Excellent easy recipe! Make 4 potatoes tonight and decided to mash them up instead and make mashed potatoes. I also added ground tumeric and curry powder for a twist on an old classic.

Reviewed On: Nov. 11, 2009

I used 5 pieces of boneless skineless chicken breast and cut up the pieces and cooked it that way to speed up the cooking. I also added in 3 cloves of garlic (in my house, every loves garlic) instead of adding the garlic powder. I did add in onion powder because I had no onions on hand. I also omitted the olives as we had none available. To the tomato sauce, I added a little splenda to help sweeten it up a little. I also added my rice right to the pan to help let the rice soak in all of the tomato sauce. Easy recipe and very much of what a homemade hearty meal should be.

Reviewed On: Nov. 11, 2009

This was a really nice Cheesey potato soup recipe! Easy to make and loved that you can also add to the recipe. Well I added onion powder and whole garlic cloves to the soup (just added the garlic cloves to the potatoes while boiling) and omitted the cornstarch and milk step as other people have suggested since the soup already becomes think due to all the starch in the potatoes. Also this makes great mashed potatoes the next day if you don't want to thin it out as soup. Also to make this more of a meal, I added some chunks of cooked turkey. I also ended up using shredded cheese because I did not have any blocked cheese. The cheese I used wasn't very salty tasting so I did end up adding a little bit of salt to the recipe, but only after I tasted it when everything was put together. This was gone in 2 days, thanks for sharing a delicious recipe!

Reviewed On: Nov. 8, 2009