Soup-er!

I HAVE to write about how absolutely delicious the soup I made yesterday was... and after you read this you HAVE to make it!!

First of all there is a reason I made this delectable soup which is where I will start; on our semi-honeymoon me and D spent the day touring around and we stopped at this quaint cafe off the highway for lunch where I had Cream of Potato & Bacon soup and it was SO good that I could have died! (Yes I realize I exaggerate a lot...) SO of course I wanted to make it which is exactly what I did yesterday and here is the recipe:

Cream of Potato Soup With Bacon

6 strips of bacon, diced

1 onion, diced

3 cloves garlic, chopped

4-5 large potatoes, cubed

6 cups chicken broth

1/2 cup sour cream

1/2 cup grated cheese (i like marble)

1 bay leaf

Salt & Pepper

Chives (for topping)

In a large frying pan cook bacon until crisp, put on paper towel lined plate. Reserve 2 tbsp of cooking fat from bacon and put in large soup pot.

Add onion and garlic to pot and cook for 12 min on med heat. Add potatoes broth and bay leaf; cook on med-high until potatoes soften, 15 minutes or so. Once soft take potato masher and mash potatoes in pot. Add sour cream, bacon, salt & pepper and bring soup to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes (soup will thicken during this time)

Serve topped with grated cheese & chives.

I promise you this soup is SO yummy and it's an awesome (and easy) comfort food when it's cold outside! I took some pictures but I'll be honest my camera isn't the best and I'm not very talented at picture taking so they don't fully do it justice but when I figure out how to load them I will put them on here for a visual.

This weekend I'm making Italian Wedding soup for my Daddy's Birthday (his favorite!) so I will post that one if all goes well!