Halloween Night

Tonight is Halloween and I'm eating some leftover corn chowder from last night. It's basically cooked in bacon grease, so it's super salty, but delicious!

First cook the chopped bacon until almost crispy and then add chopped onions and cook for about 5 more minutes.

Then add about 3 small diced red potatoes and 4 1/2 cups of milk. Bring to almost boiling (don't actually boil it) and then simmer, covered, on low-medium for 15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.

Finally, add the defrosted corn (or the corn you scraped from the cob, you overachiever). Then take 1 1/2 cups of the chunks out with a slotted spoon and puree them in a food processor. When it's smooth, add this back to the soup to thicken it. There should still be a good amount of chunky stuff left in the soup after taking out 1 1/2 cups. Add 1 tablespoon of butter, add salt (you won't need too much) and pepper (about a teaspoon) to taste.

Then savor it! You don't eat this much saturated fat very often, so enjoy!

By the way, trick or treating is 1 hour in and I've already had a little witch (it was her costume, I swear)  walk into our house because she saw Camden standing behind me at the door. She chased her down and was almost in our dining room when she finally caught Cam and gave her lots of pats and snuggles.It was so cute!! The dad looked mortified though!