Week 7: Vitelotte Potato Soup
or "Purple People Eater Soup" and stickers!
As the temperatures refuse to rise, it's the perfect time to cozy up with a hot, hearty soup. On this week's soupy adventure, I'm sharing one of my all-time favorites - roasted vitelotte potato soup.
For those not familiar, vitelotte potatoes have a unique colorful skin ranging from blue, to purple, to pink. Their creamy interior is the perfect vehicle for soaking up rich, roasted flavors. You'll find me in the kitchen tossing diced vitelottes with olive oil, rosemary, and crushed garlic before roasting them to crisp perfection.
As they roast in the oven, these potatoes take on the flavor of hazelnuts and chestnuts. Once cooled slightly, the potatoes, onions and garlic get added to a pot of vegetable stock along with beets. After a good simmer, I whip out my trusty immersion blender to puree the soup until silky smooth.
The result is a soup almost too beautiful to eat...almost. Its deep purple color speckled with little treasures of goat cheese is reminiscent of a Montana midnight sky.
In other news… with some help from my dear friend Elizabeth, we now have stickers! You can buy them on the order form.
