I'm Not a Broth Girl, So My Soup Was a Bit Thin, but Still Pretty Good

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JJ shared his link for Potato Soup with me recently. He wrote his discussion a year ago, but I missed seeing it then. It sounded pretty good and as I had some potatoes left from our last bag, I decided to make us a batch too. Once I got the potatoes out I realized there weren't enough left, so I had my husband pick up another 5lb bag too. We peeled about ten decent sized potatoes which I cooked until they were done. I will interject and say that I must not be that good with reading recipes. I read his when he shared the link, but even though I remembered the basic ingredients I didn't follow it to a T. Lucky for me, it still was good. But... Once the potatoes were tender I scooped some out to start blending. I said that I'm not a broth girl because I use water for most of my soups but I happened to have some left over broth on hand in the fridge, so I added that to the taters in the blender. My husband and I both wanted to have some chunks of taters in the soup, so I kept some out in a different pan. I should have poured some of the water out but while blending them it didn't look like there was enough liquid, so I kept it. Once I added the blended taters with the broth it brought the liquid almost to the top of the pan. I added the sour cream and whisked it in and then also added about ten ounces of shredded cheese and when I ran out of that I put in about six slices of Muenster. I wasn't sure how that would flavor it, but it didn't seem to matter. It wasn't until later when I realized his recipe called for blending the sour cream and cheese right in with the potatoes and broth. It still seemed a bit on the thin side when we were getting ready to eat. But, now a few hours later after it's been cooling off it's thickened a lot more. I served it with polish sausage on the side. i thought about adding that to the soup and it would probably have been fine, but no need to turn off the other eaters. I still have a lot left if anyone wants to come over for a bowl. There's even enough for me to take some to work tomorrow when I eat my lunch. I did a little shoveling of the porch, ramp and around the cars. But I decided to wait until the morning to clean off the cars for church.