French Country Soup

Ingredients

• 1 medium yellow onion
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (See note below.)
• 2 bay leaves
• Salt
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 medium leek or enough shallots to make ½ cup, sliced
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 3 large red or white (thin skinned, but not Yukon Gold) potatoes (1 ½ pounds)
• 4 cups of aromatic homemade chicken or beef broth (See note below.)
• 1 smoked pork chop, or 1 cup chopped Black Forest ham or smoked turkey (optional, but nice)
• 1 stalk of celery and a handful of celery leaves (or whatever you have)
• 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
• 1 tablespoon fresh marjoram leaves
• 1 good-sized bunch of green Swiss chard or kale
• A generous handful of parsley leaves
• Black pepper
• For the Optional Cheese Toasts or Tomato-Rubbed Rustic Bread * * *
• Bread, sliced on the angle if it’s a baguette or batard
• Stone ground mustard (optional)
• Grated cheese (Parmigianno-Reggiano, Gruyere, Manchego, whatever you like) * OR *
• 1 really juicy tomato + a touch of coarse sea salt

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