My sister always called chicken noodle soup “Magic Soup” when she was little. I still call it that now when I make it for Hayley when she has a cold.

However, if you’re feeling a little crappy, not completely Plague miserable, but just mildly under the weather, my dad’s potato soup is pretty comforting stuff. I didn’t think I felt like making it yesterday but then George decided on pizza for supper so instead of making Koshary like I had planned, I made a batch of soup. Hayley and I both had some with our pizza, Breanna enjoyed a tiny bowl of it, and I’m really looking forward to having it for lunch.

-4 C chicken broth
-1/2 tsp salt
-4 medium potatoes cut in eight pieces each
-4 yellow onions chopped, or 4 leeks chopped
-1/2 tsp marjoram or chevril
-2 tbsp chopped parsley
-1/2 C of heavy cream or half and half (coffee cream)
-1 tbsp margarine or butter

Simmer broth. Add salt, potatoes, and onions. Cover and simmer 20 minutes. Mash. Add seasonings and cream/milk (use less or more depending on how thick you want it). Add margarine.

Serve and try not to eat all of it.

I didn’t have yellow onions or leeks so I chopped up a bit of regular old white onion really fine and used that. Also, I skipped the marjoram and chevril since I had neither and used a bit of garlic powder instead. And I didn’t have cream of any sort so I used milk and it still came out fine.

I mashed it but I wanted it to be really creamy so I used the immersion blender my dad gave me for Christmas and it was perfect.

I love potato soup. So does my itchy throat.