It's 2am, you are hungry, what do you do?

Most people call for a Chinese, or eat crisps.  Not after Lucy Tilney's fabulous 50th Birthday party.  She's been mentioned in this blog before and is definitely a fan of good food.  So I was flattered that she asked me in the early hours of this morning to knock up a leek and potato soup to fill up the half cut crowd who had made it back to her house.

Luckily I was encouraged by my French sou chef who kept piling in the garlic and told me to stop sweating the leeks and just shove everything in the saucepan with some water and leave it to simmer away.  Which is what I did - great advice.

We used approx 3 leeks (memory is hazy), four largish spuds (I think one or two were new potatoes), four cloves of garlic, an onion, butter, salt, pepper, chicken stock cube and water to cover all the ingredients.

All in the saucepan over medium heat till spuds are done.  We blitzed it in a magic mix then ate, delicious bowls of the most amazing soup ever - all done in just over 25 mins.  Epic.

Invitation to my private view

Please come, if you can't then show runs from 12th May to 10th June at Jane Newbery Gallery, 33 Dulwich Village

Lovely blog piece by The Printspace

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Only 20 days until my private view....

Wild Garlic Pesto

Fantastic walk in the woods in Picardy, followed by wild garlic pesto harvested from the forest floor and a bottle of cotes du rhone (rather  better than the  2€ version I served!).  Cress and Charlie Hoblyn supplied the recipe though quantities are unknown:  lots of lovely wild garlic leaves, olive oil, pine nuts, lemon juice and parmesan whizzed up in the magimix.  Bit of salt and pepper, then eat.  Very very delicious. More so because we just picked the leaves.

My First solo show 12.5 to 10.6

During the Dulwich Festival from May 12th to June 10th I am exhibiting at Jane Newbery Gallery, 33 Dulwich Village. It is the first exhibition I have done on my own.  I will be showing photography of trees and the sea. Prices ranging from £70 to £500, prints will be in limited editions with some images shot on film and some digitally.  The private view is on Thursday May 10th from 6pm to 8pm, if you'd like to come email me at info@patrickmillsphotography.com

Weymouth Beach - March 2012

Super Dog