I've just added this recipe to the cookbook -
http://cookbook.uk-yankee.com/link.php?action=detail&id=137It's an easy soup to make and very tasty. Great for this sort of weather. The cookbook I modified it from uses sweet potatoes and regular potatoes and doesn't use meat.
For cold nights, an easy to cook potato soup. Modified from "Saving Dinner" cookbook.
Ingredients:
4 Potatoes, peeled and quartered
2 or 3 onions, chopped
3 or 4 cloves of garlic, pressed
Kielbasa or other meat (ham, sausage)
2 cubes chicken stock + water
1 teas thyme
1/8 teas cayenne pepper
Salt & Pepper
2 cups milk
Directions:
In your soup pot, sautee chopped onions in oil or butter until see-through. Add meat, sautee for a wee while. Then add potatoes and garlic, cook for 3 minutes or so. Add chicken stock, bring to boil. Add thyme and cayenne pepper. Simmer for 10 or 15 minutes to soften potatoes.
Take your potato masher and mash your potatoes (in soup pot). Leave a little chunky, for texture. Add two cups milk, let it warm (not boil), salt & pepper to taste, and now you have a lovely soup for a cold night.
Ketchup or hot sauce goes well with it.
