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Recipe review and cost breakdown<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Creamy Spicy Corn Chowder with Chicken<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2 slices bacon, sliced in 1-inch strips (2 pkg. for 5$, .18)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 medium yellow onion, diced (.37)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 jalapeno, seeded and diced (.20)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 russet potato, diced (.34)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 small red pepper, diced (from farmers market 3\/1$ .34)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 3 cups frozen corn kernels, thawed (.84)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper (pantry)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme leaves (used dried from pantry)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2 cups milk (.38)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 3 cups chicken broth (free, from roast chicken carcass and leftover veggie bits from my freezer bag of stock veggies)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 2 cups shredded rotisserie cooked chicken (I used leftover chicken (about 1\/3 5lb bird) from roast chicken earlier in week \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>1.66)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish (.06)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 1 lime, cut into wedges (omitted)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In a large saucepot over medium heat cook bacon until crispy and all fat has rendered out. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel lined plate. Drain off all but 1 tablespoon fat, add onion, jalapeno, potato, red pepper, corn, salt and pepper and saute for about 5 minutes. Add thyme. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>In a blender, puree half the mixture and add back to the pan. Add milk, chicken broth, and chicken and let simmer for about 5 minutes. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Transfer to serving bowls. Garnish each bowl with cooked bacon, fresh cilantro and a lime wedge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Total for soup: 4.38 for 6 servings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n This really wasn’t much of a “chowder”.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t thick and creamy at all, but much more soupy.\u00c2\u00a0 You could probably thicken with cornstarch or add another potato in the beginning for more starchiness in the puree.\u00c2\u00a0 I like soupy “chowders” so I was fine with that. Hubby thought it was too much onion.\u00c2\u00a0 I like onion, and I thought it was fine, but it did seem like there was a lot of onion in there compared to the other ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe my onion was just too big.\u00c2\u00a0 It also took longer than 5 minutes for the potato, corn, etc to soften enough that I felt it was pureeable; I probably cooked it at least ten.\u00c2\u00a0 The kidlet refused to eat it like a soup, but would eat the chicken pieces or corn when I fished it out solo on a spoon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Post is linked to:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 5$ Dinner Challenge<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at 5dollardinners.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Recipe review and cost breakdown Creamy Spicy Corn Chowder with Chicken \u00c2\u00a0 2 slices bacon, sliced in 1-inch strips (2 pkg. for 5$, .18) 1 medium yellow onion, diced (.37) 1 jalapeno, seeded and diced (.20) 1 russet potato, diced (.34) 1 small red pepper, diced (from farmers market 3\/1$ .34) 3 cups […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n