Your weekly soul- and tummy-warmer, thank you Bad Horse’s Filly:
it’s always good to have a soup recipe on hand for when the cold weather returns. And there’s nothing better on a cold night than Creamy Potato Cheese Soup.
On the board tonight:
(1) Cream of Potato Cheese Soup
(2) Orange-Walnut Spinach Salad
(3) Pear and Sour Cherry Crisp
Click the blue text for recipes and shopping list. Mmm, taties & cheez!
Yutsano
OH MY GRAVY I’m hungry again and I just ate like two hours ago! Plus I had a really crappy chowder from a can (don’t judge me!) and that just sounds wondrous.
IndyLib
Sounds scrumptious.
BHF, how many servings does the soup recipe make?
ellaesther
Wow, and holy crow. I don’t usually get wrapped up in this sort of on-line food extravaganza, but — wow. And holy crow!
I do believe I’ll be printing all of this out!
r€nato
soup? LOL it was 93 here today. It’s at least a month from soup weather here in the Sonoran Desert…
Linkmeister
Here’s something fascinating: go over to Little Green Footballs. You’ll discover that the top two posts are 1) a photo from Hubble and 2) a tech review of Apple’s Magic Mouse. The third and fourth posts pertain to the Ft. Hood shooting, but are confined to facts as reported by the MSM. Facts later proven to be incorrect (3 shooters; shooter dead), but that’s not LGF’s fault.
A while back there’s have been frothing at the mouth coming from Johnson’s pages. Maybe he really has grown up?
Yutsano
@Linkmeister: Seeing the light can sometimes be a hallelujah moment (a la John) or some get there in small incremental steps. I doubt I’d recognize the place if I went over there now.
Snark Based Reality
Apologies if this has been posted already but…
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident
“Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck”
This. Is. Awesome.
slag
@Snark Based Reality: I generally don’t appreciate humor about people dying, but they mastered the art on this one. I laughed in spite of myself.
apistat
I know this is true about nearly everything, but a little bacon in the soup (sprinkled in your bowl, not cooked along with it) makes it 10 times better.
Yutsano
@apistat: I was thinking either bacon or beer or even both!
freelancer (itouch)
@Snark Based Reality:
I saw this last week, but it’s worth reposting.
Anyone see wednesday’s FNL? The genius character writing of nascent characters in the show gave us a great moment where the head coach of Texas Tech plays a batshit football nut who tells Taylor that he “needs to find his inner pirate”. Just awesome stuff.
Yutsano
I think this is a blind squirrel/acorn moment (see what I did there?) and it’s possible this is romanticized, but I found this article compelling and touching:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/05/neda.mom.speaks/index.html
MBSS
what’s some good food to make with a broken hand?
freelancer (itouch)
@MBSS:
What’s good to cook blind?
kommrade reproductive vigor
The Republican Governor’s ad is cracking me up. 2 states down, 37 to go!
Sure guys, dream big. Christie big.
Comrade javafascist
Yes, bacon on top of a potato cheese soup is sublime. I make mine a little differently, boiling the potatoes separately. In the main pot, I saute onions, celery, garlic in olive oil and butter. Add the flour and spices to make a roux. Add white wine and reduce (used to use beer but found it left a bitter aftertaste. Probably just needed to use cheap crap beer.) Add chicken stock and milk. Boil. Add potatoes. Blend thoroughly with a wand mixer. Add cheese. Serve.
R-Jud
I am enjoying some jambalaya made with leftover Bonfire Night sausages. Personally I find potato and cheese soup a bit heavy. Potato and leek with lemon and dill? That’s more like it.
The salad, however, sounds fantastic, and I’m totally going to try it.
namekarB
@MBSS:
First debone the hand . . .
someguy
Nice recipes, but if they don’t turn out right, can we blame the Moose Limbs?
Svensker
Oooh, I have an excess of taters hanging around. Sounds like a good football Sunday recipe.
Kirk Spencer
@Svensker: If that’s your case, make crispy potato skins.
Bake the potatoes to not-quite done. Scoop out and save the filling for another meal (lots of options). Start up the deep fryer, and cook the skins till they’re crisp. Salt them as soon as they come out.
Use them as big potato-chips or as boats. For boats fill them with, well, you can go healthy or you can go for true couch potato mode. If you want to get unusual do something with the potato you scooped out, use it as the base for a dip/filling (mixing it heavily with things like cheddar cheese and/or sour cream and/or onions and garlic and minced jalapenos and/or bacon…) There’s one time I filled them with sloppy joe mix and another I filled with Q’d pork.
AJ
Unless I missed it, it does not mention the number of servings you get from this recipe. I’m guessing 4…? Anyone…?
AnnPW
Yum! A friend of mine recently made a wonderful cream of potato-cheese soup but instead of cheddar he used English stilton, and also substited leeks for the onion. It was to die for.
You would probably want a different salad with it, though. I’ve been on a grapefruit and avocado binge lately.