Radish Top and Kale Soup

Oh...you are still here?  I figured the title post would scare you away.  So, in my CSA basket this week I received radishes.  The group I go through, I get to choose every week what I want.  So this week I decided to get some radishes.  I figured they would be like the ones at the grocery store.  Just little odd round balls.  BOY was I wrong.  These suckers are HUGE and the tops on them are even huger.  It seemed a waste to chuck all the pretty leaves in the trash so I was on a mission to find a recipe to use the leaves.

I found a few recipes.  One was for this soup and another is for a beet, carrot, and radish top salad.   I think I will try that one tomorrow.

Anyway.  I fiddled with the recipe enough to say that I made it up!  Always fun when that happens.  I will not be posting a picture of the finished soup first, because well, green creamy soup does not look that pretty.  But my radishes do!!

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons butter, I used salted
• 1 large onion, diced
• 3 medium potatoes, sliced
• 4 cups raw radish greens
• 1 cup raw kale
• 4 cups vegetable stock
• 1/3 cup half and half
• 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, depending on taste.
• pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.  I used a 2 1/2 quart size.  It was rather hard to stir all the greens in.  Larger than that would be ideal.
2. Add onions to the butter and cook until tender.
3. Add the sliced potatoes, radish tops, and kale.  Stir to coat all with the butter.  You don't have to worry about chopping all the leaves, because the soup will be blended at the end.
4. Add the stock and rosemary.
5. Heat to boiling, then reduce and simmer for 30 minutes.  
6. Check and make sure the potatoes are tender.  If they are, let the soup cool for a few minutes.
7. At this point you have a choice.  You can either pour this into a blender and blend OR use a hand held immersion blender.  That is what I used.  
8. Once all blended, add the cream and stir.  Heat through and add pepper to taste.

All done!  I'll add a picture now, just so you can see what it looks like.  Looks much nicer in person!

Enjoy!