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I don't mind peeling potatoes.  Sometimes such kitchen activities are actually therapeutic.  They give me a chance to slow down, ponder, compose a little rhyme of some sort, pray...many things happen when I am in my kitchen.  But, with a busy brood, sometimes I need to hustle in my food prep.  Sometimes I don't want to deal with the mess.  Sometimes, I need a quick way to do dinner.  Especially with soccer seaon keeping us so busy. 

The idea struck me as I perused the freezer section of the grocery store one day.  Frozen cubed hash brown potatoes would be an easy work saver in my chicken chorizo burritos.  I picked up a pack, and they worked perfectly.  I just thawed them in the microwave and added them to my mixture.  The kids were thrilled.  The potato peeling is one of the reasons I don't make those so often, and a $1.50 bag of frozen potatoes is much better than a $3.00 bag of potatoes that will need peeling.  Yeah, Mom!

My squash soup base was a hit with the kids, but the one thing they agreed on was that it would be a REALLY good soup with potatoes.  Easy with a bag of frozen potatoes.  I made a yummy German chicken soup this weekend, a recipe I found in searching for some remembered tastes served by a German restaurant that closed a decade ago in my hometown.  The family loved it, and eldest dd suggested it as a great pot pie filling.  The leftovers went into a pot pie sort of recipe the next night, with those frozen potatoes as an add in.  The reviews were great!  Mom had a hit!  When the family is happy and my work is minimized, it's great...works for them, and for me!