Green Soup

Inspired by my friend Sam who offered me a recipe to spinach soup in which I had only half the ingredients, I went on my own spree and made this for me and the kids last night.  It was a hit!

1 large pealed and diced potato
2 tsp garlic, fresh or powder
1 tsp ground mustard (the powder kind you find in the spice isle lol)
1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley
1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper, if you don't have fresh ground don't worry, just use what you have
2 pealed and sliced carrot
1/4 cup diced red onion or shallot
2 cups fresh baby leaf spinach (must be fresh)
1 cup chopped celery
2 tbs butter or olive oil
3 cups water
1/4 cup sour cream
a blender or soup puree wand

First, put diced potato in a bowl and put all the seasonings on them, stir and let sit while you are doing the other steps

in a pan saute celery and onion until soft, you can sprinkle some sea salt over them to sweat them, don't stir too much, just even them out over the pan and cook on med low heat

while that's cooking pour the water in a pot, heat water, add carrots and seasoned potatoes and cook until soft, then add the sour cream and all other ingredients BUT the spinach, put that in last, stir in and cover for a few minutes until the spinach wilts.

Once this is done you can either blend the entire thing or save half for the blender and half for a more textured soup, if you do that, blend half, then mix in the rest and serve.  This is a great way to get some veggies in for kids and it tastes more like a potato soup!  Enjoy