Chilled lettuce and potato soup.

Beautiful red and green lettuces,

 no matter how I try to space out the plantings

there's always a glut at certain times of the year.

I picked two large green ones

 added an onion, chives and a handful of scrubbed new potatoes.

In a large soup pot I sweated off the diced onion and potato,

  the washed and shredded lettuce and chopped chives,

 then cooked it all together until the lettuce wilted.

Then added 2 litres of hot chicken stock before

cooking for another 20 minutes, on a low heat, until the potato was soft.

After seasoning to taste, the ingredients were allowed to cool

 before blending thoroughly.

 I also added 4 large serving spoonsful of creme fraiche at this stage
and then chilled the soup in the fridge.

As it was such a hot day

I decided it would be nice to have lunch in the garden

 and so I set a small table for two, by the wisteria.

I picked wild flowers
 from the grassy banks along the side of the lane.
Comfrey, cow parsley and purple clover and placed them in a large glass pitcher.
Two tall glasses of iced peach tea, a baguette
 eh voilà! déjeuner en plein air.