In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

So today started off without a hitch, Margaret got up, made me coffee, cleaned the stove top, and then woke me up. It was very nice. I got in the kitchen and looked at the stove top and she said, “Well, I hope I cleaned it as good as you want it to be, so you can start cooking immediately.” How sweet is that? We have done a lot of cooking and the cooktop looked horrible from dried remains from boiled over water, splattered oil, and various splatters from other projects.

SOOOOO……………………………………………………………………………on top of that she also did the dishes. Yea, yea, we do have a dishwasher, but if you’ve seen the inside of it, you’d hand wash your dishes TOO!

After a bit of news and Sis posting I decided to start on the soup. Now that was around 9:40 when I started.

After about 2 hours (hey, perfection takes time, jackass) of soup making, I unveiled it to Margaret. She took a taste and said, “That’s not soup and that’s not white chicken chili. That’s creamy chicken soup.” Now that’s not what I was going for, because I was trying to make white chicken chili. Since I forgot the beans (hey, who hasn’t heard of bean-less chili?) I forged on anyway. I threw in the spices that I thought should be in there and voila. Got Me Chowder was born.

I basically thought of this recipe on my own without the influence of others. It’s basically potato’s diced, a whole chicken (shredded), onion, fresh parsley, and garlic. For the spices, it basically revolved around white pepper, chili powder, cayenne pepper, pepper, and salt. I didn’t want this to end up yellow or even orange, so I focused on the white pepper even though you can see the cayenne and chili pepper in there while you eat it. Time came and Margaret asked, “So, what are you going to call it?” and I said, “Got me.”

And thus Got Me Chowder was born.

It was battered around as Got Me Soup, Got Me Stewp, and Got Me Stuff. Since we already have Kick Ass Chicken Stuff we couldn’t have two “stuffs” in our cookbook.

For a first chowder I accidentally made, I’m pretty happy with it. The only thing I needed help with was in creating the rue, because I’ve only done it a couple of times and Margaret became pro overnight. I guess over-morning depending on how you look at it.

Bon Appetite!

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