I made the Crockpot Ham & Potato Soup from Upstate Ramblings and it was fantastic so I wanted to share.
Of course, a Santini cannot follow a recipe. 😀 My husband says recipes are guidelines. He says the same thing about speed limits, too, but we won't go there.
Instead of peeling and dicing potatoes, I used a standard size bag of frozen diced potatoes. I did the same
thing with the onions, using a half bag of frozen diced onions. Leftover ham would be great but I didn't have any so I used a package of diced ham. I believe you can find the diced ham near the lunch meat at Kroger (it's been a long time since I've had to grocery shop). I used one carton of chicken stock with 1 cup of water an a bouillon cube. Finally, I used half and half instead of heavy whipping cream.
I made Cheddar Bay biscuits using the Red Lobster at home mix (available on Amazon but I think Jon got ours at Sam's Club). The biscuits paired beautifully with the soup since there is cheddar cheese in the soup. I used one 2 cup bag of cheese to cover both the soup and the biscuits.
This soup makes great leftovers and tastes as great a day or two later as it did the first. When I ran out of biscuits, I paired the soup with mini oyster crackers that we had in the pantry.
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Unsplash - Soup image (not the soup referenced in this post)
