Idaho Baked Potato Soup

My mom is a big potato fan. She found a postcard with a potato soup recipe on it and wanted to try it. My mom was the one who mostly made this, i just helped get her things and such. Recipe for this will be posted at the bottom, since it was on a postcard, i just took pictures of it, i can write it out if anyone requests it.

The soup was good. We also had grilled cheese with soup, so i got full pretty fast from the soup being thick. Only thing i'd probably change about it would be making the potato chunks alittle smaller. But i just like things being smaller and bite size.

Would of been nice if a little more bacon in it. I just love bacon. Maybe i should make some sort of bacon soup lol.

While my mom was getting the potatoes for this soup, she found this fun little potato that looks like a heart. I thought it would be perfect for pictures with the soup, this was the best one i got.

Now for the recipe: (i wish i knew if we had an Idaho magnet...might of, but my daughter likes the magnets and loses them. So i picked our Oregon one because that's where i'm from)

Creamy Tomato Soup

This is the soup i made: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/creamy-tomato-soup-10000001892157/

Tomato soup is probably one of my biggest comfort foods. Along with grilled cheese, i can eat either of them  probably close to every day, on own or together lol. Though for all these other foods i want to try, i wouldn't have time for all of them if i had grilled cheese and/or tomato soup lol.

I've been liking the idea of making soups myself just for the sake of saying i made soup. I'm perfectly fine with canned soup for the convenience. Someday i want to try a vegetable soup.

As for this soup, it was pretty good, i feel was little less tomato taste than others. I also didn't use a blender, i used my little ninja processor. If i used the blender, might of made it just a little smoother than it was. The texture mine came out was fine for me, but was nothing like campbell's tomato soup, though makes sense because it's not campbell's.

It did make more soup that i could eat in one sitting, a downfall to making myself food with no one to share with. Just left overs i guess.

Tomato Soup Mac and Cheese with Garlic Bread

Originally i was trying to figure out something to make that was sweet, but found a picture i had pinned on pinterest of a mac and tomato soup. I figured it would be simple enough to make that i didn't check if i had the stuff for the actual recipe so i just did it myself.

First i cooked the mac, then i added the tomato soup to the noodles after draining them and returning them to the pot. Instead of using a full can of milk, i only used about half's worth. Did that to help keep it a little thicker and to give more of a tomato taste to it. I also added some shredded cheddar cheese to it(saved a little to add to the top for the picture). There was a tiny bit of oregano added to try and give a little extra flavor to it. The garlic bread is just buttermilk bread with butter and garlic salt then toasted/grilled(whatever it's called lol) in a pan on the stove.

Taste wise, it was really good. Will make again when i want tomato soup but not so much just soup. It's simple to make too.


On a slightly different topic....i really like this picture i took for it lol. i'm trying to work on taking better pictures with my canon t2i, so i got this when just snapping a few pictures.