~corn chowder recipe~

Now for today's recipe:

A delicious, filling soup on a cold wintry day!

Hearty corn chowder

Ingredients:

~1 pkg bacon cut into small pieces

~3/4 cup flour

~1 onion finely diced

~3 large potatoes diced

~3 cups corn

~5 cups milk

~2 cups water OR chicken broth(recommend the broth if you are not using vegeta. I used water and vegeta)

~2 tbs vegeta

~1 tsp garlic powder

~1 tsp pepper

~3/4 tbs parsley

~pinch of thyme

~salt to taste (if using vegeta you may not need salt. I didn't use any as vegeta is salty)

Method:

Fry your bacon in a large nonstick pot and when the bacon is almost done add the onions and fry until bacon is nice and crispy. Next mix in the flour an add the milk slowly and blending well. Next add all the other ingredients and mix well. Bring to a boil careful not to burn the bottom. Once boiling reduce the heat and simmer covered and often giving it all a good stir until the potatoes and corn are nice and tender. Serve with fresh bread if desired. Enjoy!

today's "bit of life" entry and Hungarian goulash soup recipe

For those of you who have access... today's "bit of life" post can be found by clicking HERE

And today recipe is below:

Hungarian Goulash soup

This soup is very flavourful and my kids enjoyed it very much.

Ingredients:

2 tbs oil

1 diced onion

1 1/2 pounds cubed beef (stew meat)

water~enough to fill a medium sized pot

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp pepper

2 tsp salt

1 tbs parsley flakes

3 tbs vegeta seasoning

5 carrots chopped

1 red pepper chopped

4 cubed potatoes

Method:

Fry the onions in the oil then add all other ingredients minus the potatoes. Cook on low until meat in tender then add potatoes and keep cooking until potatoes are done.

~Let it snow! and hen soup recipe~

And now for the recipe of the day....

A repost of an old post:) You'll notice this especially in the picture where Austin is in the highchair! He was so little back when I originally wrote this post! Now he's a strapping 5 year old!!:):) And 2 little sisters have used that same highchair since! Where does the time go? Things like this always remind me...quite painfully actually...to make better use of the time I have with them...not just merely surviving each day.

My old post on Hungarian Hen soup

My mom gave us some free range, organic hens amongst other things from her farm. It makes the BEST soup!! I made a big pot the other day and then I took out some of the carrots and celery and just a little of the broth and blended it up in the blender for baby girl. She really enjoyed it!














So did my 2 year old:) He asked for seconds then thirds!

In Hungary they don't tend to measure ingredients. A good cook learns to make everything by sight and taste testing. So when my mom taught me how to cook she taught me the same way.

Here is how to make it:


Hen soup:


*A big hen or 2 small ones cleaned and cut up in pieces.
*Lots of carrots
*Lots of celery
*An onion(whole)
*A red pepper cut in half
* Garlic, salt, and Vegeta to taste( an Italian seasoning mix bought at the grocery store that resembles the seasoning mix they use in Hungary)


Throw the meat in the pot with water filled to the top about 3/4 full. Bring it to a boil and let it boil on high for a few minutes while you skim off the foam that forms on the top of the soup. Then add everything else and let it come back to a boil at which point reduce the heat and simmer covered for a about two and a half hours. Serve hot with cooked soup noodles mixed in.

This is a really yummy, richly flavourful soup!!