Soup and bread. It's what's for dinner [wenatchee food photography]

Hubby made a delicious chunky yukon gold potato soup with (you had me at) bacon. Hands down the smoothest, creamiest, best tasting potato soup ever. It was so good, in fact, it deserved it's own loaf of crusty, dense, slathered-with-butter, warm from the oven beer bread. So I made that to go along and for two nights now, we have eaten like kings. Simple, satisfied, well-fed kings. Recipe below image.

Yukon Gold Potato Soup

6 medium Yukon Gold potatoes
32 oz. chicken stock
1 tablespoon bacon grease
1 large yellow onion, diced
2 celery stalks, diced
1 pinch thyme
2 teaspoons black pepper
2 teaspoons sea salt
6 tablespoons butter
16 oz. half and half
2-1/2 tablespoons flour
4-5 slices cooked, crisp bacon

1. Dice potatoes into bite-sized pieces, put into stock/soup pot and add chicken stock. Add enough water to cover potatoes (you can add some chicken bouillon if you had to add a lot of water.)
2. Bring to boil then reduce to medium heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. In medium saute pan, add bacon grease, diced onions, diced celery, thyme, black pepper, sea salt and bacon.
4. Saute onion mixture until onions are soft, then add to pot with potatoes and broth.
5. Add butter and flour to empty saute pan on medium heat and make roux. Slowly add half and half, stirring constantly to avoid lumps.
6. Once roux has thickened, add to potato mixture and simmer on medium-low for 15 minutes.

Comments

[Jun]

I'm going to make this. And be king for weekend. Thanks for sharing!

[ShopCookMake]

Beautiful!

[B]

looks so tasty! do you have a recipe for the beer bread too?

[Lulu]

I would also like the bread recipe! I can't tell, but it looks like from the photo that it may have garlic in it? I need that bread!

[Lulu]

Picked up some Banana Fingerling potatoes at the farmer's market yesterday, so I whipped up this soup last night for dinner. Heavenly!!

[The American Palate]

Wooooow! Thanks for sharing such a delicious recipe. I just made this soup for lunch today, after saving the recipe on my desk top for a few days. This was so simple and fast!!

Thanks! Nice pics as well!! Will post this recipe on my site and link to your page! :)

Cate

[Jeff G.]

I cannot find the beer bread recipe. I found the potato soup one. Could you please forward the beer bread one or let me know where on the site it is? Thanks.

[McBoob]

This soup is awesome. Made a little change from yellow onions to leeks, and it's fantastic.