Finally, something useful! Here's an easy recipe!

Occasionaly, I will say something on here that's a little more useful than the occcasional guffaw.

Case in point.  I cook.  No, I don't mean throw crap in the microwave an nuke it.  I also don't mean slapping meat on the grill and burning it while beating my chest and drinking beer.....

cooking.......

...although I have done the latter quite frequently.....

...I mean actually cook.  You see, my love of cooking has grown throughout the years to a point of where I can either a) actually know what I'm doing, or b) fake it really well.  Regardless, it's become quite the fun hobbyy when I'm not chasing behind my kids, working or otherwise getting into trouble. 

On a side note, if you're a guy and you read my blog, learn to cook.  It's cool.  It's fun, it's a bit of a challenge at times, and with the right instructions, pretty much idiot proof. 

....with the wrong instructions you can blow up your house.  Just ask the hundreds of people that attempt to fry a turkey indoors every year.

...not cooking....know the difference.



 

....but I digress.  There's a reason for today's post is because yesterday I delved into something I don't often get a chance to try my hand with: a chowder.  Granted, chowders aren't something I consider because they sound complicated.  When you have 2 children under age 10, complicated means you're eating alone (and that includes my wife).  Be that as it may there are some things that, while I'm good at them, you rarely see me with the occasion to make them because they just won't be eaten.



This chower I made was not one of them.  It was shrimp & corn chowder.....and it was darned good.



Granted, I can't take the credit on it.  The recipe came from cooks.com recipe search and it's under the name Sherry Monfils.  Sherry, ya done good......

....anyway folks, so that I don't steal Ms. Sherry's work, here's the link to the recipe:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2248,159177-235201,00.html

....but I did, in fact, make some minor changes:





The big-assed beer and monkey have
 nothing to do with the recipe; but they made
cooking more fun.  Consider this my homage to the
youtube show My Drunk Kitchen.





All ingredients - prior to cooking it down
into the actual chowder.

• I used fresh corn.  My in-laws had recently managed to get some fresh corn from a family friend.  EVERYTHING tastes better when it's fresh.   It was a large ziplock bag full.  By the way, I'll note that my wife's family is largely French-Cajun.  If I did not already know how to cook, then my marriage proposal would have fallen upon deaf ears.  99.99% of the guys in Louisiana (where I lived for 10+ years) can cook.  Those that can't are still single.
• If you have to choose between half & half and heavy whipping cream, heavy whipping cream will win all the time in my kitchen.  To me, that's like buying a Harley Davidson motorcycle and then putting a silencer on the muffler.




The final product is OMG good!

• 2 lbs of shrimp is okay.  I think I was closer to 1.75 lbs. 

Y'know, I might be on to something here.