Baked Potato Soup

This is my all time favorite soup!  So yummy. Total comfort food:)

4 large baking potatoes
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup flour
6 cups milk
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
4 green onions chopped
12 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
8oz sour cream
11/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

*Have all ingredients ready before you begin cooking, otherwise you will burn the soup.
**I bake the bacon in the oven on a cookie sheet.  It is faster and doesn't splatter everywhere.  You have to check often so you don't burn it.  Often we use turkey bacon but you can use whatever you like best.

Bake potatoes and let them cool.  (I boil them instead and after they cool I cut them long ways and scoop out the pulp, leaving it chunky.)

Melt butter in a large heavy sauce pan over low heat;  add flour a little at a time, stirring until smooth.  Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.

Gradually add 6 cups of milk,  cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture is thickened and bubbly.

Add potato pulp, salt, pepper, and 2 Tbsp green onions, 1/2 cup bacon, and 1 cup cheese.

Heat thoroughly.  Stir in sour cream.  Add extra milk if necessary, I usually add 1 to 2 cups more milk.  Serve with remaining onion, bacon and cheese for garnish.