(Chilli) Chowder

So after having to make carrot soup three times as Éowyn has been eating it non stop for two days, I decided to try and come up with something different. That doesn't contain carrots......

So I fried up some leeks and bits of bacon (I managed to find some proper British bacon in the freezer, but I guess those lardon thingies they have over here would do just as well), added a load of chicken stock, put in a couple of chopped spuds and peppers (Éowyn likes chopping peppers for some reason so that bit was very easy for me), salt & pepper and a few sneaky chilli flakes when no one was looking. Left it to boil along merrily for 20 minutes or so, then added a tin of sweetcorn to heat through and there you go.

Bluddy loverly, even if I do say so myself......

Potatocornia.....

Gosh, haven't posted for nearly a year, how remiss of me. Not that I haven't been cooking, of course, just that being lazy I make the same stuff. A lot......

Anyway, this is a bit of an experiment that turned out rather well. Chop an onion and fry it, add some lardons. These are basically bits of bacon that come ready chopped up into small strips here and it makes life very easy.

Another thing that makes life easy are the pre cooked, pre diced potatoes you can get vacuum packed. So open a packet of those and chuck it in the pan. Along with some sweetcorn, tinned or frozen will do nicely. Then all you have to do is stir in some thick cream or crème fraîche and add lots of black pepper, the lardons are usually salty enough so you don't have to add more. And if you're me, you add some dried chilli flakes too.....

Et voilà:

Aliénor came up with the title. It's one of her favourites.......