Recipe #54: fish chowder

This week has been soup week chez nous, thanks to some minor but pesky dental misadventures with Mr. Rubbishy, and we all wish him a speedy recovery!

In the meantime, the challenge has been to create new and healthful soups daily, and stretch my creative rubbishy cookery. I have embraced the challenge!

Unfortunately, I’ve been so busy focusing on the matters at hand that I didn’t even think about this blog, until after I’d already cooked and we’d eaten this dish, which was unexpectedly easy and fabulous. A perfect recipe for the blog—but no photos! What to do?

Get out the old art supplies and, in the spirit of the original Moosewood cookbook series, do some rubbishy drawings!

Ingredients:


In case my drawing and handwriting isn’t exactly the hyperrealism style of artistry you may have expected from this blog, the ingredients are:

- 1-2 Tablespoons butter 

- 1 onion chopped 

- 2 carrots diced

- 2 potatoes peeled and diced

- 2 fresh bay leaves

- 1-2 teaspoons dried thyme 

- about half a pound of haddock filets 

- whole milk

- salt and pepper 

- also water, not pictured above

Directions:

- melt the butter in a soup pot on medium high heat 

- add chopped onion and sauté until translucent and softened 

- add diced potatoes and carrots and sauté a few minutes 

- add water to cover, bay leaves, thyme, salt and pepper, bring to a boil, then simmer until the vegetables are soft, adding water if necessary to keep covered 

- add fish, also diced or chopped into bite sized pieces, and enough milk to cover everything and simmer until the fish is cooked through, the flavours have mingled, and the stock has reduced and become creamy

Salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!

Here is an extra rubbishy drawing of the finished bowl of steaming hot comforting healing chowder, drawn on the back of a piece of junk mail, which artistically shows through the paper:



Gosh that was fun! I may do more rubbishy drawing recipes!

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