Baked Potato Soup

Baked Potato Soup

4 large baker potatoes
2/3 c butter
2/3 c flour
7 c milk
1 1/2 c shredded cheddar cheese
1 c sour cream
6 slices bacon, rough chopped, cooked and drained
3 green onions, sliced
salt & pepper to taste

1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees and bake the potatoes for 1 hour.  When cool enough to handle, peel and dice the cooked potato.  Discard skins (or munch on them like my Assiticant and I did).  Cook your bacon now and let it drain on paper towels while you do the rest.  Resist eating it – or just sneak a bite when no one’s looking.
2) Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat.  Gradually add the flour and whisk.  Don’t let the rue brown.
3) Gradually add the milk to the flour mixture and whisk whisk whisk.  Once this mixture begins to bubble and get thick lower the heat to simmer and toss in the cheddar cheese, potatoes, sour cream, green onions and bacon.  Season to your taste with salt and pepper and serve immediately.

Serves 8

p.s. – it really tastes like a baked potato with all the fixin’s.  Yum!


p.s.s. – you can make this with fat free milk and lowfat or fat free sour cream too!