Almost

Well dinner is over and the soup was very good. Everyone ate it and everyone but Cindy complimented it. Cindy had a few complaints like... It looks odd! Then why is it kind of grainy ? The rest of the family all agree that she should be ignored as she was just in a bad mood. I did put some thought into it and here is what I decided. It looked odd because the beef stock and cheddar cheese changed the color from white to an orangish brown. The color was a little odd but the flavor was enhanced dramatically so perhaps I should serve it next time with a blindfold . As for the graininess,it had to be the sausage as I used bulk sausage( to mimic the ground beef)nothing else was grainy which did kind of leave the sausage standing out.Perhaps since she wasn't expecting sausage like everyone else who watched me make it, it shocked her. I have decided that in the future I will omit all ground meat and add a couple pounds of bacon instead.
All in all I will call it a success. I as I do not have many soups that everyone will even eat at all. Generally though our family is a meat and potato ( or meat and rice) family. We also all greatly enjoy most sea food, even sushi. but since lent starts in eighteen days we will save some of our awesome seafood dinners for then. Now off to figure out what is for Sunday dinner. I have three pounds of IQF chicken breasts thawing.