I do love potato soup, but my go-to soup is creamy tomato with roasted red peppers. I prefer adding some Pepper Jack cheese, but a mix of cheddar and Monterey Jack will do. And, then topped off with some crumbled up Ritz, or Club, crackers. Btw...in my opinion, clams ruin a perfectly good potato soup .

I am Vegan, just look into it plenty of very tasty heartwarming food still available. I would recommend 'forks over knives' but many major chains are getting cool with this now!

Grilled cheese, Tomato soup. `Nuff said

Gumbo! ...
Shrimp, sausage, chicken gumbo
One average large pot of gumbo

1. Mushrooms (1 cup sliced)
2. Celery (3 cups chopped)
3. Green onions (1 cup chopped)
4. Purple onions (1 cup chopped)
5. Yellow onions (2 cup chopped)
6. Garlic (1 tablspoon crushed)
7. Any jar of gumbo base (roux) mix (3/4 jar)
8. Kitchen Bouquet Browning and seasoning sauce (2 tablespoons)
9. Zaterains pure ground file (1 tablespoon). Sprinkle and stir in.
10. Zaterains crab/shrimp season oil. (5 drops). To much hurts the gumbo.
11. Zaterains seasoning salt (1/2 tablespoon), (cautiously add to taste)
12. (Optional) Hickory salt, (pinch) for flavor
13. Your favorite spicey sausage (3 cups sliced)
14. (Pre grilled cooked) smoked chicken. Dark meat works better. (3 cups 3/4"Chunks)
15. Uncooked medium and large shrimp (3 pounds)
16. Okra (1/2 cup)
17. 1 3/4 gallons of water.

In a Large pot:

1. Boil 1 3/4 gallons water, add season oil.
2. Stur in 3/4 jar of gumbo base (roux).
   (Soften roux jar in hot water to help stir the flour and oil together before stirring in to boiling water.)
3. Add season salt and (optional - hickory salt)
4. Add browning sauce
5. Add sausage, cook for 10 mins.
6. Add garlic and all the vegetables and low cook down for 15 minutes. It may seem like a lot of vegetables, but it ain't.
7. Add chicken and low cook for 10 mins.
8. Add shrimp and low cook for 10 minutes.
9. Add more season salt to taste.
10. Add ground file (fe-lay) very low cook.
11. Add extra gumbo base (roux) and browning sauce as needed for thickening and color. Add small amount of fe-lay if needed for thickening and taste if needed. Your looking for a dark, lightly thick gumbo juice.

Its a little play it by ear on this. I just start throwing it all together with no real recipe directions...lol. i think this might be a good start and you can fine tune as you go.

This is suppose to be a shrimp gumbo with a little sausage and chicken to add substance and character... lol.

My ex-wife made this one thing that was a family recipe that I don't have, but I really miss. She called it "Mellouheah" or some such(Sephardic Jewish/Israeli/Egyptian family) and it was just basically chicken, garlic and spinach in a soup. She used to make a giant pot of it and we never froze any. I can eat it every meal for at least 6 days. Spinach is my favorite vegetable and garlic may be second.

I think I am going to try a modification of this recipe I just found online over the weekend. In hers, the chicken was chunks and there was no rice, so I'm going to do that but try this spice blend
[foodandwine.com]

Red and/or white chili, no real recipe, I just look it up and wing it...Mississippi crockpot potroast (sear both sides of roast, put in crockpot, one stick of butter on top, one packet onion soup mix, one packet ranch dressing mix and about 6-8 pepperoncinis. Low for 6-8 hrs. (You can add potatoes I suppose and a veggie. I dont, because my kids are snobby) )

I think that in the cold weather there is nothing better than a bowl of hot soup that contains everything but the kitchen sink. I recall the piping hot vapor and the aroma of freshly cooked vegetables that wafted from a bowl of soup on a cold winter day.

All my best recipes take all day to prepare. I'm the only one crazy enough to put that
kind of time in.

I love potato soup and made some myself last weekend. I also make an excellent beef vegetable stew too. I have some really good recipes for crop pot chicken noodle soup, chicken gnocchi soup, and corn chowder.

sounds really nice yum yum

Tomato Bisque.

Two cans diced tomatoes, juice included.
A cup of milk or 1/2 and 1/2.
Thyme, pepper, oregano, and maple syrup to taste.

I boil it all together. Smashing the tomatoes even more.

Yum! With a grilled cheese.

Or Easy Stroganoff.

Pound of ground beef, cooked with pepper, onions, and mushrooms.
Can of cream of mushroom soup.
One square cream cheese.
One pound cooked pasta (I like corkscrews).

Mix all together, until melted.

Yum!

Mac and cheese

My winter warmer dish has got to be Sausage and mash with onion gravy, traditional British dish served in mass quantities until you can't move and are forced to sleep.

I made spaghetti sauce over the weekend. Use for french bread pizza.