Sweet Potato Soup

This morning, I was thinking about my leftovers from Christmas dinner and wondering what I could prepare from them.  I have a lot of fresh sweet (uncooked) sweet potatoes which I wanted to use up.

Ingredients:
two medium sweet potatoes (washed and cut into small chunks)
one medium sized onion cut into small chunks
four cloves of garlic sliced
tbsp or two of butter

put the above ingredients into bottom of crockpot and put on HIGH and
cook for an hour or 90 minutes.  Then pour in

one box of vegetable broth

cook for a few hours (on low)while you go out and have fun!  (my cousin Becky picked me up and
we went to the Festival of Trees at the Power Vista in Lewiston, and then out to lunch.

Upon your return, use your immersion blender to blend the above mixture up.  Then add
1 and a half to 2 cups of ham, cut into small chunks, a can of drained cannelini beans,
a few tbsp of ketchup, one envelope of Sazon Goya, and salt and pepper to taste.  I was concerned that this soup appeared "thin" not thick and chunky like I wanted it to be, so I added a small amount of orzo.

Cook for an additional couple of hours on low while you take a nap.

Its delicious!!!!!  The important thing to remember is how to make the sweet potato base by cooking the sweet potatoes, onion and garlic in the vegetable broth for a few hours and then blending it together.  After that you can add whatever you want!