The blue soup makes you immortal

[muckefuck]

monshu was putting together a grocery list for the weekend Saturday night so that we could hit the store on the way back from brunch and not have to leave the house again. I can't remember now what my source of inspiration was (other than the cold), but I said, "I could make my father's chowder." Since we've tested for ourselves the recommendation that it tastes better the next day, he suggested I fix it on Sunday and serve it on Monday.

He found Pacific cod fillets at the Safeminick's and I picked up a good chunk of highly-seasoned bacon from what I think of as the Eastern European case at Devon. I had the leisure to slow cook the dice so as to render as much fat as possible and really crisp the bits. For the potatoes, I decided to break with tradition and use a colourful mix of baby red, yellow, and purple potatoes that the Old Man had discovered. I don't think I realised just how much juice was in the last of those and I was worried it would stain the broth an unsavory dirty hue, but actually the pale blue colour that resulted was quite lovely, as was the otherwordly turquoise of boiled pieces of potato. The broth tasted a little thin, however, thus my last-minute dash for some half-and-half to sleeken it up.

The cat was being a particular nuisance on Monday. On a whim, I gave him a bacon bit and he gobbled it up, so I may hang onto a few as rewards. (We used to keep cat treats to give him, but he kind of lost interest in them.) One of my few other accomplishments of the day was tying a string around his wubby. "You're hanging his ducktopus?" the GWO asked in amazement. But I was getting tired of running upstairs to retrieve the damn thing when playing our game, so I'm hoping this will eliminate the need for that.

Comments

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Would it be presumptious for me to ask you for an actual recipe -- approximate ingredient amounts, cooking times etc -- for that chowder? It sounds amazing and I want to cook something that staves off the cold.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Shall I simply forward it to your livejournal email address?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Never mind--I forgot that I posted it here already: http://muckefuck.livejournal.com/827889.html?thread=4402161.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Do let me know how it turns out. It's a simple recipe, but I'm always looking for ways to make improvements.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

The one question I have (before preparing it) is whether or not you peel the potatoes. I assume so -- it's chowder -- but I don't really know.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I leave that up to preference. Certainly Dad did, but nowadays monshu and I almost always leave the peels on, whatever it is we're making.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

"The blue soup makes you immortal...."

and might mean you are really Bridget Jones....