Slipped under the wire

Presenting (drum roll) chilled spinach soup!

Truth told, it was pretty mediocre. The only thing I liked about it was the color. The photo doesn't do it justice. It was glowingly green, which I like in a soup. Anything that green has to be good for you, right? Needless to say, no one else around here would touch it.

So, the details. Slowly cooked one onion. Diced up a potato and cooked it in a quart of vegetable broth, well seasoned with salt and white pepper. Took it off the heat and threw in a pound or so of baby spinach. Whizzed the soup in a blender and put half of it through a chinois, the rest back in the pan. Chilled. Served with some lemon zest on the top.

It probably would have tasted much better with cream, butter and an egg yolk -- but everything tastes better with cream, butter and egg yolks, right?