I like potato leek soup. This shouldn't be much of a shock: I am, after all, a nightshade-consuming human, and all the things in potato leek soup are good things.

My dearly beloved @MargretheRavn made me potato leek soup using her family recipe, and I became OBSESSED. I had to own this soup. I had to be able to replicate this soup on a whim.

Fortunately, the recipe was not a big secret, and I was able to secure it with little trouble. As is my wont, the first time I made the soup, I was determined to follow the recipe exactly as written. That part is important. Exactly. As. Written.

The first step was to brown bacon in the bottom of the pot, to make a nice rich base for your veggies. I do not care for bacon. I do not know how to cook bacon. I am not normally trusted in the vicinity of bacon.

But dammit, I was going to Follow The Recipe, so I got a bunch of bacon--frankly too much bacon--and chopped it up and dumped it in my pot, where it proceeded to create a sort of...small pond of bubbling, seething bacon grease.

@seananmcguire Sing to us the Ballad of The Potato Leek Soup.

@seananmcguire This thread makes me feel so much better about those 3 microwaves I accidentally lit on fire back in 06.

@seananmcguire This reminds me of the time I made my mom's hot German potato salad recipe, but instead of adding the flour to the onions and bacon, I added the sugar. I accidentally made onion-bacon brittle.

@seananmcguire Thank you for this! I use leeks a lot and never knew THEY COULD FLY!!!

@seananmcguire Dear gods of the holiday season, please let this involve a lizard crawling out of someone's leg! I have been good all year!

@seananmcguire I laughed so hard my DH had to check on me. This reminds me of a similar incident in my kitchen with two greese covered ferrets, a southern fried nightmare meal, a kitchen on fire, burnt okra, and one very excited rottweiler.

@seananmcguire This made my entire night. I just read this thread aloud to my roomate and we are on the floor laughing.

@seananmcguire Sadly, this is almost exactly what me cooking is like... I think I’ve had 5 flaming incidents now... the last one I even let burn a little while I opened a window to let out the smoke. I’m way to used to it 😔

@seananmcguire STORYTIME YAY

@seananmcguire I love you!! This is on par with @UrsulaV stories which generally result in hysterical laughter from me and my husband, so well done!!

@seananmcguire You should know that @Kythrain so enjoyed this thread that he had to do a dramatic reading of it for me. My condolences to your kitchen and pride. I personally have the Ginger Beer Incident of 2017 to live down...

@seananmcguire I don’t know why I follow anyone else on twitter❤️

@seananmcguire Ha ha, I love the story. Could have been me... (I'm good with baking but cooking is some alchemy-y thing to me) And by the way: You're writing well, you really really should become a professional writer... 😉😉😉

@seananmcguire My first thought: 'how the hell can someone mess up potato leek soup?' But then it was just howling laughter, choking & trying hard to breath. Dear Gods I needed that - thank you!!

@seananmcguire I feel MUCH better about my Homemade Doughnut story now... AKA, why @MandaTheGinger doesn't ask me to cook things without recipes anymore.

@seananmcguire *pulls up chair*

@seananmcguire Bacon in pots scares me, and I make bacon regularly 😂😂😂😂

@seananmcguire @CaoihminAndrews Been there done that. Alas, I haven’t been allowed back in the kitchen since the Great (actually rather small, if you ask me) Fire of ‘07.

@seananmcguire you are the greatest and we love you!!!

@seananmcguire Oh, I love you. This is brilliant, thanks for sharing. So awesome 😁

@seananmcguire This made my day!

@seananmcguire Hee hee!