Celery and Potato Soup

I ended up with quite a bit of celery in our last Bountiful Basket and I like the canned Cream of Celery soup, so I wanted to try and find a soup recipe.  My stand-by cookbooks let me down, I couldn't find in Betty Crocker, Better Home and Gardens, Rachel Ray and a few others.  Sad, so I took to the internet.  I found a yummy sounding one on SparkRecipes. 

Don't you love our Ducky bowl?

Ingredients

1 tbsp Olive Oil 1 small Onion, chopped  

4 stalks Celery, chopped  

2 medium potato, peeled and diced  

4 garlic, minced  

bay leaf, thyme and parsely  (I used a bay leaf and about 1 tsp Italian Seasoning)

7 cups Water or chicken broth (I used about 4 cups water and 3 cups chicken broth)

Directions

Heat oil over medium heat, add onion and celery, and cook gently, stirring often, for about 10 mins, until very tender. Add 1/2 tsp salt after 5 mins. make sure the vegetables do not colour.
Add potatoes, garlic and herbs. Stir together and add water. Bring to simmer, add salt to taste. Cover and simmer 30 -40 mins, until the vegetables are very tender. Remove from heat.
Use a food processor to puree the soup (I only pureed part of the soup so that I would have some chunks in it. After that, return puree to the pot, stir and heat through. Season with salt and pepper. Garnish with celery sticks in individual bowl (I forgot to do this, but that is okay, it was still really yummy).

Verdict:  YUMMY!  Supposedly this was supposed to have 10 servings in it, but it barely fed one adult and 4 young children.  My husband only got a tiny bowl of what the kids didn't eat since he came home later.  This was warm, filling, nutritious and really tasty.  We will be making this again.