Saturday, July 30, 2011

Potato Soup

Want to really impress someone?  How about homemade soup?  It isn’t as hard as you think and there are alternate methods that you can use to make it even easier.  It also stores well in the freezer.

Ingredients:
·         3 cups        Diced raw potatoes
·         ½ cup        Finely chopped celery
·         ½ cup        Finely chopped onion
·         3 cups        Water
·         2 cups        Milk
·         2 cubes      Chicken bullion
·         3 Tbl          Butter
·         1 cup         Sour cream
·         2 tsp          Salt
·         1/8 tsp       Pepper

Directions:
1.            Dice the potatoes and put in a medium or large sized container
2.            Chop the celery very small and add to the potatoes
3.            Chop the onion into small bits and add to the potatoes (There is a real easy way to do this by first cutting parallel to the board then vertical, then slicing.  You can probably find it on the internet or somewhere in my blog)
4.            Pour the water into a sauce pan that has a cover
5.            Add the potato/celery/onion mixture to the water, cover, and cook until tender
6.            Take the vegetables out of the water with a slotted spoon and put them in that container you used in step #1.  Don’t drain the water as you still need it and it contains much of the nutrients.  Don’t worry if you miss some as it just adds to the texture
7.            You can push the potato/celery/onion mixture through a sieve, dicer, or run it all through a blender.  I don’t like the blender idea though as you lose the vegetable pieces.  I guess you could crush them with the back of a fork though if you don’t have a sieve or dicer.  Put the end results back into the container
8.            Add the milk, bullion cubes and butter to the water
9.            Add the sour cream and flower and stir until smooth
10.        Pour everything into the saucepan containing the water
11.        Cook over medium heat and stir constantly until everything has thickened and the bullion cubes have completely dissolved
12.        Stir in the salt and pepper and cook a minute

You now have about 6 servings of soup that will impress your guests and can be used later.  Freeze the leftovers and nuke them when needed.

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