Get Your Face On Party, Roasted Potato Cream Cheese Soup

I'm hooking up with One Crafty Mommy for Friday Follow!



Ok, I can't believe I'm doing this, but here goes! I'm doing a Get Your Face On Party with The Stories of A to Z!



This is my before picture, yup, me with no makeup. My eyebrows are blond, my eyelashes are blond too!


Here's my little bag of tricks! I love the Cover Girl Lash Blast, it makes my lashes super long. I also love a good coverup and my trusty brush! I use Avon's Glimmer Sticks, gray for eyeliner and tawny for my brows. A little bronzer on my eyelids and cheeks, and I'm good to go!

What do you think? I know, I need my natural blond highlights redone!

Be sure and check out all the other brave blogger's over at The Stories of A to Z and see how the rest of blog-land looks without makeup!

If you know me in real life, you know me as a very chatty person, but for some reason I don't do it on my blog. Well, I'm going to try to change that!

I was looking at my laundry room which is also my pantry and craft room, I was noticing all the projects I need to finish. Some are started, some are just waiting. Sooo, I was wondering. What do you do to get motivated to get projects finished or just started?

I also wanted to take a minute and comment on my followers! Oh my gosh, there are 78 friends out there in blogland! I feel so honored that I have so many friends! Thanks everyone!




I don't usually have potatoes in the house, so when my sister in law gave me a bag of red potatoes, and I thought they would be yummy in a roasted potato soup. Then the more I thought about it the more I thought it would be good with cream cheese in it. My daughter is here visiting and she loves to cook with fresh herbs, so I decided to add the rosemary to the roasted potatoes. Jennie also suggested throwing in the whole garlic cloves too. I had some peppered bacon in the fridge that I needed to use up, so I added it to the soup too! (If you use regular bacon you'll need to add pepper.) This soup turned out sooo yummy! And the house smelled really good too while I was roasting the potatoes!

Roasted Potato Cream Cheese Soup

5 pounds of red potatoes
2 onions, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 head of garlic, peeled
fresh rosemary
1 cube of butter
1/4 cup butter
1 8oz package cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup flour
6 cups or so of milk
1/4 pound bacon
sea salt

Heat oven to 425 degrees.

Wash and chop the potatoes. Do half of them kind of chunky and put on a cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and fresh rosemary and half the garlic cloves. Chop the other half of the potatoes a little smaller. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and fresh rosemary and the rest of the garlic cloves. Roast one cookie sheet at a time for 15 to 20 minutes or until fork tender. Cool.

Saute onion and celery in the 1/4 cup butter. Remove from pan and set aside.

Chop bacon and brown in a frying pan. Drain and set aside.

Put the large chunky roasted potatoes in a large bowl and mash them up just until you don't see any individual pieces.

In a large soup pot melt the butter and the cream cheese. Add the flour and stir for a few minutes. Add 3 cups of the milk and whisk until mixed well. Cook and stir until it just starts to boil and thicken. Add the rest of the milk, the celery and onion mixture, the mashed potatoes, the small roasted potato chunks and the bacon. Stir well. Season with sea salt to taste.