As Puck himself puts it, "The simple soup my mother makes from the vegetables she grows in her own garden next to the house where I grew up in St. Viet, Carinthia, Austria, is very little ...

All you have to do is peel a potato and drop it into the pot. Allow the potato to simmer in the soup for about 15-20 minutes. As the potato cooks, it will absorb some of the excess salt from the soup.

Whisk in a little hot soup to liquefy it, then whisk into the pot. Break up the spinach into the soup and stir well. Stir in the lemon juice and white pepper, and season to taste with salt and a ...