Leek and potato soup question if you have a sec

[lucysmam]

I have 2 small leeks (& when I say small, they're baby leeks) left from my trip to mareket last Tuesday.

What sort of quantities of potatoes would you put in to make this? & how much stock?

If I had bigger leeks I'd probably do 4 or 5 biggish spuds & a litre or so of stock. Would it still turn out ok with these quantities do you think? Or should I reduce them since the leeks are so small?

TIA for any advice

mareket should say market [oops]

i would do something else with them ! two baby leeks won;t go far, if you do make soup, add extra onion and stock cube to make it more flavourful or you just have potato soup with leek garnish !

I would use 3 med potatoes and 3/4 pnt of stock

lulu, trouble is I'm skint til Friday as have been messed around that much for oh's wages that he's signed on until he starts something a week on Monday. So I thought I would try and use up as much as I can rather than do a shop.

What else would you do with them?

thanks jenthehen, I will keep that in mind & see what else I can think of first after lulu's comments

I don't know exactly but I know you always need more leeks than you think. And stock and milk is a better combination than just stock.

oh am sorry to hear that , make the soup as you would , and add some extra onion and the milk is a good idea too.,

I will give it a go, if it doesn't work it doesn't work. I'll still eat it & they can have the other stuff we have in.

Cheers

Have you got any sausages? What about the cheesy leeks with jacket potatoes and sausage on your thread last night (if you have cheese in!) Or without the sausages?

Or if you have any other veg just make it a chunky veg soup?

it should be fine if you follow onion sotck cube advice.

have always found leek and pot to be pretty fail safe.

um, pinkandblue,I have no cheese atm. Am literally trying to use up what I have to make it stretch as far as possible

But we will be trying cheesy leeks when we do do our shopping

any bacon in?

I did a lovely bacon, leek and potato soup the other week.

have just made a big pot of soup now, was inspired!

you could add a tin of chopped tomatos if you want or if you have a parmesan rind in the fridge throw that in too

lucysmam - I would sweat the leeks and potatoes off in butter first to give extra flavour, but adding an onion too will also help.

Oooh I love cookery challenges, give uz another one! I love picking out a few random ingredients from the panrty and trying to work out what the hell I am going to do with them! I am sad, I know..

nope, no bacon either

Trebuchet,I am sure I will be back with more as the week goes on, I am determined to get as far as poss without spending anything!

Extra onion was a good idea, made it up to the quantities I would usually use with just 1 large one & it still tastes lovely! OH says better than previous attempts so thanks for the advice, worked a treat!