The Best Potato Soup You Will Ever Make

The Best Potato Soup You will EVER Make

What sounds good when it’s cold, windy and dark outside?  Well?  Home made soup of course!  So this week I made Potato Soup with Grilled Avocado and Tomato Sandwiches for dinner. 

This potato soup is awesome and creamy and just plain good. For extra creamy-ness, here’s a secret…use cream cheese!  It makes this soup so creamy and good that you can’t imagine the soup without it!

There’s only one trick to it…you have to make sure it gets hot enough to entirely disperse into the soup, otherwise you will have tiny pieces of cream cheese all over the soup and it looks well…weird.

Hope you enjoy! 

Everything You'll Need

Ingredients for Soup:

• 5 Russett potatoes
• 1 – 32 ounce container of chicken stock
• 1 – 12oz block of cream cheese
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp of pepper (black or white pepper works good in this recipie)
• Any toppings you would like (I used bacon, cheddar, and scallions)

Directions for Soup:

1. Peel and chop the potatoes to your desired size (the hubby likes tiny pieces of potato when we have soup so I chopped quite a bit)
2. Put the potatoes in a large soup pot and fill with chicken broth (add water if you need to cover the potatoes a bit more – I had to add about a cup more of water to the chicken broth
3. When potatoes are done slowly mash some of the potatoes to help the soup thicken
4.  Add a full block of cream cheese (I used the 1/3 less fat cream cheese and it still turned out good) milk, garlic, and pepper
5. Bring to a boil again. **Here’s the hard part, the cream cheese will need time to get to the right temperature and really thicken the soup, bringing the soup to a slow boil for a bit will help this.  Make sure to watch the pot as if it boils over it can make a little mess. **
6. After about 20 minutes the soup should be all creamy and ready to enjoy!



I used a small pot but the recipe doubles well
for more people


7. Using a soup spoon, fill your bowls to desired portion and top with whatever potato toppings you like! *(Our favorites are bacon, cheddar, scallions, and avocado!)

Ingredients for Spur of the Moment Grilled Cheeses!

• Bread (whatever you have on hand) 
• Cheese (whatever you have on hand, blending cheeses is always yummy!)
• Fillings (we had tomatoes, and avocados)







Last minute addition to dinner

• Butter for bread

Directions for Spur of the Moment Grilled Cheeses!

1. Very lightly butter each side of bread for the sandwiches
2. Add filling 
3. Put on heated griddle/non stick pan and heat about 5 minutes per side (seriously, I had a picture for this, but apparently with the million times I was trying to place the photo, I deleted it...so use your imagination :) )
4. When they are at the desired melting consistency, they’re done!

The Finished Product!