Vegetarian soup

On Tuesday I made vegetable soup.

• 1 beet
• 1 leek
• 1 potato
• tomato purée
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1tsp salt, pinch of pepper, curry
• 2tbsp olive oil
• water
  

I peeled the potato and the beet and cut them in 1inch cubes. Chopped and washed the leek. Put everything in a pot with water, and let boil for a while (until potato and beet were soft and done). Then I kept the liquid through a sieve, and put the solids in a dish. I put the potato pieces, the beet pieces, and a bit of milk in the blender, and blended them to a thick crème. I added this in the liquid left in the pot and set it on low heat. Then I added the tomato purée (about half a box, ready made). I didn't have fresh tomatoes, but 2-3 tomatoes in the blender would probably be better, I'll try it next time. Added 1tsp of salt, a pinch of curry and a pinch of pepper, and stirred until it boiled, then I added 2tbsp of olive oil and let it boil for a couple of minutes more. It tasted good, I think.

I might try to serve it to other people next time for feedback. I think a nice presentation will be to put the soup in cups, add a spoon of crème fraîche in the middle of each cup, and a bit of fresh parsley on top of that. I poured the soup left into an empty wide-neck orange juice bottle, capped it an put it in the fridge. Took it to work the next day, it was a nice lunch, and very nice for the chilly weather, too. I'll have to find something to do with the boiled leek that is left, I didn't want to blend it with the beet and potato. I think I might use it as a filling to make a pita (as soon as I get a roller to make phylo).

A funny detail: I poured the soup in the bottle while it was still hot, and capped it. That caused the metal-cap security seal went inwards as the soup cooled down, and the next day it went "pop" as I uncapped it, as if it was bought. Heh.