Ham And Potato Soup

This is 'soup-er' yummy! I can pretty much eat all of it myself.

Ingredients
3 1/2 cups peeled and diced potatoes
1/3 cup diced celery
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
3/4 cup diced cooked ham
3 1/4 cups water
2 tablespoons chicken bouillon granules
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1 teaspoon ground white or black pepper, or to taste
5 tablespoons butter
5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups milk

Directions
Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a stockpot. Bring to a boil, then cook over medium heat until potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in the chicken bouillon, salt and pepper.
In a separate saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Whisk in flour with a fork, and cook, stirring constantly until thick, about 1 minute. Slowly stir in milk as not to allow lumps to form until all of the milk has been added. Continue stirring over medium-low heat until thick, 4 to 5 minutes.
Stir the milk mixture into the stockpot, and cook soup until heated through. Serve immediately.

Enchilada Soup

This recipe is impressive nutritionally and it tastes soooo good! I might also add that it's very easy because you boil everything in 1 big pot all together! Don't worry about the ingredients. You blend it all together so the kids and even the picky husband have no idea what you put into this thing. Rich swears he doesn't like squash but it's in here and he has no idea :)

2 Qts. water
1/2 butternut squash with outside peeled off
1 Tbsp. chicken bouillon
2-3 chicken breasts
1 can chopped green chili's
1 large onion chopped
5 medium potatoes, washed and cubed
1 sweet red pepper ( don't leave this out)
2 cloves garlic
1 t salt
1 1/2 tsp cumin
2 Tbsp Taco seasoning ( or 1 Tbsp chili powder)
2 cans white beans
1 c. sour cream

Cook everything except beans and sour cream in 1 big pot until veggies are tender.
Pull out the chicken when done and cube or shred
Dump the pot into your blender and blend then dump back into your pot. You could blend your beans to disguise them but I don't I add them after I've blended.
Add chicken, beans and sour cream.
Serve.