All right, before I get to the yummy baked potato soup recipe, here's my menu for the week:
Monday: chicken salad on fresh bread
Tuesday: chicken enchilada casserole (a yummy meal all ready to go in my freezer)
Wednesday: swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, IKEA gravy
Thursday: barley beef soup
Friday: hamburgers, homemade baked fries
Saturday: easy night
Sunday: sweet and sour meatballs and rice
What are you making this week?
Okay, onto the soup. My sister-in-law, Maggie, sent me her yummy recipe for baked potato soup. I think next time I make it it will turn out a little better, but everyone loved it!
Baked Potato Souprecipe from Maggie
5 baking potatoes (baked)
6 c. milk
2/3 c. chicken broth
16 oz. cheddar cheese
1/2 brick of cream cheese
1 pkg bacon (cooked, crumbled) reserve fat
3 or 4 scallions
1 yellow onion
1/3 c. + 2 T flour
1/3 c. sour cream
Cook bacon, reserving 2 T. bacon fat. Chop onions and saute in fat until soft. Add flour and stir cooking about 1 min. Slowly stir in chicken broth. Add cream cheese and mix until melted. Blend this part in the blender. Then put back in pot.
Add milk and let soup warm and thicken on med/low about 10 min or more. Add cheese stirring slowly. Add 1/3 c. sour cream. let cook 5 more min.
Monday: chicken salad on fresh bread
Tuesday: chicken enchilada casserole (a yummy meal all ready to go in my freezer)
Wednesday: swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, IKEA gravy
Thursday: barley beef soup
Friday: hamburgers, homemade baked fries
Saturday: easy night
Sunday: sweet and sour meatballs and rice
What are you making this week?
Okay, onto the soup. My sister-in-law, Maggie, sent me her yummy recipe for baked potato soup. I think next time I make it it will turn out a little better, but everyone loved it!
Baked Potato Souprecipe from Maggie
5 baking potatoes (baked)
6 c. milk
2/3 c. chicken broth
16 oz. cheddar cheese
1/2 brick of cream cheese
1 pkg bacon (cooked, crumbled) reserve fat
3 or 4 scallions
1 yellow onion
1/3 c. + 2 T flour
1/3 c. sour cream
Cook bacon, reserving 2 T. bacon fat. Chop onions and saute in fat until soft. Add flour and stir cooking about 1 min. Slowly stir in chicken broth. Add cream cheese and mix until melted. Blend this part in the blender. Then put back in pot.
Add milk and let soup warm and thicken on med/low about 10 min or more. Add cheese stirring slowly. Add 1/3 c. sour cream. let cook 5 more min.