Sweet Potato Fennel Soup

I had a few Sweet pototoes lying around and felt they needed to marry the fennel.



4 Sweet Potatoes
1 Fennel
3 Cloves Garlic
1 small yellow onion
Rosemary
1 Tbsp Paprik
1 Tbsp Chili Powder
1 Tsp Cinnamon
1 Tsp Nutmeg
1/2 Tsp Carmondon
1 pint Veggie Stalk
dash of ground Clove
Salt and Pepper to taste
a few fennel seeds for sharpness.

Browned fennel, onion and garlic together. Once carmelized, add all spices stir. Add Sweet Potatoes until the edges begin to glaze. Push aside all ingredients and deglaze. I deglazed the pan with Brooklyn Lager, about 1/2 cup. wait until a thick sauce has formed, add stock. Bring to boil and simmier for 40-60 mins, unitl sweet potatoes are tender but not mush. Puree, I used an emersion handheld blender, but whatever you have will do.

creating something with leftovers.

Harvest Fruit Salad with Mutzu and yellow delicious apples. navel orange, persimmons and concord grapes



Biscuits and gravy. carmelized onion, fennel, sweet potato, and garlic seasoned with sage, rosemary, chili powder and black pepper. Chopped turkey, dark and light meats, heavy cream sauce.

Thanksgiving 2009

Theme: Greenwich, CT
Turkey: Free Range 20.5 lb Tom, known as Theodore
Guests: 9

goal: Make the most complex tasting meal to date.
Chefs: Clemmie Cooke and Scott Valentine
Sous Chef: Zakcq Lockrem and Bessie Zhu

supplies


Theodore was brinned for 23 hours


slicing pancetta


clemmie making individual tarts for the pumpkin pies


the beginning of the Moroccan themed veggitarian cornbread stuffing


making Buttermilk custard Ice-Cream with candied ginger.


Before Clemmie's Arrive the morning of, decided to impress by making a delicious eggwhite Nepali-infused fritatta, the parsley hid my finger from the knife. Warwound count, 1.


Why we got up at 6am, to shuck oysters for our lovely oyster chestnut cornbread stuffing, duh.


the stuffing complete but not stuffed.


Our biggest fear was Theodore being to rotund to fit inside my tiny oven, but with 1 inch of clearance, he was snug like a bug.


the completed buttermilk ginger icecream


the fritatta and the abandoned homes of the oysters, we evicted them.


This we were both heady about. Sweet potatoes au grautin with savory milk sauce and fresh raspberries topped with rosemary and gorganzola cheese. THIS WAS INCREDABLE, WE ARE FANS.


the table was beautiful unlike Lisa's face, sorry for the bad pic.


when one doesn't have a masher, use a spare wine bottle. Heather is a genius!
mashed potatoes with roasted garlic and carmelized pearl onions


one of the best things I've had in a while.
Brussel sprouts with pancetta, chestnut marsala sauce. Sweet, bitter, salty


prior to feasting


Clemmie carving Theodore and the fest awaiting homes in bellies.


feasting


We ended the meal with a mildly sweet pumpkin tart topped with buttermilk ginger ice-cream and candied spicy pecans, mint for garnish.