Week #1 - Red Potato Soup

Hey everybody! Thanks for visiting my new blog. Like it says above, I love soup, all different kinds of soup. However, I rarely make soup because the few times I have tried it has not gone too well. Either I don't season well, or I burn it. But today I was making a soup recipe that I found on allrecipes.com because I had some leftover red potatoes, and decided that I needed to start trying to cook more soups. And thus, this blog was born! Hopefully I can really keep it up.

So this week's soup was Red Potato Soup. Like I said, I had some red potatoes left over that I wanted to use, so I found this recipe on allrecipes.com. I had all the ingredients for this soup except for chicken broth and seasoning salt.

Ingredients:

8 red potatoes, cubed 1 onion, chopped 1 (49.5 fluid ounce) can chicken broth 1/2 cup margarine 2 tablespoons celery seed

1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 1/2 teaspoons seasoning salt 8 cups milk

I bought chicken broth, but I forgot seasoning salt, and since I am not a great cook, I looked up what I could substitute for it on garvick.com. I ended up throwing in some paprika, dry mustard, and oregano instead.  Directions: 1. In a large saucepan over high heat combine the potatoes, onion, broth, butter or margarine, celery seed, garlic powder, ground black pepper, onion powder and seasoning salt. 2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium low. Simmer for about 15 minutes, or until potatoes are tender. Add the milk, heat through and serve. This soup was easy to make, and pretty fast. I learned that I should have taken some of the reviewers advice and made a roux because the soup was waterier than I would have liked. I did decrease the milk, as was suggested in the reviews. I also added some celery since I had some left over, and I figured what soup couldn't use celery? I thought it tasted really good even though it was a bit watery. I added some shredded cheddar cheese on top, and had some French bread to go with it. I would definitely make this soup again with some of the above changes.  Rating: 4/5 stars