Kathleen's Potato Leek Soup

I pretty much stuck to the original recipe except I only had ground thyme so I used 1/4 of a teaspoon and I got some huge leeks from Whole Foods so I omitted the onion since I figured there would be enough onion flavor already. I didn't add the heavy cream at the end either. I was kind of bummed because I don't have an immersion blender and I really wasn't looking forward to Magic Bullet-ing hot soup in small batches...it just sounded like too much work. But the same day I was making carrot cupcakes and I was using my hand mixer and I noticed that one of the attachments was a blender! So my hand mixer saved the day and I blended that soup right up. I didn't realize until way too late that I was probably scratching up my stoneware. But surprisingly, there was not a single scratch when I poured the soup out. Hooray for that! I think the soup tasted alright. I'm much more into tomato based soups so it was...different. I was not my soup's biggest fan. In addition, my soup turned out...ugly. Unphotographable. I even saved some of the green part of the leeks to use as garnish but it just didn't look like food. I'll just leave it at that.