I'm still in the Irish mode. I'll be making Potato Soup for lunch and working in the gardens. Providing the temps are moderate. I don't have a recipe for the soup; I just make it on the fly. I use home made stock with a milk base. It's got about 6 or 7 potatoes peeled and diced, a couple of onions, butter and parsley. That's it.
Michael
-- "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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I'm still in the Irish mode. I'll be making Potato Soup for lunch and working in the gardens. Providing the temps are moderate. I don't have a recipe for the soup; I just make it on the fly. I use home made stock with a milk base. It's got about 6 or 7 potatoes peeled and diced, a couple of onions, butter and parsley. That's it.
Michael
That's all you need. Sounds great. However -- tee hee -- for ease you could add a teensy bit of celery seed -- have you ever done that to homemade potato soup? Dee Dee
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That's all you need. Sounds great. However -- tee hee -- for ease you could add a teensy bit of celery seed -- have you ever done that to homemade potato soup? Dee Dee
No I have not. I'll try it today. Celery seed huh? I've celery stalks and celery seed. I'll try the seed first. The potatoes are just now boiling.
Michael
-- "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
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That's all you need. Sounds great. However -- tee hee -- for ease you could add a teensy bit of celery seed -- have you ever done that to homemade potato soup? Dee Dee
No I have not. I'll try it today. Celery seed huh? I've celery stalks and celery seed. I'll try the seed first. The potatoes are just now boiling.
Michael
Go easy on the seed. Usually I add a celery stalk if I have one; if not, I will put some seed in. But either is good; seed is easier. Penzy's carries dried celery, but the price is exhorbitant! Dee Dee
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That's all you need. Sounds great. However -- tee hee -- for ease you could add a teensy bit of celery seed -- have you ever done that to homemade potato soup? Dee Dee
No I have not. I'll try it today. Celery seed huh? I've celery stalks and celery seed. I'll try the seed first. The potatoes are just now boiling.
Michael
Go easy on the seed. Usually I add a celery stalk if I have one; if not, I will put some seed in. But either is good; seed is easier. Penzy's carries dried celery, but the price is exhorbitant! Dee Dee
But I love Penzy's. Gawd, some of their blends are wonderful.
Michael
-- "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
I'm still in the Irish mode. I'll be making Potato Soup for lunch and working in the gardens. Providing the temps are moderate. I don't have a recipe for the soup; I just make it on the fly. I use home made stock with a milk base. It's got about 6 or 7 potatoes peeled and diced, a couple of onions, butter and parsley. That's it.
I made potato soup for the first time a month or so ago, and it was USMC voted as one of my best. Just luck, I say, as I found the simple recipe online to tempt me for using up the too many little red rose potatoes hanging out countertop the night before my usual Farmers Market trip one Saturday. As to the Penzeys' seasoning blends, hah! Penzeys shopping caused me to "redecorate" my tiny kitchen's one bare wall with a tri-level custom built spice rack to hold two rows of the usual size bottles and one shorter row along the top for those small ones. At my rate of use I now wish I'd had the rack built with several short rows and just one larger one, as I'm most often cooking for only myself.
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Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:
I'm still in the Irish mode. I'll be making Potato Soup for lunch and working in the gardens. Providing the temps are moderate. I don't have a recipe for the soup; I just make it on the fly. I use home made stock with a milk base. It's got about 6 or 7 potatoes peeled and diced, a couple of onions, butter and parsley. That's it.
I made potato soup for the first time a month or so ago, and it was USMC voted as one of my best. Just luck, I say, as I found the simple recipe online to tempt me for using up the too many little red rose potatoes hanging out countertop the night before my usual Farmers Market trip one Saturday. As to the Penzeys' seasoning blends, hah! Penzeys shopping caused me to "redecorate" my tiny kitchen's one bare wall with a tri-level custom built spice rack to hold two rows of the usual size bottles and one shorter row along the top for those small ones. At my rate of use I now wish I'd had the rack built with several short rows and just one larger one, as I'm most often cooking for only myself.
Picky
ROFL... Penzeys will do that to you 😉 The store is only a few miles from me. I hate the parking so I shop online.
Potato soup is easy enough. I think the best (besides the seasonings) is the stock I use. It is fresh and very good. I'm about to have a bowl of Potato Soup. Care to join me? Bring some bread. I'm out of it and too lazy to go get some.
Michael
-- "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
I use home made stock with a milk base. It's got about 6 or 7 potatoes peeled and diced, a couple of onions, butter and parsley. That's it.
Michael, here's how we made potato soup in my last restaurant; a two-stage cook. Much larger quantities, though. The proportions are variable depending on your taste.
6 (or more) large spuds 1 cup stock (we used chicken) 1 cup cream your fave seasonings
peel and dice the potatoes. Put 1/2 of them into the pot with the liquids and simmer until they are almost completely broken down. Blend or whisk them to a liquid. Put the rest of the potatoes in and simmer until tender. Thick, rich, creamy. Potato matrix with potato chunks.
We used to put chopped bacon and chopped onion or leeks in ours.
