Potato Soup---Loaded

You're wondering---the soup or the cook, right? Alas, it's the soup. Although I am getting a little serenity help from a Chardonnay wine cube from Tar-Jay.
Anyhow, this is how it's done:

Cut Yukon Gold potatoes into a little bigger than bite-size cubes to the Cruisin by Smokey Robinson, and while those are coming to a boil, and your 4 slices of bacon are in the oven getting crispy, dice purple onion and fresh garlic to the tune of the Commodore's Brick House.

While the potatoes and bacon cook, pause to plug in the ipod and play a little air guitar to Heart's Crazy on You (don't you love that song!), and head to the computer to document your progress.

Here comes Lou Rawls with Save Your Love for Me, and the potatoes are done! Drain them, reserving the water and returning it to the pot while the potatoes cool. It isn't important that they cool, but it is important they don't cook anymore right now. Robert Palmer, in an appropriate moment, is singing Some Like it Hot, while the steam from the potatoes fogs up your glasses, and you then heat oil for the saute. In go the onions, while you dig through your spice box (yes, spice box, because my walk-in pantry is reduced to a footlocker), and OMG WTH is my whole nutmeg???? Oh, whew, found it.

Okay, now that I've calmed down and found the white pepper and celery flakes (Bloody Mary, yeah!) I can enjoy the Temps singing Hey Girl I Like Your Style. Add garlic to the onions on the stove, and go back in time with Tears for Fears: Shout. Thanks, Dan. (got some good tunes from him.)

Now I've put the sauteed onions and garlic in the reserved potato water and back on the burner, and crumbled the garlic. Time to chop green onions and grate some cheese!

Uh oh--while chopping green onions, have to take a break to dance my ass off to Jr Walker's Pucker up Buttercup!

Into the boiling pot go a package of cheese and sour cream potato flakes, plus a pkg of plain potato flakes, a tablespoon of butter, about a cup and a half of chicken broth, and about a cup of whole milk, with a little 1/2 and 1/2 for extra creaminess. Then toss in the grated velveeta, and stir til melted. Grate in some whole nutmeg (trust me), a pinch of cayenne pepper, white pepper and salt to taste, celery flakes, and add the cooked potatoes back to the pot, put the lid on, turn off the stove, and pour yourself a glass of wine and sit down and enjoy Moondance by Van Morrison, knowing you have silky heaven in a bowl waiting for you.

enjoy.
LeAnn