Insta Pot Soup Rides Again

Howdy friends! I survived another week! Yeeeeeehaw! Idk, I’m not a cowboy nor do I play one on tv but whatevs. Last night I tried another Half Baked Harvest recipe....Chipotle Cheddar Corn Chowder. In the instant pot.  As you know, I love the instant pot. I do not love washing the instant pot because as you also know, I am terrible at washing pots. Oh well. At any rate! Here we goooo! 

I half cooked my bacon in the instant pot but then moved to a frying pan because it was sticking and it was irritating me and I was SUPER CRANKY. Then though I did the onions, garlic and corn in the instant pot. NOM NOM. It’s all steamy so you can’t really see. 

It also called for one russet potato of which I did not have so I used Yukon Golds and a few of them (ok 4). I actually think when I make this again I will use even more potatoes. 

See the bacon and corn? Mmmmm

Anywhoodle you sauté it all in and throw in some chicken stock and the pressure cook it for a  little bit (like 10 min). 

It SAYS to take out half and blend it up and put it back and add in the rest of the ingredients to sauté again and thicken. The rest of the ingredients at this point were cheese and milk. Mmmmmm. I didn’t blend it for the following reasons: 

1. Didn’t feel like taking out the food processor

2. Didn’t feel like washing the food processor after using it and 

3. Basically just those two reasons. 

Then you chop up cilantro and add it in. The recipe called for the bacon to be a topping but I chopped it up little and mixed it in. 

Overall, it came out great! 3/5 people in my family liked it. One that didn’t apparently doesn’t like “flavored liquid” (news to me) and the other one “doesn’t like all of it” which is insane because that kid likes corn, potatoes, cilantro....soooooo? IDK. In conclusion, I created a table in Docs that catalogues the meals the kids/hubs like and ALSO keeps track of new things people hate. One of the kids told me last week he loves mushrooms and why don’t I make stuff with mushrooms? Um. What. 


Anyway. Make this soup. It was tasty. I will make it again but just for me and Jerms because Corn Chowder.