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Welcome to Cancel Your Reservation. This is a collection of recipes that I have cooked or baked and want to share with you.

First - let me say, I do not like to cook. I don't get a relaxing feeling while chopping veggies, or strolling the aisles of the grocery store. I would much rather make a dinner reservation and eat out with my husband and enjoy being waited on, and relaxing at the end of the day. But lets be real, eating out all the time gets expensive, and its not the best for the waistline or our health, even though there are many healthy alternatives available now when eating out.

So, with that being said, I get in the kitchen after work and cook. I don't like it, I'd much rather clean up and do dishes after the meal than prepare the meal. The kitchen isn't my favorite room of the house. To give you some background, I burn things when I am cooking. ALOT. I can't tell you how many times I have set the fire alarm off in my house. I also burn myself while cooking, not on purpose, but I'm clumsy in the kitchen - and messy. So, if you are like me, and like to eat out, more than you like to cook, please read over these recipes and try them! Just get in your kitchen - even if it is a few nights a week. The recipes are easy to prepare, and they taste good! They just might make you cancel your reservation - and eat in! Not all of the time of course, who are we kidding :) - but more often.

Just a note, I did not come up with these recipes - no - I don't have that gift that some people are blessed with that allows them to come up with amazing recipes and flavors that compliment each other. Sources for the recipes will be noted.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Corn Chowder With Chipotle

This recipe is from The Pioneer Woman Cooks  - Ree Drummond. If you haven't checked out her blog/website or read her cook book - get on it! She has delicious recipes that are all crowd pleasers - and I love her photography blog too. This Corn Chowder With Chipotle is sooo good. The flavors of bacon, sweet corn and the smokiness of the chipotle peppers with a kick go together perfectly. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
2 slices of bacon cut into 1/2 inch pieces or smaller
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 whole yellow onion diced
5 ears corn, shucked (about 4 cups)
2 whole chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, finely diced
1 whole 4 ounce can diced green chilies
32 ounces fluid low sodium chicken broth
1 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoons kosher salt (more to taste)
3 tablespoons cornmeal or masa
1/4 cups water

Carefully slice the corn kernels off the cob. Set aside. Add bacon pieces to a pot or dutch oven over medium heat. Cook for a couple of minutes. Throw in diced onion and stir, cooking the onion for 3 to 4 minutes. Add butter and melt. Add corn. Stir and cook for one minute. Add both kinds of chilies and stir. Pour in chicken broth and cream. Add salt. Stir and bring to a boil. Reduce to low heat. Combine cornmeal (or masa) with water. Stir to combine, then pour into the chowder. Cover and cook for 15 minutes over low heat. If chowder needs more thickening, add another tablespoon or cornmeal mixed with water. Cook for another ten minutes. Serve crusty sourdough bread or in a bread bowl.

Corn Chowder With Chipotle 
(this is the last of the cell phone pics - yay!)
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