Chicken Corn Chowder

My favorite website is All Recipes . com. Very good resource for recipes. Well I found one today that was Corn chowder. I had some left over heavy cream from a previous squash soup, so I wanted to use this in a chowder.

5 star recipe! This was very delicious and indistinguishable from the restaurant. When I say restaurant, I mean Cosi which also has very good Corn chowder on Mondays. This is just as good, very easy to make and cheap.

INGREDIENTS

* 2 1/2 cups milk
* 1 (14.75 ounce) can cream-style corn
* 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
* 1 3/4 cups frozen corn
* 1 cup frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
* 1 cup cubed fully cooked ham
* 1 large onion, chopped
* 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
* 2 teaspoons dried parsley flakes
* salt and pepper to taste

DIRECTIONS

1. In a slow cooker, combine all ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.

My changes:
2 pounds of chicken breast and extra corn. I really used 2 cups of fat free milk and half cup of heavy cream. Evens the fat out. Super fantastic, you just plop them all together and put on low for 6 hours or high for 4, but I like low. I didn't even use salt.



http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooked-corn-chowder/Detail.aspx

Black popcorn

This is not a recipe. I love stove top popcorn. 1.5 cup of raw popcorn and 3 tablespoon of oil (olive is OK, Canola better, coconut delicious).

I went to the fancy rich people kitchen store and saw black popcorn!

(You thought I was going to say black people didn't you.)



It was really called Black Jewel. Hull less popcorn, whatever that means. I have always thought that meant no more popcorn stuck between my teeth. No such thing.

First off, it pops white. Black popped popcorn would indicate some sort of vile mold or disease. But popped, they are the tiniest, puniest, saddest popcorns I have ever seen. Because they pop white, but still have a hint of black, they look burnt.

Terrible! Stay away and return it to the store if you receive this for Christmas.