Our unseasonably cold May weather [well, it feels that way to me, but maybe this is normal? seasons be all jacked up lately] has led me to once more turn my attention to my slow cooker and to soup. Including today's soup there were four soups that I wish to try to make for myself - chowder, gazpacho, mulligatawny and vichyssoise [okay and maybe a vegetarian French onion]. Today I made chowder. To be specific, it was a corn chowder and vegetarian in nature. It was...not great. It did not thicken properly, I think because I wussed out and tried to make it slightly lower in fat by using table cream in place of whipping cream. Not really to reduce calories, but I find things that are too much like a crock of rich creamery butter to be a bit sickening. I am getting too bold I think in experimenting in cooking.
As mentioned, I used my slow cooker. I love my slow cooker as it means I can do all the dishes before dinner is even served. In addition to corn the chowder was prepared with red-skinned potatoes, orange bell pepper [supposed to be red, but all the red ones looked gross in the shop] and red onions. I went heavy on the seasoning - to counteract the cream - kinda TexMex style with lots of pepper too [I love pepper - I know that's boring]. Then vegetable stock...then lots of waiting...then the cream mixture that was supposed to stiffen things up [and didn't]. The bowls of chowder were festively topped with cheddar and freshly snipped chives. The flavour was actually not bad, but texture all wrong and not like chow-da at all. Boo!
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