Someone asked that I share the recipe for potato soup. It's kind of easy!
Scrub enough potatoes to half fill your crock pot (peel them if you don't like peels, I leave them on). Add a tablespoon or two of minced garlic, half a large onion, and add enough chicken broth to cover the potatoes. Turn your crock pot on low, cook until potatoes are tender (I turned mine on about 6:45 this morning, got home around 5-ish, was perfectly fine).
Gently mash your potatoes a bit in the crock pot, and you can leave them lumpy or you can follow your initial squashing with an immersion blender to make it smooth (that's what I do). Now add about a cup of shredded cheddar, a couple dollops of herb/garlic cream cheese or cooking creme, stir it in and leave it for 20 minute or so to let it melt. Add enough milk to thin to make it as thick or thin as you want. It will thicken more the next day I find.