Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.
Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.
Wow, I completely forgot I used to make potato soup religiously for years, and haven’t done it at all for many more. You wonder how these things come and go in your repertoire.
I lived off bacon fat fried potatoes for a long time. I haven’t made them in decades. My after school snack used to be a pound of pasta and a stick of butter with salt and pepper. Haven’t made it since middle school.
I would come home from school, cut up an apple and put it on a plate of white sugar and cinnamon. Needless to say, I was a latchkey kid. I paid for it with fillings.
No latch for me. I may have seen my dad just once a month for about a year of middle school and then maybe twice a year the rest of the time. I needed 6000 calories a day on the cheap and this ‘snack’ offered 2400. It’s probably impossible to eat 2400 calories in sugared apples in a single setting. That’s probably 15 apples and half a cup of sugar. Or 25 apples with no sugar.
Would love a recipe if you have it. Looks delicious!
I would make this and throw in some Italian sausage and chopped kale
The recipe I used. I made it to letter in order to avoid ruining a comfort food and sleeping on the couch. But I’m all in favor of your ideas. Only after she ate it did she remember that I should have added bacon.
Hey, just want you to know that I made this recipe after seeing this post, and it was absolutely delicious, thank you!
Glad to hear it.
Some chicken or vegetable stock of some kind would be an improvement.
And then if you added a bunch of leeks you’re grtting close to a vichyssoise.
I used to do a potato leak soup all the time but my food desert makes leaks a very rare item.
I have gallons of stock on hand that I have canned myself. I do not believe in using it for when I will be discarding it, things like boiling pasta or potatoes in. It’s too valuable a resource to drain off even if it’s practically free.
Oh no dont pour it off, include it in the soup. Didnt realise the water was only for cooking the potatoes, but you can replace some of the milk with stock and cream.
Immersion Blender is a fucking necessity in the kitchen. Everyone should have one.
It is absolutely vital for some things. This is definitely one of them
Potato soup is amazing and so comforting.
Why is Dr Jumba sad :(
‘Cream-style’ soup is flippin’ way underrated!
It can be super-dang-healthy, depending on how made. Eh, my name is Patrick McGoohan, and I’ve a bit of an attitude about a prison diet… and stuff.
For some reason, I read this as cream of pistachio soup and got, really, way too excited.
I’m both worried about you and excited about your idea.
