Leek, potato and bacon soup

I made this on the Friday of my birthday weekend. I'd had a rotten cold all week and had to tidy my mess of a room before my friends arrived from Bath on Saturday. So that meant no time to go to do some food shopping. In the fridge was three rashers of bacon and I had two leeks and some potatoes in my veg bowl. So I put it all in this soup.

Leek, potato and bacon soup (Serves 4)

2 tbsp butter
2 leeks, sliced
3 maris piper potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
1 pint chicken stock
3 bacon rashers, cubed
1 tbsp chopped parsley

1) Melt the butter in a saucepan and coook the leeks until soft. This will take about ten minutes.
2) Add the potatoes and mix around with the buttery leeks. Next add enough chicken stock to cover the potatoes and cook until the potatoes are cooked (around 15 mins).
3) Meanwhile cut the bacon into cubes and fry until nicely browned. Add to the soup with the chopped parsley.
4) Pour everything into a blender and blitz until smooth.

I'm not a big fan of creamy soups so thsi is great. Leek and potato soup can be quite bland so the addition of bacon adds a bit of flavour. I was still hungry after eating this though. Soup never really does the business for me if I need filling up. I thought about buyings ome chips from around the corner but was a good boy and just went to tidy the room instead.