St. Patrick's soup

irish potatoes

The great Irish potato famine that began in 1845 wiped out a fifth of the small country’s population - but it couldn’t displace the potato, long since recovered, as a mainstay of the Irish diet.
An Irish Potato Soup is an easy dish to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day next week. Fred Parmenter, a chef instructor at Baltimore International College, updates the traditional blend of potatoes and vegetables by frying leeks and roasting fingerling potatoes to top the soup. You can prepare both garnishes while your soup simmers, so this rich treat, thickened with cream, can be ready to serve in less than an hour.
4 pounds fingerling potatoes plus 4 fingerling potatoes for garnish (divided use)
salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (divided use)
1/2 quart chicken stock
1/2 cup heavy cream
chopped parsley for garnish
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Season 4 fingerling potatoes with salt and pepper and rub with olive oil. Roast until tender, about 20 minutes. Cut each potato into slices on the bias and set aside for garnish.
Prepare and finely chop onion, celery and the rest of the potatoes. Add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil to a saucepan and sweat onions and celery for about 5 minutes. Add potatoes, chicken stock and bay leaf and simmer 20 minutes. Add cream and simmer another 20 minutes.

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12 Responses to “St. Patrick's soup”

  1. Amanda says on March 17th, 2008 at 1:21 am :

    Btw, large, modern CISC processors also assume you’re using a compiler (pretty much rely on it, really).Also, pipelining/timing issues aren’t really dependent on the processor implementation. Figuring out the various scenarios is made more complicated with the addition of more, and more complicated, instructions.Lastly, writing more instructions doesn’t necessarily make it more difficult, or un-fun. My favorite assembly/architecture is probably still the ARM7 (I haven’t done any ARM assembly since around that time), which is RISC; even more fun than 68K assembly IMO.

  2. Windsor says on March 17th, 2008 at 2:12 am :

    Sure, but it’s not as much fun to drink green beer while listening to Flogging Molly in honor of the Ice Age.

  3. Keitha says on March 17th, 2008 at 3:02 am :

    You can, but modern processors are not designed for it. m68k is simple to program for. Modern RISC processors assume that you are using a high level compiler, which can deal with complex things. Every try to deal with delay slots in assembly? I have, and it isn’t fun (even for the 30 line programs I did - I’m just glad they were handwritten for a class, and never touched a computer as I’m sure there are bugs that the TA didn’t catch).In a RISC processor your instructions do less work, so you need more. For a compiler this isn’t a problem, but when doing assembly a well designed CISC instruciton set like m68k is more fun.I haven’t dealt with x86 assembly, but I’m told it is the worst of them all. I tend to trust the people saying that.Edit: fixed a RISC… I’m sure there are more, I’ll fix them as I find them.

  4. Monna says on March 17th, 2008 at 3:53 am :

    fucking ridiculous

  5. Lily says on March 17th, 2008 at 4:44 am :

    Why should we give a damn about hedge funds going under. They are just a way for the very rich to gamble. If they go under who but the very wealthy are hurt? The more very wealthy cease to be wealthy the fewer we will have to feed to the guillotine.

  6. Milo says on March 17th, 2008 at 5:34 am :

    True to a point, but those very complex processors are coming down in price (and power useage) to the point where more and more embedded systems are just using them, and programming in a higher level language. People like fancy color displays even when they only need a single led. Besides, you can buy off the shelf hardware instead of having to design your own. (This may or may not be useful for your project, but it is important for some projects)

  7. Glenn says on March 17th, 2008 at 6:25 am :

    Because I would imagine that the text favored the side of St. Patrick and the Christians, I’m gonna take a wild guess and say the Crom Cruich probably didn’t actually kill their firstborn children.Also, what an interesting picture.

  8. Shelton says on March 17th, 2008 at 7:15 am :

    no sh!t Sherlock…

  9. Barrett says on March 17th, 2008 at 8:06 am :

    You can still program in assembly, you know.

  10. Phemie says on March 17th, 2008 at 8:56 am :

    I agree, but you’re completely missing the point of my original comment.That said, there are a **huge** number of 8- and 16-bit processors sold, new ones come out all the time, and they’re not going away any time soon.Whatever; my comment still stands: he misses programming in assembler, and you still can [program in assembler].

  11. Praise says on March 17th, 2008 at 9:47 am :

    And your programs will look the same as they did back then.