Thursday, April 13, 2006

 

Vacation

We're headed off to the beach for a week, don't expect any updates for a week or two. One week for vacation, one week to recover from the laziness of being home from vacation.

 

Corn Chowder

This Sat. it was all cloudy and cool outside, perfect soup day! Tom and I made plans to make some Corn Chowder. Basically we only ever make two kinds of soup from scratch, Chili, which is Tom's Soup, and Corn Chowder, which is My Soup. The recipe comes from my Stepgrandmother, and my Mom used to make it a lot. It's easy to prepare and keeps well. I do have to admit we never got around to making the soup until Monday and by then it was sunny and warm out, not so great soup weather anymore.

Recipe:

1/2 lb bacon
1 onion
3 medium sized potatoes
1 can corn
1 can creamed corn
1/2 gallon milk
salt and pepper to taste

Chop bacon into small pieces, fry until half cooked, drain fat and add chopped onion. Cook until onion is translucent and bacon is done. Add canned and creamed corn, milk and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for 2-3 hours, watching to not overheat as the bottom of the pan will burn, or it will boil over and make a huge mess.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

 
Last week I was in a bit of a funk, so twice I came home from work and instantly decided to make pudding, my favorite feeling down snack. I'm not sure how pudding came to be so comforting for me, as my Mom never made homemade pudding, I just started making it for myself in college and it's fast become a favorite.

Last week we had Chocolate Blancmang again and Tapioca cream, both recipes from Fanny Farmer. The tapioca recipe uses quick cooking tapioca so it only takes about 15 minutes to cook up, no overnight soaking required. It's also folded into beaten egg whites in the end so you end up with a light fluffy pudding, good served warm or chilled, mmmmm.

Saturday, April 01, 2006

 

Brown Rice Salad


I was sorting through the cabinets the other week to find old food stuffs that needed to get used up. One of the items was some brown rice we've had since we made some rice pilaf with it a couple of years ago. I wanted to do something more interesting with it than just cook it plain. I remembered that good old Alton Brown had done a show on rice with an interesting brown rice recipe so we went with that.

We didn't have high hopes for this recipe, we just figured it'd be good way to use up the rice that we had and besides it had bacon in it. We were pleasantly surprised that this dish was excellent! The method for cooking the rice was to bake in the oven, which resulted in a nice chewy, light rice. Then the bacon, onion and vinegar flavor mixture were a perfect seasoning. We're definitely going to make this again. (Also check out my new dotted bowl!)

Cook-Tom
Time-active 30 min, 45 min baking

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