Continuing our tradition of having homemade soup on Sundays, I wanted to make something comforting and filling today. Living in Idaho means I always have a large bag of delicious local potatoes in our pantry, so cream of potato was the perfect solution. As usual, I added a bunch of ingredients to a pot, seasoned them, and counted on the fact that it's pretty much impossible to ruin a soup. My experiment turned out perfectly, and we each had a huge bowl of soup for dinner. This is definitely a wonderful comfort soup for a gray, snowy day.
Creamy Potato Soup Recipe
5 tbsp butter
1 onion
1 stalk celery
1 carrot
4 tbsp flour
1 box chicken broth
2 cups milk
5 red potatoes
thyme
worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
1/4 cup cream cheese
cheddar cheese and bacon bits (for topping soup)
Dice the onion, celery, and carrot. Chop the potatoes into 1/2 inch pieces. Melt the butter in a large pot, then stir in the onion, celery, and carrot, cooking until they begin to soften. Add the flour and stir constantly for two minutes. Pour the chicken broth and milk into the pot. Then add the potatoes, a sprinkle of thyme, salt and pepper, and a few drops of worcestershire sauce. Bring the soup to a light boil, let cook uncovered for 30 minutes, or until the potatoes are soft. Stir in the cream cheese; continue to stir until it's completely melted and mixed in with the soup. Serve with grated cheddar cheese and bacon bits on top.
I'm assuming the "5 red tomatoes" should be potatoes? ;)
ReplyDeleteLooks/sounds yummy! I'll have to try it some time.
Thanks Heather! I got that fixed! haha :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness that looks delicious! Wow- how is it that I have gone so long without a good potato soup. must change that!
ReplyDeleteThis is making me so hungry right now! I love how your soup tradition is turning into one of my own - every time you post a soup recipe I go, "hm that looks really good!" and end up making it a few days later lol
ReplyDeleteoh, that looks so good. trying it asap. xx
ReplyDeleteYummy. The very first time my husband ever made us potato soup, he cooked the potatoes too long and it ended up being more like mashed potato soup. It was too yummy to complain, though.
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ReplyDeletelooks so yummy, i think i'll try it!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh. That looks amazing. Need to try this!
ReplyDeleteThat looks gorgeous...thanks for sharing!! :-)
ReplyDeleteWe had Potato soup last night too. It is one of our favorite. Thanks for sharing your recipe. I'll have to try it.
ReplyDeleteI used to ascribe to the view that it was impossible to ruin a soup too. That was until the day I managed to blitz half a lemon that had got thrown in with some chicken stock into a batch of vegetable soup. There was no flavour in there to counteract the fierce citrus tones. In the end there was no saving it...
ReplyDeletethis looks delicious! where does the flour come in?
ReplyDeleteDefinitely gonna make this soon, it looks too good not to!
ReplyDeleteThis is making my mouth water. Looks sooo good!
ReplyDeleteI am hooked on soups with potato LOL
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