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July 10, 2003 8:19 P.M. Summer Soup My miniature Doxie, Chloe. She is a �long-hair�, but has her summer trim. I made some of my �clean out the leftovers and make wonderful� soup, today. I generally do not use recipes unless I am baking cookies or pastries of some sort. I don�t know where I learned how to cook. My mom did as little cooking as she could get by with. But somewhere along the way, I became a really good home style�sort of Southern�cook. I think making pie crust from scratch is, - well - as easy as pie! The thing I enjoy the most is creating a really good pot of soup. I have a �no-white carbs� vegetable soup that was SO good the first time I tried it, that I did write down the recipe immediately, so that I could repeat it exactly. I call it my *�Wolfgang Puck Eat Your Heart Out� vegetable soup. But today, it was a corn potato chowder. We had fire roasted ears of corn, small boiled red potatoes, and fresh cooked green beans left over from a weekend cookout. I crisped two slices of Maple Bacon from COSTCO, added a quarter stick of butter and lightly browned half a chopped onion in a skillet. Then I cut the roasted corn from the ears and diced up the four boiled red potatoes. I placed all this in a medium sauce pan and added a can of evaporated milk (cream would be better), another quarter stick of butter, a small amount of mild cheese, a dollop of sugar, salt and coarse pepper to taste. If I had celery, I would have added a diced stalk of celery. I added milk to provide sufficient liquid. To top it off, I tossed in about one fourth cup of cooked green beans, and stirring together, brought it all to a simmer. At this point, I added just enough instant potato flakes to thicken the broth a little. I think that was it. If you prefer it spicy, you could add your own choice of seasoning. I am not much of a �spicy� person. I know this is not exactly �soup season�, but save it for a cool, rainy day. And speaking of cool, rainy days, here is something I wrote a couple of years ago. We recently cleaned off the hard drive of my old computer, and I found this �essay� in My Documents folder. I thought I would share it with you.
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