You're ousted, chili! This week's cooking project offers potatoey goodness in every bite!
I found a healthy recipe for ham and potato chowder from a fitness forum today. Said recipe yielded 6 servings—which, quite naturally, is no match for our 16-quart stockpot. We're all about quantity here in the Phillips household—why, just look at those stacks of dirty laundry; impressive, no?
We tripled the recipe and set out for a trip to the local Super Wal-Mart. On a Sunday afternoon. Harrowing experience.
- Swarms of people with really bad shopping cart etiquette!
- Hundreds of thousands of screaming kids with twice as many moody parents!
- Social butterflies of the Produce Section variety abound!
What began as an organized trip became chaos. Utter and complete. There at the end, we had more of a "grab it and run" attitude that was lacking from our earlier, more scientific, approach.
We arrived at the checkout and greedily reached for the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups so that we might know a semblance peace again. Life looked pretty bleak. We returned home feeling beaten and low, but hungry just the same.
We put away the groceries that we wouldn't need for the chowder and began cutting the vegetables.
Boy!
There's nothing that works off that anxiety like a butcher knife and a chopping project!
I commented that policeman-neighbor-guy probably thought we were psycho knife wielders by the sound of the blades hitting the cutting boards. Miles replied, deadpan, "Or, that we cook."
Anyway, the chowder is done, it's delicious, it's low cal—one might even say it was worth the trouble...but the straight jackets look really uncomfortable.
