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====Creamy Potato Soup====
Date added: 2020/10/11

===Ingredients===
  *2lb potato (peel to your liking, and cut in 1cm thick ½ rounds, we use golden)
  *½ pound of sliced bacon (cut into 5mm strips)
  *8 cup chicken stock (we use Better than Bouillon)
  *1 yellow onion (diced)
  *2 carrots (diced)
  *2 stalks celery (diced)
  *½ cup white wine
  *2 TBS flour
  *spices
    *1 tsp smoked paprika
    *1 tsp white pepper (black is fine if you don't have white)
    *//optional// ¼ tsp cayenne (or ½ for very cold weather)
  *½ cup cream

===Method===
  -In a large pot, fry bacon over high heat until crispy, remove bacon reserving fat.
  -Saute onion in bacon fat until it begins to turn translucent, then add carrot and celery and saute until aromatic.
  -Add flour and bacon back to pan, cook briefly until flour barely starts to brown.
  -Increase heat to high, add wine and deglaze pan.
  -Add potatoes, chicken stock, and spices, then simmer ~20 minutes until potatoes are tender.
  -Partially mash potatoes until desired texture, this also thickens the soup.
  -Remove from heat, and stir in cream.  Serve.

===Notes===

Inspired by: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/220127/chef-johns-ham-and-potato-soup/