Potato Soup

Hello everyone busy time of the year again!! Christmas shopping, holiday parties, family get togethers and in my family's case ...birthday parties! But you know what is the best part is....it is soup season! We love soup around here. I make a lot of home made soup in the fall/winter. It is so easy, and you can eat it for more than 1 meal. I usually make enough to eat for dinner lunch and than dinner again...and if you get sick of it before then you can always freeze it for later!


Potato soup you will needs:

Medium onion
6 celery sticks
Garlic clove crushed
6 medium red potatoes
1 lb Jimmy Dean regular sausage
6 cup chicken stock
2 c cream or milk for lighter soup
6T Butter
6T Flour
Salt, pepper, garlic other seasoning if you feel the need


I start by cutting up the celery and onion, peeling and cubing the potatoes(about 1/2 inch pieces) and browing the sausage.

 

Once the veggies are cut up, put them in a stock pot with your 6 cups of chicken stock. This is when i would season my soup, including the clove of garlic! You could also wait until the cream is added. Drain browned sausage and set aside.

 



Boil the veggies until they are soft. Then add your cream. It is also time to make your roux. Melt the butter in a seperate pan, and mix in the flour, heat through. It should look like wet beach sand! Once the soup mixture with the cream has heated back to boiling add the roux. Mix in quickly with a wire whisk and let cook for about 3 minutes. Add the sausage and mix.

Soups on!

If you dont like pork sausage, you could try bacon, or ham, or turkey sausage! This is a really good fill you up soup and as always, super easy! You gotta try this soup!