Oy vey!!!!!!!!! Corn Chowder and Raw Kale salad with a Strawberry shortcake, that I can't eat for dessert!

This is how I feel at this very moment....I want to hide my face....wait till you see what I did....

Guess what, I cooked again!!!
Tonight I made my mothers Corn Chowder,which I happen to think is the best dog gone Corn Chowder in the world. It isn't fancy....it isn't hard to make, and you probably have all the ingredients in your fridge and pantry!

Clockwise from top:
Corn, russet potatoes, carrots, yellow onion, and celery with leaves

My Holy Trinity of cooking. Sauteed carrots, celery and onion

The Recipe~~~

Corn Chowder

Ingredients:

3 cups celery chopped, with leaves left on
2 cups carrots, peeled and sliced
5 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 large yellow onion, chopped
1-2 tbls. vegan margarine
16 ounces rice milk
1 bag frozen corn
2 cans creamed corn
Parsley, pepper and salt

In a large pot over medium heat add 1 tbls. margarine, carrots, celery, and onion. Cook until crisp tender. Add potatoes and frozen corn and enough water to cover. Bring to a medium simmer. Let cook for about 30 minutes until potatoes can easily poked through with a fork. Now, add your rice milk, remaining margarine, and creamed corn. Turn up heat to medium making sure not to boil your chowder. Cook for about an additional 30 minutes.... Serve with parsley sprinkled over bowl, or just eat it....

Adding potatoes and frozen corn to the trinity.

Finished chowder!!!

For some reason I only make this once a year. Now that I think of it, I only make it around Easter too...Hmmm? That is little strange don't ya think?

Any hoo.......

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Kale salad

Ingredients:

1/2 head of kale, washed and torn

2 large cloves of fresh garlic

1/2 of a lemon that you rolled first (it extracts more juice)
Red sea salt ( I put the salt in an old Tabasco sauce bottle after going to Chipotle Grill)

Cracked black pepper

In a large bowl add your kale and garlic. Now rubbing with your hands, get the garlic all over the kale. Add lemon juice salt and pepper to taste and serve..Delish!

Kale salad dressed and ready to eat!

Corn Chowder and Kale Salad

Corn Chowder close up

This is sooooo not vegan....This is Kaiti's strawberry shortcake....It was a last minute run to the grocery store..You see, I just put together the new office upstairs in our home and I was also visiting with Emma who came to have dinner as soon as she heard the words Corn Chowder.....

I made some sugar biscuits that I have made for years for the shortcakes, totally vegan, completely delicious....Here is the problem. I was moving things out of the downstairs pantry
and took some trash outside to the bin. Emma came with me and we started singing. Emma and I sing folk songs for fun, we are pretty good, I am an alto and Emma is a soprano, so we can harmonize quite well (if I do say so myself). We finished the last song (we sang about 15 songs outside BTW, (I am sure the neighbors hate us) came in, and I popped the sugar biscuits in the oven and we proceeded to go upstairs to my office.

About 45 minutes later Kaiti came home from school and called up the stairs "Is something in the oven?"............

And there was..............

Thanks to Mushu for posing all afternoon and helping to distract Emma and myself from paying attention to anything!