Another winner from
Sunday Soup. I served it with fresh bread and a green bean, cherry tomato and bacon salad.
1/4 cup olive oil
4 cups fresh corn kernels (from 6 to 7 large ears of corn)
2 cups chopped leeks, white and light green parts only (about 3 medium)
1 Tablespoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt, plus more if needed
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
4 to 4 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup half-and-half
1/4 cup sour cream
6 ounces fresh lump crapmeat, picked over
3 Tablespoons finely julienned fresh basil
1. Heat the olive oil until hot in a large, deep-sided pot (with a lid) set over medium heat. Add the corn and leeks, and cook, stirring constantly, until slightly softened, for about 6 minutes. Add the garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and red pepper flakes and cook, stirring, for 1 minute more.
2. Add 4 cups of the stock and bring mixture to a simmer; reduce heat and cover. Cook at a gentle simmer until the corn and leeks are very tender, for 30 minutes.
3. Puree the soup in batches in a food processor, blender or food mill, and return soup to the pot. The texture should be slightly chunky, not completely smooth.
4. Whisk the half-and-half into the soup, then whisk in the sour cream. Taste soup and season with salt, as needed. If the soup is too thick, thin it with up to 1/2 cup additional stock.
5. To serve, ladle the soup into 4 bowls. Divide the crabmeat evenly and mound in the center of each serving. Garnish each portion with basil.
My ThoughtsI would use less broth so that the soup is thicker. I would also puree the soup until it was smooth rather than chunky--that's just my personal preference.
Welcome to my living room. This is one room that we rarely use except when we entertain at Christmas time. This is the first room that we did when we moved in and was a bit of a stretch as far as colors for us. We've come a long way in the last 5 years! The walls and the built-ins are a gold color. The backs of the shelves are painted a burnt orange to match the orange in the rug that we got from Pottery Barn.
This is the view if you are sitting on the couch. The fireplace has an ugly marble surrounding it and you can see that I still have some Christmas decorations up! It's high time the gold trees get put away! You will also notice that I have two door ways into my living room. The one on the left is from the main hall and the one on the right leads into my dining room. 
There are two closets in each doorway...plenty of storage. It's amazing how we've managed to fill them all with junk!
This is one side of the room opposite the built ins. The only one who plays the piano is my husband and it's been years since he's touched it. I would love to have a baby grand player piano in this room.
This table is next to the piano. We bought it for another spot in our house and it was too big. Now it holds some of my scrapbooks and some of the games we enjoy playing. You can see that I have a ton of pictures. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE photos. It's a real problem!
This is the view from one of the doorways. The entire back of the room is glass. I would like to replace the sliders with french doors and build a slate patio outside the room. Any suggestions on window treatments? We've been trying to decide what to do with these windows and can't come up with anything that we love.
Check out all the other living rooms here.
I have an old farmhouse table with a bench and a built-in bench. We can seat a bunch of people around the table when necessary!
This is the fireplace in the room. It used to be UGLY white brick. My husband had the idea to use the stone and it totally transformed the fireplace. We use it all the time in the winter.
This is a painting that my friend, 
