The inspiration for this soup was the cookbook, Twelve Months of Monastery Soups and a container of leftover mashed potatoes. Actually, I’m not sure how this happened as leftover-any-kind-of potaoes are not something we generally have to deal with at this house.

But back to the recipe which is potato dumpling soup. But here’s the thing — I took the cookbook to work, planning on reading through it over lunch but then I left it at work. So, no cookbook that night at home. I totally had to wing it. I think this turned out pretty well as I couldn’t really remember what was in the original recipe and sort of had to come up with my own version of potato dumpling soup.

I was planning on changing it a bit anyway (using broth for the water used in the book and well, adding the porcinis) so it probably . . . → Read More: Kind of From a Cookbook: Porcini & Potato Dumpling Soup