Real Soup

Last week I made soup.  Homemade potato soup.

Start a half-pound of smoke bacon - diced - and fry until brown.  

Assemble your taters (cut with skins on), stock and the drained bacon.

Sweat a chopped sweet onion along with a couple of minced garlic cloves in a bit of the bacon fat.

Add the potatoes and chicken stock, cover and simmer 40 minutes or until the taters are al dente.

Add your dairy and thicken with a slurry of corn or potato starch.  Add-back the bacon.

I scored a fistful of fresh chives from beneath the snow in the kitchen garden.  Cut those into the soup immediately before serving to add a wee bit of fresh brightness.

Good chow if you  can get it on a snowy-wet, dank day.  Serve by fireside and Sunday football.....