Potato soup is one of those things that I make when I need comfort food on the fly. In about 30 minutes I can have a big bowl of love without a lot of effort or expensive ingredients. It can be made as easy or as complicated as you like, but I go for simple. Bacon, potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, milk and chicken stock is about it. Sometimes I add cheese, sometimes beer, at times chicken or beans or some sort of fish makes it way in to the pot. Today I need simple. A couple of slices of really good applewood bacon are diced small and tossed in to the pot with a lump of butter. (If you're using a bacon that you know renders a lot of fat, hold off on the butter. I happen to know that this bacon is pretty lean so I add the butter.) Diced red onion, carrots and celery go in, then diced potato. No, I don't peel mine, but you can if you like. Season well with salt and pepper, and let it cook until the veggies get a little color. Then add milk and stock, and bring it up to a simmer. Cook until the potatoes are tender. From beginning to end, it took about 45 minutes in my new shiny stock pot that my brilliant brother Timothy gave me for Christmas. Isn't it pretty?? Some went in to the mini crock for The Man to take for lunch, along with a side of shredded cheddar to top it with, the rest will cool a bit on the stove and then get packed for the 'fridge, after I have a bit of it of course.
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