promise. Overall, the event to me was a perfect example of bigger doesn’t always equal better. Sure, there was stuff going on all over Africa and through Asia. Attractions were open to be enjoyed. But both the selection and quality of food offered was sorely disappointing. Why is this post titled Cape Malay Chicken Curry? Read on, my friends.