Quick Meals Planner: Jim's Chowder
Virginia Jim's Sweet Potato, Corn and Shrimp Chowder | Focaccia
Virginia Jim's Sweet Potato, Corn and Shrimp Chowder
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Soups |
| Meal: | Jim's Chowder (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 4 | medium | sweet potatoes |
| 2 | slices | bacon |
| 1 | large | onions, diced |
| 3 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 4 | cup | chicken broth |
| 1 | lb | corn, frozen |
| 0.75 | lb | shrimp, deveined, shelled |
| 1.5 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 0.5 | tsp | pepper, fresh cracked |
| 1 | Tb | thyme, dried |
| 2 | Tb | dill weed, fresh |
| 1 | drops | hot sauce to taste |
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Peel and cut sweet potatoes into 1/2 cubes. Heat oil in a large soup pot. Add potatoes and bacon ( cut into 1/2 pieces; cook for a few minutes. Add onions and garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Add chicken broth and simmer until the sweet potatoes are fork tender. Remove 11/2 cups of potatoes from the pot and mash; return to pot along with the shrimp, corn, spices, herbs and hot sauce, simmer for 5 minutes or until the shrimp are cooked through. Garnish with dill and optional sour cream dollop.
Focaccia
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Medium |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Breads |
| Meal: | Jim's Chowder (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 1 | cup | water |
| 1 | Tb | yeast, fresh |
| 1 | tsp | sugar, granulated |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 3.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
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Whisk yeast into 1-cup warm temperature water and let sit for 5 minutes. Whisk in sugar and salt and stir until dissolved. Using a wooden spoon, gradually mix in about flour and olive oil. Knead until dough is smooth and elastic. Place in a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size. Punch down and bake on a greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees until light brown- about 20 minutes.
Hint: You may top your focaccia with chopped fresh rosemary, freshly ground black pepper, etc;
Focaccia shown in picture is loaded with fresh spinach, black olives, onion, fresh tomatoes, and goat cheese.
