Chicken and Corn Chowder with Sweet Potatoes

This is one of those things where Cooks Country/Illustrated, implies a thing, but doesn’t actually say it. Would I prefer to have just corn meal and some other ingredients, rather thin jiffy corn mix? (which I threw away part of cause what am I going to use the rest of a tiny box for). Yes short cut, but seriously, give another option. Also with their clear limitation that you can only have 3 steps, it creates sub steps in a “paragraph” that is not great to read when you are doing actual steps.

That all being said, it made a really good stew and I like the method (other then my general complaint about the corn mix), more then I was expecting, but it made for really good leftovers, if I’m honest.

Tomato Rice Bake with Smoked Sausage

Relatively easy to put together, though I did end up putting the sausage in a circle in the pan, which made it took a bit longer. The only issue, overall, was the rice was unevenly cooked. While mine ranged from done to underdone, Shannon’s ranged from done to a bit crispy. I can see the flavor in it, and when I put it away I added a bit more chicken stock, hoping that it’ll soak in so when I reheat the leftovers, they’ll get done enough. I can see how this should go, and it seems like a good plan, but maybe a bit more time being covered like and hour and fifteen minutes. Or perhaps, partially cook the rice before hand.

I used a package of Spicy Smoked Sausage from Red Table Meat. My second time.. It is quite delicious.

Baked Potato with Green Onion Sausage

I noticed I had a lot of green onion sausage, which I would normally use for pizza, which I haven’t been making lately. Because of this I though it would be good for a baked potato, and i it was!. Clearly an easy dinner. Shredded Prairie Breeze, Sour Cream, green onion sausage.

Pasta

Just my normal random pasta, good as always.