Thursdays Are For Cooking….
Baby red potatoes
It is cold, rainy and dull and boring, so I thought that you would all like some soup this time.
This comes from Genius Kitchen, potato soup made with leftover (or boxed) mashed potatoes.
Smashed Potato Soup from Genius Kitchen
2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons bacon drippings
1?2 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
14 1?2 ounces chicken broth (boxed is okay)
1?2 teaspoon kosher salt
1?4 teaspoon black pepper
1?2 teaspoon sweet paprika (I consider this to be optional)
2 cups prepared mashed potatoes (leftover is great, or the boxed mix, too)
1?2 cup cheddar cheese
2 scallions, finely chopped (Green onions are fine, too.)
3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons cream or 2 tablespoons half-and-half
Instructions:
Cook bacon, and set aside to crumble.
In a large saucepan, cook onion in butter or dripping until softened.
Add chopped mushrooms and cook until tender and onion is golden.
Add chicken broth, salt, pepper, and paprika, stirring to mix.
Blend in mashed potatoes, stirring until lumps are gone.
Bring soup to a boil, then lower heat and add cheddar cheese, stirring until it is melted and smooth.
Mix in scallions, crumbled bacon, sour cream, and cream/half and half, stirring to heated through but not to boiling point.
When you serve this, top it with some of the crumbled bacon, some cutup green onion tails, and some of the shredded cheddar.
Put a sandwich with it and enjoy it. On a cold, rainy, obnoxiously stubborn gray day, this and a good book fill the void of boredom.
Bears won their division title against the Packers last week. Yes, I did rub my sister’s nose in it. She says it only happened because she went to Italy. Okay, sure. (Snort!) Heh.
Category: Economy
Now that’s a winter recipe! Thanks, Ex.
Careful with that boxed chicken broth- very salty. Get unsalted broth, and adjust for seasoning just before serving.
Or make your own broth. It’s not hard to do and now you know exactly what’s in it. Not to mention saving a few Shekels. Win-win.
I would say ‘make your own’, but my sister will not tell me how SHE does it just so. Hers is better than mine. (Pout, whine.)
She did mumble something once about “feet”. Might have meant keeping them dry. Yeah, that was it.
You spelled sammich wrong but, otherwise, the recipe reads good. It’s amazing how delightful sour cream with scallions of green onions can be as a topping to make tomato soup even better than it is. I like the idea of the mushrooms.
Paprika is one of those hit or miss flavors. We have a couple of varieties and I use it as both a flavor enhancer as well as for presentation value.
It’s hard to find a really decent sharp cheddar cheese in Northeastern Massachusetts. OTOH, the cheese is not supposed to overwhelm the recipe.
Bon appetit!
There are sammiches, and then there are sammiches.
Weekend coming up. Something about cold and snow somewhere – changes with the time of day.
Stay warm and dry!