Seafood Corn Chowder Recipe

Fall is here!  The Detroit Lions game is today and our family is meeting up with some other wrestling families to watch the game.   So I thought it fitting to have our favorite Wrestling Season Comfort Food....Seafood Corn Chowder!!! Yumm-O!!  Here is the recipe below!

Prep Time 15 Minutes Cook 20 Minutes Makes 4/5 Servings(I double this for our family)

1 14 oz can chicken broth
1 cup sliced celery about 2 stalks
1 cup chopped onion or 1 large
1/2 cup sliced carrots or 1 medium
1 14.75 oz can of cream-style corn
2 sprigs of thyme
1/8 teaspoon ground pepper
Few dashes to taste of hot pepper sauce
10-12 oz cooked shrimp and or crabmeat
(we use for a dble batch 2 small packages crab meat immitation and 1 bag of 40-50 lrge shrimp)

We use oyster crackers or saltines to go with this and sometimes put potatoes in our soup also.  We mix it up some.  If you like more heat add red pepper flakes.

First in a medium saucepan combine broth, celery, onion, and carrot.  Bring this to a boil and reduce the heat.  Simmer, covered for about 20 minutes or until vegetables are fork tender.  Cool Slightly.

Transfer 1/2 the broth vege mixture to a blender or food processor.  Cover and blend until smooth.  Repeat with the remaining mixture and then pour that back into your saucepan.  Then stir in your corn, add sprigs of thyme, pepper, whipping cream, crab meat and/or shrimp.  Heat through. 

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My Son Bryce Hopkins Performing with the Silver Lake Show Ski Team

Silver Lake Show Ski Team

My son Bryce was a member this summer with the Silver Lake Show Ski Team.  At one time my family had 22 of our family members on the team.  Everyone from my parents, sisters, nieces, nephews, my kids, my brother and sister in law.  It was so much fun. 

My son Bryce Hopkins, my brother-in-law Eric Corcoran, and my niece Kailee Corcoran are still members.  This summer they competed 3 different times all out of state.  This last time they took 3rd place in Rock Island, Illinois.  It takes many hours of practice not only on land but also water time and LOTS of fundraising to allow this ski team to flourish.  Bryce loves to ski and barefoot. 

Even wrestlers ski!  Connor Brancheau who is a D1 wrestler for MICHIGAN and many former and high school wrestlers all are members of this team.  This is a great bunch of people!

Bryce performing is straps he is the 2nd one in from the right.

This is an old picture from 2010 of my son Bryce Hopkins, Connor Brancheau, Brady Morton, Hunter Corcoran (another one of my sons) and my nephew Layne Swartz.  Handsome bunch of guys!

Bryce after perfroming his barefoot flier act.





Love this picture of Bryce with his grandparents.  Donna Corcoran, Joyce Lifsey, Bryce Hopkins and Al Lifsey.  They love to come watch the kids peform.

Cure For Stinky Wrestling Shoes and Work Out Clothes

Do you ever look around your house wondering where that funky smell is coming from?  In my house with 5 boys....it is usually either their nasty wrestling shoes, sweaty work out clothes, disgusting socks that can walk by themselves or tennis shoes.  Regardless of what it may be I have help.

During the end of the season last year I started to make my own laundry detergent.  I bought a plastic container with a lid from the hardware store and a meat grinder from a second hand store in town.  I use the recipe I have listed below to make my own powder detergent.  The meat grinder grinds the soap and is much easier than grating it with an old cheese grater.  Tried that and didn't have knuckles left.  Mix all the ingredients. 

It’s only four ingredients!

1  (4 pound) box of Super Washing Soda

(Note:  If you can not find washing soda you can take baking soda and put it in a pan on 400 degrees until the soda has turned a dull color.  Mix it occasionally while baking it. )

1 (4pound) box of Baking Soda

1 (4 pound) box of Borax

3 bars of Kirk’s Castile soap–Shredded

(you can use Fels Naptha, Zote, or Ivory soaps)

Mix well in a large container.

Add two heaping tablespoons to each load of laundry.

I swear by this recipe.  My laundry is whiter, brighter, towels and laundry fluffier, and you have none of that sour smell.  This combination truly helps get that funk out of your laundry.

In the rinse cycle I also add 1/4 cup of vinegar.  I know it sounds crazy, but it is a great softener.

This too helps eliminate the funky smell. 

Best of all....it costs pennies to do my laundry!