just in case you were wondering

bacon potato corn chowder

days off mean crockpot soup time.
this monday, to combat the unexpected snow, I made a batch of bacon, potato, corn chowder that is already almost gone. DAG!

go to the grocery store.

you will need about six or so medium sized potatos. since the skin is really where the nutrients are, i always get red or yellow potatos so i can leave the skin on.
chop those thangs up into small pieces. but not too small.


while you are chopping, maybe you want to make the bacon at the same time. maybe you like to tackle one thing at a time, but i like to do as many things as i can at the same time until my brain explodes.


you will need to taste test the bacon. if your quality control boyfriend is not home to do it, you will have to do it yourself. BUMMER. maybe you should get the dogs to try it too, make sure it is not poisoned.


after potatos are chopped, make sure you rinse em. get all that starch out. gah-ross.


chop up the bacon. chop up an onion. assemble the spices: some parsley, some pepper, three to four chicken boullion cubes, half a stick of butter.


put it all in the crockpot.


put the lid on. put it on high. cook it until the potatos are soft. this means you have a few hours to do as many other things as humanly possible.


maybe now is the time to go through all the boxes you got out of your moms attic, they are filled with treasures and relics of your adolsecence. things like horrible clothes, toys, notes from middle school friends, bizarre jewelery, rainbow yamacas, earthworm jim action figures, he-man stamps, broken speakers, bouncy balls that have been destroyed by time and summer attic heat, and unicorn wallets.


maybe there are some awesome cassette tapes in there too. ones you loved in highschool so much that you put em in a box and forgot about em forever.


maybe now could be the time to give all the dogs a bath? who knows?! do you even have dogs?


if you do have dogs, be sure to torture them as much as possible when you bathe them, they secretly love it.


guess what? its been three hours! your potatos are soft! dump in a can of evaporated milk and a package of frozen corn, stir it up. put the crockpot on low and go mop the floor three times. you have an hour to do lots of things.


the hour is up. your boyfriend is home and hooooo-weeeee-boy is he hungry. time for dinner!


good job.

a sad week for friend's dogs.

bye, Mr. Wiggum.


bye, Piggy.


sweet old friends. hug your dog extra tonight!

I am not really one to foodblog, but this is hands down my new favorite soup to make.
Let me tell you about it.

To start, you get:

onion, carrots, apples, celery, butternut squash, and potatos

you peel that squash, it sucks but you have to do it.


and those carrots


then you get ready for a bunch of chopping. you might want to crack a beer before you handle the pork, so now's the time. get to work!


omg cut it all up into nice bite size pieces, for serious.


oh ya, even the pork


take some butter in a pan, melt it, then put that pork in there.


BROWN IT! now is also the idea time to add some salt and pepper.


you should take 3 cups of chicken broth and put it in your crockpot on high. also mince a couple cloves of garlic and put it in there. also, maybe some rosemary and a bay leaf. and a dog? your call there.


i said BROWN IT!


then pour it into the crockpot juice, all hot and sizzly


dump all the rest of that stuff you took forever to chop up in there.


then crockpot it for an eternity! take this stuff and put it in your compost. or don't! i don't care what you do.


this doesn't make it look very appetizing, but i swear it is.


it will take you forever to eat the whole crockpot full by yourself, so maybe you should freeze some or give some away. either way, it is delicious and you will love yourself for making it

early thanksgiving with friends and a firepit







delicious. there were three different green bean casserole, deep fried (infrared) turkey and oven baked turkey, and so many other sides. best meal.
in other news, dottie is hilarous. turn the volume up to hear her snoring.

busy weekend. snuggled with dogs as much as possible, but still had tons of stuff to do.

saturday night was a double bonfire night. barrel fire at the bowl, volcano bonfire at pats.

as always, danger abounds

worked a swap meet sunday, sold a bunch of andrews stuff but hardly none of my own. i know thats right. no bigs, mine will go on the interwebs starting tomorrow.

went to a firepit/mulled cider/donught/pumpkin carving get together later that evening.

dottie came with me and slept in my lap by the fire, mostly. however later in the night she was worn as a hat. willingly. she's a good dog.

it was really nice to see out of town friends and other faces that i hadn't seen in quite a while.

overall it was such a great night. stayed out too late considering i had to be up early the next day to work out a new lease with potential new landlords, but it was worth it. i love fall, its the best.

So swimming pool weather Monday was followed by cold rainy weather Tuesday.
Anticipating a rough day, we broke out Egons old too-small raincoat for Dottie to wear.



Glad its over, yesterday was real stressful.

Wow. A lot going on lates.
Yesterday took Egon and Dottie to the Chimbo dog park twice, tryin to wear those jerks out!
There was a baby pool there, in the little dog section, and I cleaned it out and filled it with about two inches of water.

Egon jumped immeaditely in, and laid down.

He laid in it quite a bit, rolling around and laying on his side.

He kept rolling over in it.

Then he would hide in it, waiting for Dottie to come close so he could ambush her with a wild splash.

It was hilarious. I laughed and laughed. He is crazy, I had no idea he would love a baby pool so much.