Corn Chowder

I admit it, I love convenience foods. Junk food, fast food, takeout, airplane food, school cafeteria food, and yes, even hospital food. Could be because I grew up with a mom who had zero interest in cooking. Zilch. But she knew where to go for the best restaurants and she loves fast food. She had four staples in her home cooking repertoire, broiled rib steaks, frozen cream spinach, baked potatoes and cream of corn soup. The kind of soup where you buy two cans of creamed corn and just add milk. Heat and stir. We loved it. My kids love it, she still makes it for them. And especially my Dad loved it. So in his honor and because Pops is Tops at I Heart Cooking Clubs, I made a corn soup that I know he would have loved. It's from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. It even uses low-fat milk, and just a bit of butter.

We loved it!

What's not to love? It's got corn, potatoes, butter and milk! 

Chives and thyme, fresh from the garden.

When I served it, I sprinkled a little bit of crumbled bacon on top!

Corn Chowder
Source: Jamie's Food Revolution by Jamie Oliver
adapted by There's Always Thyme to Cook
Printable Recipe

1 celery stalk
1 medium onion
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
3 cups 1% milk
1 medium Yukon Gold potato, peeled and cut into little cubes (I shredded the potatoes, instead of cubes)
2 cups frozen corn (or fresh, scraping the cob to get all the corn flavor in the chowder!)
1/4 cup chopped fresh chives and/or parsley (optional)
2-3 slices cooked bacon, crumbled (optional)
Pull the leaves from the celery stalks and set them aside. Chop your celery and onion.

Heat the butter in a medium saucepan over a medium heat. Add the celery (not the leaves), onion, and thyme. Stir until the vegetables start to brown.

Sprinkle the flour over the veggies and stir for a few more minutes. Pour in the milk, add the potato and bring to a boil, stirring the whole time so the soup doesn’t stick to the pot. Cook until the potatoes are tender, but not mushy; about 10 minutes or so.

Chop the celery leaves, trim the ends off the scallions and slice them thinly. When the potatoes are tender, stir in the corn and celery leaves. Bring the soup back to the boil, then serve. Sprinkle with chives, and you can garnish with crumbled bacon, too, if you like.

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