Corn Chowder

Bart used my camera cord for his MP3 player, and so, I can't find it to upload my photos.  But I made corn chowder today.  And it turned out well.  It has no recipe though.  I can give the basics however.

I took about 5 corn cobs and took all the kernels off of them.  I tossed them into a pot of water, about 2 quarts, with a whole onion chopped up, and a handful of my dried garlic.  I boiled the cobs with all the rest of the stuff at a low simmer for about 4-5 hours. 

Once this was done, I removed all the stuff I boiled, luckily I have a strainer in my stockpot, so all I had to do was lift it up.  I remove this and added 2 cups of my frozen bacon, the stuff I use in my other recipes that I've shown here.  Then I chopped up 7 potatoes into small bite sized pieces and boiled them with the stock I made.  I boiled this for about 20 minutes, until the potatoes pretty much didn't exist anymore, but thickened the soup.  Every once in a while you got a bite of potato.  After this I added 2 cans of evaporated milk, a stick of butter that I mashed with a cup of flour(I whisked this in) and the corn that I had removed from the cobs.

After this came to a boil, I tasted it for salt content, added pepper, and added a little more garlic.  This is the point where you season it to your own taste.  It's a bit thin, not a thick stew, depending on how much water you had in the beginning, and how much it simmered down.  I had a lid on it, so it stayed pretty liquid and thin.

I added one more stick of butter, because I like the richness it adds, and then served it with bread.  It was yummy.  The kids liked it, though I added frozen mixed veggies to Ciera's to cool it down.  I am going to brain Bart tomorrow to get my cord back.  Then I will have pictures.