Bacon chowder

I realized this past week, after reading some of my old blog posts, that I used to write about more than just baby stuff. Maybe because it was a family blog, maybe because I didn't have any babies yet (Elijah was still in my belly then) but whatever the reason, I wrote about more. I thought at the time that it was boring, and maybe it WAS to those who read it, but I actually enjoy reading back on those posts, seeing what I was doing then, and remembering more to Matt's and my life together than babies.

So, here is a completely un-baby post. It's my favourite soup recipe right now, but that'll change in a few weeks, I'm sure. I love soups! It's the one thing I'm really good at cooking for dinner. For some reason, I have a knack for picking out a good recipe. I'm hoping to try a cream of carrot recipe this week. We'll see.

In the meantime, Bacon Chowder!

Ingredients:

• 1 package of bacon (or 10 slices)


• diced celery


• diced onion


• 1 can sliced or diced potatoes


• 1 can cream of mushroom soup


•  1 can cream corn


• 2 packages of powdered chicken bouillon


• 2 1/2 c. milk

Directions: 

• In a soup pot, cook bacon until crisp. Remove from pot, but leave grease in. Add celery and onion to pot and cook through. Remove celery and onion from pot and drain the grease.
  


• Put bacon, celery and onion back in pot and add remaining ingredients. Heat through.
  

Aaaand now my font is a smaller size. NO clue how that happened! I've been using Wordpress for months, and I've never had this problem, nor have I ever tried to resize the font, and now I realize that I don't know how. Oh well. Wonky post coming right up.

But yeah! That's the soup. It's super easy, and really tasty, especially on a cool autumn day like today.

And a funny story to go with the soup! I got the recipe from my MIL, who has been making it for years. She was introduced to it as a newly-married woman, when she, dad, and dad's parents went to a friend's for dinner, and the friend made this soup. Mom wanted the recipe, and the woman had written it out already for Matt's grandma, so mom said she'd just get the recipe from Grandma G. Well, when Grandma G wrote out this recipe, what did she write as the title? Grandma G's Bacon Chowder! I laugh to myself every time I think about this story. Grandma G. doesn't seem to have any recollection of this highly amusing recipe-swap, and whenever the soup is mentioned, she says, "Oh yeah, I gave you that recipe," or something along those lines. Hahaha...

Today I decided to sign up for AllRecipes.com so that I could bookmark recipes I want to try later. Maybe it'll motivate me to make dinner more often!

Matt goes back to work tomorrow (I won't mention babies much, I promise!) and while I'm a little anxious about it, I'm also looking forward to life becoming more normal. It's like when we were on our honeymoon, and having a GREAT time, but were excited to go home and just live life together. I'm feeling that excitement, believe it or not. I want life to get easier, I know it WILL get easier with two babies, and I want to get to that point.

So one thing I've decided to do, to discipline myself to getting things done regardless of the busy-ness that is having two kids now, I've decided to have a task a day that I MUST get done. It isn't anything huge, it might be making dinner (which I don't usually do...) or folding 5 loads of laundry (tomorrow's task.) I'll have to report on how well this actually goes, especially once we've had a bad day.

Gotta go, Abby is spitting up. SAD!