Bacon and Baked Potato Soup

I managed to make three soups this week and they all had bacon and thyme as part of the ingredients list. Big Guy bought me loads of bacon, but I managed all three recipes with one pound. I am sure my doctor will be thrilled, but I still used the prescribed amount! Sorry for the pun, but so worth the punch!

After successfully making beef and vegetable barley soup along with the split pea soup, I went back to an old favorite. Who does not love bacon and baked potato soup on a cold winter’s day?!

The recipe is simple, but it takes time as you need to cook the bacon and the potatoes first. Once you have that done, it takes less than twenty minutes to sauté the onions and celery along with adding the cheese and half and half to the pot along with some chicken stock and thyme. Add the potatoes and bacon at the end and you have soup in short order!