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Title: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: Smokin Don on April 30, 2016, 11:49:46 PM: Apr 30 2016

My wife was off at noon to get her hair done then to eat and see Crystal Gayle sing. It was a cold rainy day so I gave my CI Dutch oven and my chicken fryer an oven re-seasoning. I had some thin sliced ham thawed, enough for two toasted ham & cheese sandwiches so told the wife we would have those for supper.

Some soup would be good too, she likes onion soup and I like potato soup so the cook ruled and I fixed some Potato-Onion soup! I had bought 2 pounds of Baby Dutch gold potatoes. As usual with potato soup I just wing it with no recipe except for in my head.

Recipe
2 pounds Baby Dutch potatoes, diced to desired size
2 ½ cups diced sweet onions
4 Tbs. butter
2 heaping Tbs. flour
About a quart of chicken stock
Salt & pepper to taste
½ teaspoon thyme
¼ cup chopped parsley
¼ to 1/3 cup of cream or half and half
Browned diced bacon and snipped fresh chives for topping

I used my CI chicken fryer to make the soup. I was doing well with the photos but never got a shot of the finished soup in the pot. I think it was about the time I added the half & half then was getting my wife’s sandwich going; she was talking to me and I remember saying to her, “if you want a burnt sandwich keep on talking”! I do not multi-task well while cooking!

The sandwiches were the sautéed ham, two slices of Swiss cheese, on sliced Italian bread and toasted on my 10 inch CI griddle with some olive oil.

I diced up the bacon and started browning it at 4:30 and we ate on time at 6:00PM. It was tasty, we both liked the soup. I think this is the first time I used gold potatoes for potato soup, I thought the Baby Dutch had a very earthy good taste to them.

Browning the bacon
removed to a paper towel lined bowl
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307122_zps2ocri9kb.jpg)

Poured off all but 1 Tbs. bacon grease
added 4 Tbs. butter
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307123_zpsocozhfru.jpg)

2 1/2 cups onions added
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307124_zpsn5b4zddu.jpg)

20 minutes later caramelized
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307125_zpsaznwkcfz.jpg)

stirring in the flour
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307126_zpsey7dhoiw.jpg)

adding the stock
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307127_zpsa0u5ms97.jpg)

After I got all the stock in I added the potatoes, salt
,pepper and simmered 20 minutes. I took about a cup
out and mashed then added back in. When mixed
well I added the thyme and parsley. At the end I
added in the half and half.
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307128_zpskywcvaes.jpg)

Here is a shot of the leftovers my wife had taken out of the pot.
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307132_zpsoz7znkhw.jpg)

My sandwich
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307129_zpstbvkvfyd.jpg)

My soup
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Cast%20Iron%20Cookware/_4307130_zpsu1pg8tn2.jpg)

Smokin Don
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: Tailgating is my game on May 01, 2016, 12:03:17 AM: Don You have never had one bad meal....Wow set me up a place at your table ;) please

As far as multi tasking I have seen pictures of you cooking & drinking beer ;) ;) ;) ;D
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: Pam Gould on May 01, 2016, 04:06:59 AM: Looks real good to me Don..love the lil red and yellow potatoes with the thin skins..I use them a lot. I'll have one of them sammiches too...just sayin. .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: hikerman on May 01, 2016, 08:41:29 AM: Everything looks darn tasty Don! A fine meal for this much less than fine weather!
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: muebe on May 01, 2016, 09:28:28 AM: Wow Don! That looks so good!
Title: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: Pappymn on May 01, 2016, 10:05:17 AM: Fantastic meal
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: N. Ontario Smoker on May 01, 2016, 10:35:53 AM: Don, you're knocking out a lot of tasty looking recipes. This looks like a keeper.......bookmarked.
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: smokeasaurus on May 01, 2016, 12:25:57 PM: Smokin Don couldn't cook a bad meal if he tried 8)
Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: tailfeathers on May 01, 2016, 12:44:02 PM: Stop it already, will ya? Yer killin' me!
Title: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: Smokin J on May 02, 2016, 07:21:49 PM: You are amazing! That looks and sounds great. Hats off.

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Title: Re: Potato-Onion Soup & Ham and Swiss cheese toasted Sandwiches
Post by: africanmeat on May 03, 2016, 05:01:15 AM: wow

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