I made a soup from scratch (except for the chicken broth from a tetrapak), using potatoes and spinach.  I sweated onions and celery first then added a whole farmer's sausage, diced, and then put them all in a big pot with the taters and simmered with 2 bay leaves, salt and pepper, white wine and liquid smoke.  I also added 2 packages of frozen spinach.  I think next time I'll just use one.  It had a nice flavour but a little much green stuff.