I Made Soup on a Cold, Cold Day

I got a call from Eric at school asking if I would come and pick them up when school ended, because it was so cold. Also that school was canceled for "tomorrow". That's today. I did not pick up the children, rather telling him that they could run home more quickly than I could drive over and wait in a stupid line of mini-vans to pick them up, and that I would have hot chocolate and cookies waiting. That's what we did. I guess the cold really makes you want to bake and cook stuff. Because then, for dinner, I decided to make soup and buns.

I usually make a creamy potato soup and that's pretty good, but I was picturing a delightful hot broth instead, but still with potatoes. So I went online and found a recipe for what I'm calling "Irish Potato Soup." I made "focaccia" buns, that is, buns made in muffin tins with dough intended for focaccia bread. The soup indeed featured a delightful hot broth, and I consider the whole dinner a success. Here's a link to the recipe:


www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recipes/cooking/tatosoup.shtm

My stinkin' keystrokes won't work for copying and pasting right now so I'm a little frustrated. I hope that link works. Anyway, here's the recipe that I made:

6 or 7 medium potatoes
2 medium onions (I used 1/4 c. dried minced onion)
1 T. butter
6 cups "stock" (I used chicken broth/stock left and frozen from cooking chickens)
parsley
salt and pepper (I used 2 t. salt and 1/2 t. pepper)

Peel and dice taters, chop onions. Melt butter and gently cook onion and taters in covered saucepan until soft but not colored. (I tried to do this but the onions started burning, so I added about 1/2 cup of water and cooked them with the lid on until I needed to add the broth for time reasons...) Add liquid, adjust seasoning to taste, seive if desired, serve in bowls garnished with parsley. I did not seive.

That's my news: delicious and not-too-bad-for-you potater soup with warming broth. Even Seth liked it and he's a broth-strainer. I made sure to tell him the broth was a main part of it. Anyway, good times!