Dinner: Potato soup and Breadsticks.

I'm a big fan of buying those 10 lb bags of potatoes at Winco. You can't really get a better deal for 2 bucks (at least I think it's 2 bucks...my brain is a bit fuzzy this morning). The problem I've had in the past is finding ways to use them all up before they go bad. Well, thankfully Fall is here! Hooray for cool weather, the perfect excuse to make massive amounts of different types of soup with those potatoes. I haven't been using a recipe, mostly because I don't have everything on hand that I need for that particular recipe. So I've just been winging it. I do believe that last night was my greatest creation yet. I ended up with a yummy, cheesy, potato soup which I served with Breadsticks (also very yummy). The soup consisted of the following.

5 Potatoes, cut into a bit less than 1 inch chunks.
2 Carrots, cut up.
Just a bit of chopped onion
About 2 1/4 cup of Chicken broth.
Milk
Cheese
1-2 TBSP of flour.

I cooked my veggies in the chicken broth until tender, and grated the cheese and left it sitting out while the veggies were cooking. Letting your cheese get closer to Room temperature before adding it to your soup will get rid of that grainy texture a lot of cheese soups have. I probably had about a cup of cheese. Once the veggies were done cooking I added my milk. I honestly have no clue how much I added, just enough to make it soupy and the right color (for me). Then I added my cheese and stirred until it melted. Take a bit of the broth out after that, place it in a separate bowl, and whisk in the flour until smooth. Add that to the rest of the pot, it was a great thickness for me. And yes, I'm kinda guessing on the flour amount...like I said..I just wing it these days.

The breadsticks made me very happy.

1 recipe Pizza dough
Olive oil
Parmasan cheese
Oregano
Salt
Garlic Powder

Prepare pizza dough, and roll it out. Brush with Olive Oil, and top with your favorite toppings. Once again, I didn't measure. Just kinda sprinkled to my hearts delight :) I ended up cutting them in 1 in. strips with my pizza roller, and placing them on a greased cookie sheet. They stretched during the transfer from my counter to the sheet, then looking funky as I smooshed them to fit in my sheet. So I think next time I'll probably press the dough into the pan, or just roll it out on my pizza stone, and cut it while it's on there. Anyways, bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes. They looked funny, but tasted yummy!

I had pictures of all this, but my camera met a sad end last night after being dropped on the floor by a child. Oh well, I wanted a new one anyways ;)