As I may have mentioned yesterday, we are enjoying the fruits of our potato-picking excursion and currently have about 45 pounds of spuds lounging about the house. This week, I’ve decided to make a dent in the collection by selecting some potato-friendly recipes for our dinnertime meals. On tonight’s docket: Vegan potato soup!
Now, I’ve made this recipe time and again, and it never disappoints. Tonight, I washed and diced about six potatoes – and in the interest of time and/or laziness, I left the skins on, because why not – and placed them in my trusty Le Creuset along with a diced onion and plenty of salt, pepper, and garlic powder. I covered the potatoes with water and set the pot to a boil, then bringing the heat down to Medium once things got rolling.
After about 25 minutes or so, the potatoes were wonderfully soft and the onions were tender, and I knew it was time to drain some of the water off and get my masher out! So I did just that, leaving a smidge of water in the bottom of the pot, and then mashed the heck out of the potatoes, breaking them apart but also leaving some larger bits intact. Then I added several cups of almond milk, stirred everything around to blend, and heated the pot up again for about 3 minutes on Low, just so the almond milk would be nice and warm.
Get the ladle out – time to eat!
We topped our soup with vegan bacon bits (did you know Bacos are vegan? Get thee to the salad-topping aisle!) and I added some nutritional yeast, as one does. Then we dug straight in and mowed down two bowls apiece, also as one does. The comfort that emanates from this meal – always a favorite growing up and still a favorite today – is simply indescribable. No matter what the day throws at you (and, since we’re on the topic, today threw a parking ticket at me for “misuse of meter,” which I didn’t even know was a law on the books, but there you have it), potato soup takes the edge off. It certainly has tonight!
And perhaps it will take the edge off for one of us tomorrow, as well; there’s enough left for somebody’s lunch!
:)