Our good friend Ellen Hanson is an uber-talented interior designer based in New York. She was responsible for the interior design at the Hotel Indigo here in Athens and we had the pleasure of meeting her when she and our friend Sandi Turner decided to host a celebratory project wrap up party with us at The FourCoursemen House. They brought the design team and others who were involved in the project over for a dinner and one of the courses we served was this Radish Soup w/ Candied Lime. Ellen loved it so much that she asked us if she could feature it in her “Creatives Cook” profile on Camille Maurice’s blog.
The full story and the recipe are available there and I encourage you to pop by and read it. You can view it at: http://camillemaurice.com/?p=980. We are also posting the recipe here for you. So fire up that stove top, grab your cutting board and knives and get to work!
For more information on Ellen Hanson and her amazing work please go to http://www.ellenhansondesigns.com/.
Until next time!
T4C
The FourCoursemen’s Radish Soup with Candied Lime
1 medium sweet onion, diced
1 medium fennel bulb, diced
1 1lb. baking potato, peeled and diced
1 lg. clove garlic, minced
25 red radishes, trimmed and quartered
1 1/2 T. Pernod
2 qts. vegetable stock
small bunch of thyme
1 c. heavy cream
salt and pepper to taste
Sweat the onions and fennel with 3 T. olive oil in a 4qt. soup pot for about 10 minutes
Add the garlic, stir and cook for 2 more minutes
Add the pernod, stir and cook for 1 minute
Add the vegetable stock, radishes, potatoes, thyme,
Simmer for 1 hour on low
Extract the bundle of thyme and puree the soup in a blender, until very smooth
Whisk in the heavy cream
Candied Lime
2 limes
simple syrup (1cup water 1cup sugar – boiled and cooled)
Peel zest away from two limes using a vegetable peeler.
Boil strips of zest in simple syrup for twenty five minutes
Then strain and transfer to a sheet tray lined with parchment paper
Bake for just a few minutes to harden them
Crack and sprinkle on top of your soup.
Tags: Candied Lime, Radish Soup