Day 21 - Crappy Corn Chowder

I woke up to snow on the ground. Thus, breakfast was "Caribbean Passion" smoothies, made with mango, strawberry, and peach. For a brief moment, I was whisked away to somewhere tropical and warm, and forgot how cold it was outside.

One for me, and one for Hubs!

Lunch was corn chowder, adapted from a clam & corn chowder recipe. We discovered that when you take out the clams, it tastes incredibly bland. We spiced it up with some black pepper, but it still wasn't all that great.

Crappy Corn Chowder

• 1 chopped onion
• 1/2 cup chopped celery
• 3/4 cup carrot slices
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 small potatoes, diced
• 12oz. can of evaporated milk
• 1 cup veggie broth
• 1/4 tsp thyme
• Black pepper to taste
• 1 cup corn kernels
• 2 tbsp parsley
• 2-3 tbsp cornstarch

Throw it all in a slow cooker for about 8 hours. Eat.
Make it less crappy (and less vegetarian) by adding 12 ounces of canned clams, a bit of chopped ham or bacon, and replace the veggie broth with clam broth.

Dinner was spinach lasagna. I added grated zucchini to flesh it out a bit, and added some mushrooms to make it pretty. It was so good, and so filling!

I think I want to make lasagna nights a weekly thing now. If I'd known lasagna was this easy to make, I'd have been making it for years now!