Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.

Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.

Wow, I completely forgot I used to make potato soup religiously for years, and haven’t done it at all for many more. You wonder how these things come and go in your repertoire.

I lived off bacon fat fried potatoes for a long time. I haven’t made them in decades. My after school snack used to be a pound of pasta and a stick of butter with salt and pepper. Haven’t made it since middle school.

I would come home from school, cut up an apple and put it on a plate of white sugar and cinnamon. Needless to say, I was a latchkey kid. I paid for it with fillings.

Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.

Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.

The recipe I used. I made it to letter in order to avoid ruining a comfort food and sleeping on the couch. But I’m all in favor of your ideas. Only after she ate it did she remember that I should have added bacon.

Some chicken or vegetable stock of some kind would be an improvement.

And then if you added a bunch of leeks you’re grtting close to a vichyssoise.

I used to do a potato leak soup all the time but my food desert makes leaks a very rare item.

I have gallons of stock on hand that I have canned myself. I do not believe in using it for when I will be discarding it, things like boiling pasta or potatoes in. It’s too valuable a resource to drain off even if it’s practically free.

Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.

Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.

Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.

Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.

For some reason, I read this as cream of pistachio soup and got, really, way too excited.

The recipe I used. I made it to letter in order to avoid ruining a comfort food and sleeping on the couch. But I’m all in favor of your ideas. Only after she ate it did she remember that I should have added bacon.

Hey, just want you to know that I made this recipe after seeing this post, and it was absolutely delicious, thank you!