Extra Roots with added Leeks
...and recipes for the Welsh Cawl and Purrusalda from the Basque Country.
Leeks, the poor man’s onion, are everywhere right now, welcomed in all the best places. Must be the weather. Allium porrum, a member of the lily family not found in the wild, has been in cultivation since - well - the earliest times (Neolithic middens, anyone?). Follow the flow with a couple of winter wet-weather recipes to warm the cockles from the damper corners of Europe: the green pastures of the Basque Country and the valleys of Wales.
