Corn Chowder

I won a Vitamix last week and it came in the mail yesterday.  With a stroke of luck I was at the doctor's office (actually I was not lucky at all to be at the doctor's office), and came across a corn chowder in the blender recipe (lucky part) in the Martha Stewart Living Magazine.  I decided to give it a go.  However, her recipe called for lobster and since lobster wasn't in our budget...  I went with a less expensive variation of her recipe that I made up as I cooked it.

I would link to Martha's recipe but it's not up yet.  It's in the August 2011 Martha Stewart Living Magazine.  Really pretty with the yellow corn and lobster floating in it.

Here is my version:

Corn Chowder

5 cups chicken broth

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 whole onion – diced

1 tsp of thyme

4 cups of corn

Salt & Pepper to Taste

Sauté the onion in the olive oil until soft and glisteny.  Add chicken broth (and corn cobs if you cut the corn off) and bring to a simmer.  Add ½ the corn and cook for 5 minutes or until the corn is cooked.  Remove the corn cobs (if you put them in there) and strain the soup so you put the all the onion and corn into the blender.  Add about 2/3 cup of stock that you cooked with to blend until frothy and smooth.  Add back to the broth and add the remaining corn.  Bring to a simmer and simmer for 3-4 minutes until all the corn is cooked to the point you want it to be cooked.  Salt & Pepper to taste.  You can totally add all then corn at the beginning and then blend all the corn and onion if you want a bisque like soup.

Thanks for the inspiration, Martha. 

I didn't take a picture of this but I will start taking pictures.  Promise.  I'll try to start taking pictures.  Promise.  That's better.