Sweetcorn Chowder with Toasted Tortillas

Well friends I'm a lot of things but I'm not a liar so I won't lie to you. This soup is a nice change from the ordinary but it's not an earth shattering revelation in chowders. Would I make this again? Yeah, sure...but only if I'm looking to change things up in the soup department - break away from the norm type thing.

The soup is easy enough to make - I didn't quite do my research to a Tee with this one. It was another one where I hmmmmed and hawed about making it then decided at work to do it and googled my ingredients and picked up what I needed on the way home. You use 1 kilo frozen corn that has been thawed.....I missed that part. So there I am sitting with 1 kilo frozen corn and a ticking clock. My solution to this was to run the corn under hot tap water in a sieve and call it defrosted. This worked well enough. My next issue was that it was tonight that I realized my "food processor" isn't a food processor at all. It's a "deluxe chopper". Really this looks JUST like a food processor but mini. They are from the same family but I'm guessing that the actual food processor is a little better and the "blitzing to a speckled primrose mush". My soup was a little chunky. But I liked it that way. I could dip the tortillas in it like a salsa (very tasty)... really if I'd wanted to I could have used my hand blender to finish the job once everything was in the pot. Make it all nice and smooth like. But my hand blender is all the way in the basement and really that just means more dishes. So I kept the chunks. So it wasn't finely pureed. Big deal right? It's not going to make or break the recipe. Although if I were making this to impress someone I may have gone the extra mile. Or heck even if it was a Sunday afternoon I'd have taken the 45 seconds and gone to the basement...but it's Thursday night people. I really just want to finish dinner so I can look at my US magazine and zone out.

Anyhow - despite my minor issues the soup is pretty good. Both Husband and I liked this one but neither of us had a life altering experience eating this. I do think that this would make a nice little appetizer soup if you were putting on a Mexican inspired meal. Or if you're looking for a new soup to try this one is good enough- just don't expect the earth to move.