Potato soup

With grateful acknowledgment to Rombauer & Becker:

• Start frying 6 strips bacon in a large saucepan
• Peel & chop 2 large russets
• Eat 1 slice bacon, set the rest aside to drain
• Drop the diced 1/2 onion leftover from Saturday in the bacon grease
• Turn on fan
• Add chopped potatoes
• Saute a while
• Add water and chicken stock to cover
• simmersimmersimmer
• Check tenderness; add more stock; have another slice of bacon; simmer some more
• Turn off fan
• Check tenderness; rejoice
• Spoon mushy potatoes into blender
• Pour in some half and half
• Blend
• Notice an odd burning smell from the blender; wonder vaguely if there's someone out there who still does small appliance repair; decide to think about it another day
• Add some more half and half
• Blend
• Pour back into the saucepan & bring back to temperature
• Have another half slice of bacon; get a grip and crumble the rest into the soup
• Add salt, pepper, and seasoned salt to taste
• Dish up a bowl of potato soup
• Gloat over its excellence
• Pour a glass of wine and have another bowl of soup
• Tell the internet what you had for dinner
  
• Go to bed happy.

Today's earrings: hands, basketweave spoons

Bedtime reading: Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger