My friend Brittany D. shared this recipe with me. I tweaked it just a tad, but the basic recipe is the same. It's my new FAVORITE soup recipe! For all my Utah friends that are familiar with it, it's JUST LIKE Maddox's cheddar broccoli. Which is HUGE because i could live on that soup alone.
Here's the basic recipe, and i'll tell ya my tweaks, and what i imagine would be good tweaks at the end!
Creamy Cheesy Potato Soup
6 diced potatoes (raw)
2 cans cream of potato soup
2 cans cheddar cheese soup
1.5 cups or so of diced carrot
1 diced onion (optional)
2 TB butter
milk
Heavy whipping cream
Salt and pepper
** Throw all ingredients in crockpot. Pour enough milk in to cover everything. Add heavy whipping cream (this should be about 3/4 full in a big crockpot. Add more milk if you want more broth. Cook on low for 6-8 hours. Top with shredded cheese.
How stinkin' SIMPLE is this! So here's what i did. I didn't put quite as many potatoes as it called for, because i was running out of room in my crock pot. I need a bigger one. Bad.
I also didn't add the carrots, which was stupid because i just pulled about a bazillion of them out of my garden today. Whatever. My kid gave himself a haircut at 8:30 this morning. Give me a break. I space ingredients when things like this happen.
I added way more than 2 tablespoons of butter. Correction: I forgot it altogether at first. My other kid fell down the stairs this afternoon. Give me a break. I tasted it after it got hot and it was DEFINITELY missing something. Butter. Duh. So i added a LOT of it. At least 4 T. It was a good call. But when is more butter NOT a good call? My kitchen revolves around butter.
At the beginning I threw in lots of frozen broccoli and cauliflower. The reason i even did this to begin with was because I had to go to the store to get the cans of soup. My grocery store was either out of cream of potato, or they don't carry it. I couldn't figure out which. Dumb store.... So I bought cream of broccoli instead and the logical thing to do seemed to be to add more broccoli to the soup. The result was fabulous!
In the future, if i can resist just making this same exact recipe, i'll try one with more of a variety of vegetables in it. Celery (it's the ONLY thing i like celery in), corn, CARROTS.... I think potato and ham might be pretty good too. Maybe cream of chicken soup, shredded chicken and corn. Maybe even add some taco seasoning for a tex-mex version! OOoh, and i bet a little bit of fresh garlic would be great in any version of it!
Like i said, the basic recipe is VERY versatile. And very yummy! And simple! And quick! You need to try it!
