Potato Soup

What do you do when you don't want to go to the store, but you want to use up potatoes that are going bad and other scrapings of the cupboard? You make soup! I was going between a simplistic recipe that was basically "boil potatoes in water, then add milk, salt, and pepper. Heat until warm" and a much more involved potato soup recipe that involved baking the potatoes first, then adding them into the soup last....Confusing. Basically, I started out dicing all the potatoes I wanted to use, a half an onion, one pork sausage, and some garlic. I sauteed the onion and garlic in butter. When they were "limp"/clearish, I added in a cup or so of water and all of the potatoes. I boiled them for maybe......10 minutes, then added in almost 2 cups of milk and the sausage (pre-cooked). That didn't seem to be thickening, so I mixed up some water/flour slurry and added that. Kept it on the heat, stirring it and not letting it boil. I ended up adding some more of the flour slurry, and it eventually thickened up. For taste, I added garlic salt and.....some random things. A little dry mustard, paprika. Maybe some basil and parsley. What really was a good idea that I added was a little dill.

The dill taste really stood out in the end, I liked what it did. Maybe because I heated it too long trying to get the soup to thicken, but the meat seemed to have very little taste. I wish that it had more flavor to it. I liked the taste it added to the soup, but I wished the chunks had more. My mother gave me a thought--don't start out with water, but a broth! That would probably add a lot of overall flavor. Bacon would also go well in this. ^^ And maybe some celery? Oh! I served it with some grated cheese on top. Might be fun to stir in a cup or so before serving.