Cold Snap

Last week was really cold (minus 30 cold)...even the herd of elk near our house were huddled up.  But we survived it with the help of some good soup and hot springs to warm us up.

I've been wanting to make this corn chowder ever since my friend Chloe made it for us for lunch one day a little while ago.  It's sooo good, and really easy to make. And at least one out of two liked it!  

Casey chowin' down on mama's bowl of corn chowder.  (Apparently Dada's was too hot, Liam's was too cold, but Mama's was juuuust right.)

And, I'm not gonna lie, there really isn't a better way to spend a minus 30 day than sitting in the hot springs...we're way too lucky to live here!

Here's the recipe for the soup.  It doesn't make a huge pot, so if you want left overs or have lots of hungry mouths to feed, you might want to double it up.

Corn Chowder

Ingredients:

1 green pepper diced

1 onion diced (I used 3 cloves of garlic instead)

1 cup cubed potato

3 cups frozen corn

2 cups of chicken broth

1 cup of cream or milk

1 Tbsp flour

2-3 strips of bacon cooked and chopped

salt and pepper to taste

How To:

In a pot, cook pepper and onion/garlic until done.  Add chicken broth and potato and bring to boil.  Simmer 10 minutes.  Add corn and simmer 10 minutes.  Whisk flour and milk together then stir into soup and simmer a couple minutes. Stir in cooked bacon at the end.

Keep warm! :)