"Best 'Poup' Ever!!"

Well, it is finally fall break and I am in Missouri for a relaxing weekend with Kory and his family. It has been a wonderful weekend full of great food and fun times! I do have one complaint though, it is sooo COLD!!! So, I decided to make soup this week. ☺

When I told Kory’s sister I was going to make soup, she excitedly said “OH! You’re making poup!?” Being that she is a seventeen year old girl, I wondered why she called it ‘poup’. She explained to me that when she was little, she used to pronounce ‘soup,’ as ‘poup.’ I thought it was pretty cute and funny so I went along with it as I began to cook for the evening.

The recipe was the easiest one yet! I followed the Julia Child’s recipe for Leek and Potato soup, except instead of using leeks, I used onions. Here were the few things I used for it:

• 3 cups sliced leeks (or onions)
• 3 cups peeled and roughly chopped "baking" potatoes)
• 6 cups water) • 1-1/2 teaspoons salt) • 1/2 cup sour cream

I added butter, of course, to add a little more flavor and then a little pepper and a lot of cheese to make it a little more thick and yummy! I must say it was good! I was worried at one point because my soup just looked liked water and potatoes; but once I added a little flour and milk, along with the sour cream, it thickened and turned out well. Before I put the onions in the soup, I put them on the skillet with butter until they were soft. This little extra step made the onions blend great with the soup.

Might I add that I found what might be the greatest invention EVER…..an ONION CHOPPER!!! How wonderful to not have to spend nearly as long cutting all those stinkin onions! Onions really burn my eyes as is; so I usually have Kory cut the onions. But Kory’s mom had an onion chopper and thought I might have died and gone to heaven! (I know, life’s little pleasures..) I am asking for an onion chopper from Santa for Christmas for sure!!

I think this is the easiest recipe so far. Kory wants it to go on his ‘favorites’ list so that I will make it again. It didn’t take long at all and there was nothing confusing or hard about the recipe. So this is great meal for college students maybe for a sick friend, or a cold day!

When I was finally done making the potato and onion soup, I asked Kory’s sister if the soup was good. She replied, “best ‘poup’ ever!”…I took that as yes!