Because I am giving you the low down on how I make this meal two different ways this is going to be very informal instruction, I'm going to tell you how I make this soup it's really very uncomplicated and you'll see that as we get into it.
I always start this meal by washing my potatoes, carrots and celery.
Next I dice the onions, celery and carrots, placing them together in a bowl off to the side. Then I proceed to peel and dice all of my potatoes.
Then I heat 1 TBS of butter over medium high heat - lately I've been using my Drew Barrymore beautiful multi-cooker to sauté and slow cook however before I used my biggest/deepest skillet to heat the butter and sauté my veggies. After the butter is melted and a bit sizzley I add all of the onions, carrots and celery and allow them to get a little bit caramelized and soft.
While those veggies soften up I quickly smash and chop my garlic and throw it into the skillet/multi-cooker with the veggies and give it a good stir.
I then add in the diced potatoes allowing them to sauté a bit. I do stir frequently as potatoes do have a tendency to stick but I just want to get a par-cook on the potatoes. And here is where we are going to break off into two different scenarios for making this potato soup.