Unless you’re really into cross country skiing or whatever the hell else winter lovers do outside, there isn’t much to enjoy about the cold season coming our way.
That’s where comfort food comes in — when it’s time to warm the bones and please the senses when the outside offers white landscapes and stinging windchill.
It doesn’t get anymore comforting in the comfort food world than a bot of Potato Soup, and we have a recipe here that should keep your ribs toasty on the coldest midwinter day.
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Potato Soup
Ingredients:
- 6 slices diced bacon
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 3 carrots, diced
- 3 stalks of celery, diced
- 6 small russet potatoes, peeled and diced
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 3 Tbsp flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup 1/2 and 1/2
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1 cup grated cheese
Preparation: Fry diced bacon in soup kettle until crisp. Remove from pan, drain and set aside.
Pour off fat put do not clean kettle. Add onions, carrots and celery. Stir and cook for 2 minutes. Add potatoes. Cook 5 minutes, then add salt and pepper.
Pour in broth, and cook gently for 10 minutes. Potatoes should be tender.
Whisk milk and flour and pour into soup. Cook 5 minutes. Remove 1/2 to 2/3 of soup and put into a food processor or blender and blend until smooth. Pour back into soup pot and stir. Let it heat back up, taste for seasoning. Pour in cream and stir.
Serve topped with cheese and bacon.
