Yummy Soup for a Cool, Brisk, Fall Day!

Today the sun is shining, but it's really quite deceiving.  When you step outside, the weather is brisk, the wind is blowing and it's really a great day to stay inside and enjoy some warm, cozy foods like soup! 

Quite a few years ago, a friend gave me a simple, inexpensive recipe for soup that I have used over and over.  It has also been a much requested recipe as well.

Potato Leek Soup
3-4 Leeks - Cut the ends of and the greens.  Slice the leeks down the middle and then run them under water to clean out all of the dirt that likes to hide in the layers. Then chop them up somewhat fine.
1 Stick of butter
5-10lbs of potatoes depending on your family size. Peeled and cut into chunks (not overally large)
Water
salt and pepper to taste- salt is really key to this recipe being yummy!

Melt the butter in your stockpot.  Add the leeks and cook until they are limp.  Add potatoes, salt and pepper  and just cover them with water.  Cook until potatoes are done.  Then either with a blender, or one of those nifty hand blenders, mix the soup until desired consistency.  (We like ours to have some chunks of potatoes left, but not too many as the more you blend the thicker your soup.)  After you have done this add more salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!

What I love about this soup, is that today when I made it, I didn't have any leeks, so instead I used a nice sized onion and it tasted just as good! 

 

So warm and filling on a cool, fall day!