Cooking with Michy

Ingredients:

1/2 pound ground beef

 1 tbsp. oil

 3/4 c. chopped onion

 3/4 c. shredded carrots

 3/4 c. diced celery

 1 tsp. dried basil

 1 tsp. dried parsley flakes

 3 c. chicken broth

 4 c. peeled and diced potatoes

 1/4 c. butter

 1/4 c. all purpose flour

 2 cups grated cheese

 1 1/2 c. milk

 3/4 tsp. salt

 1/4 tsp. pepper

 1/4 c. sour cream

Directions:

 1. Brown the ground beef in a 3 quart saucepan. Drain and set aside.

 2. In the same saucepan, add 1 T. oil and add onion, shredded carrots, parsley flakes, basil and celery. Saute until tender.

 3. Add the broth, potatoes and beef and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 - 12 minutes or until potatoes are tender.

 4. In small skillet melt butter and add the flour. Cook and stir for 3-5 minutes or until bubbly. Add to the soup and bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low.

 5. Stir in the cheese, milk, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until cheese melts. Remove from heat and blend in sour cream.

Yield: 8 servings

Source: Kim's Krazyness

Review: This hamburger soup it was something else, it tasted amazing with its rich flavour. This soup was probably one of our best soup because of our team work and our determination to get things done. Our team work was what went well with this soup, it really brought us together and showed our greatest strengths. Although you can only go so long be for a down fall, ours was when we cooked the ground beef a little too long causing for there to be a slight burnt taste to the ground beef. The one thing I would change about this recipe is to use and actual chicken broth not a powdered base, as I feel it would bring out more of the rich flavours of the soup. Also I think adding some toasted bread would really bring out the burger taste in the soup and go with the theme of a cheese burger soup. One thing I can take away from this is the fact that I learned how to cook ground beef, even though it got a little burnt it still tasted well. All in all for this to be our last soup it was a good one to end on.