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RDJ-- Carrot and Leek Soup, 10-31-09
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RDJ
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Oct 31, 2009 07:01 PST
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Volume 12 Number 255
US Library of Congress ISSN: 1530-3292
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Carrot and Leek Soup
4 large leeks, cleaned and sliced
1 small onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 (1-pound) packages baby carrots
2 (32-ounce) boxes chicken broth
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1 cup half-and-half
Remove and discard green tops from leeks; cut white portions into
slices, and set aside.
Sauté chopped onion and chopped garlic in hot olive oil in a large Dutch
oven over medium heat just until tender. Do not brown.
Stir in leeks, carrots, and next 3 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce
heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, 25 minutes or until vegetables
are tender.
Stir in thyme. Remove from heat, and let cool 10 minutes.
Process carrot mixture, in 2 or 3 batches, in a food processor or with a
hand emulsion blender until smooth.
Return carrot mixture to Dutch oven, and add half-and-half. Heat over
low heat until warm. Yield: Makes 8 servings.
(nutritional info not available)
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AT THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
By Walter Mills
Pennsylvania Time Slip
Early in October, on a cool, bright morning, we drove west on the
interstate to the town of Clarion for the Autumn Leaf Festival and an
afternoon football game featuring Clarion University’s Golden Eagles.
As we drove through the green and gold hills of central Pennsylvania, we
might have been traveling in a time machine, as decades of modern life
dropped away and we found ourselves slipping into a simpler place and
time. When we reached Clarion, we were somewhere around 1954.
Maybe it is only in memory, or in old movies, that a real golden age
exists when life was less stressful and we were not so filled with
anxiety. But Clarion on this day had the feeling of a place stuck in a
time it liked and had no desire to leave. The festival had been going
on for a week, but this was the culmination -- the university's
homecoming parade and then the football game.
Clarion is a familiar place, with a nice main street and a town square
with a canon. You feel like you have been there before, maybe in an
Andy Hardy movie. The town slopes down to the Clarion River a half mile
to the west, and in summer, the river is filled with rubber rafts,
canoes and speedboats. The university is a five minute walk from the
center of town.
Our older daughter, who is a sophomore at Clarion, plays every Saturday
in the fall in the marching band. Her sister, and mother and I were
there to see her play. We parked on a residential street above the town
and walked down to the square where the food vendors had set up with all
the varieties of food that fairs usually have, plus a few I had never
seen before. Large crowds lined the sidewalks for blocks in either
direction, and far off we could hear the first sounds of the marching
band.
Oh, they were fine, with their faces shining and their uniforms, blue
and gold, and their instruments bright and brassy, the pounding of the
drums as the drum line passed and the drum majors strutting and the
flutes trilling. We watched them out of sight, and then the next band
appeared, and then a dozen bands from high schools we had never heard of
from towns too far away and small to be known.
It was quite a parade -- not just one contingent of Shriners on
go-carts, but three -- and homecoming floats, and pretty girls waving
from open convertibles, and politicians jumping out of their moving
vehicles to shake hands in the crowd, stilt walkers and clowns, little
girls throwing batons, everyone tossing candy.
We moved to the stadium and sat near the band. We heard them singing
the fight song - "Watch the Eagles, Golden Eagles, soaring on and on,/
so there will be another victory for mighty Clarion." And they sang the
schmaltzy words without cynicism, and on this afternoon at least, the
Golden Eagles did soar. After the game, while the crowds were streaming
out, the band sang the Alma Mater - "Oh Clarion, dear Clarion, oh
college on the hill," and it seemed like 1954, like a time to be
savored, as the band swayed arm-in-arm to the tune.
(The above column originally appeared in the Centre Daily Times and is
copyright © 2009 by Walter Mills. All rights reserved worldwide. To
contact Walt, address your emails to awmi-@verizon.net ).
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