It's a soup if it's more liquid than chunks and I can move my stirring spatula from one side of the pot to the other un-hindered, if not, it's stew!

Potato can work if added early on I find, but isn't needed, all the early ingredients are purely there to dissolve to make a thick base, all the later ones to be occasional chunks of nommy niceness to provide a bit of extra interest n stop the mouth getting bored, and I don't count potato as nommy niceness, more starchy filler to be added to other nicer things, really...
( ..wil, Wed 12 Jan 2011, 16:47, Reply)