Garden cleaning, creating a corn chowder recipe, antique New England home 

Enjoy Willow and her nose prints (as I know you do...)! I just lost my furry companion, Wylie, who for 15 1/2 years blessed me with her love, her sweetness, her undying loyalty, and her messy but lovable nose prints... 💔

I use frozen corn, potatoes, onion, chicken broth, bacon and heavy cream in my corn chowder and everyone loves it! If I have fresh corn on the cob, I will use it when available.

Linda, the picture of your house against that blue sky is absolutely amazing. Your estate is absolutely gorgeous and so so New England. ❤❤❤. From South Carolina, Cheryl. Also, We prefer bacon to salt pork. In fact, I use lower sodium bacon, and it’s actually good. 😊

I laughed so hard when you said your mom said I never liked my mother's corn chowder! Lol!!

I had a little nibbled hole at our place so I just hand painted the words "Mouse House" around the top of the opening, adding a few painted forget-me-nots and it certainly provided a giggle or two!

Good morning, Linda! The chowder looked yummy! Some of my earlier blooming daffodils are out, here in my gardens in CT. I am counting down the days to receiving your spring box! I was watching Carla's video the other day, where she said she helped you fill some of the boxes, and how wonderful the items are! 💗

I love dogs with all of my heart!!

Good morning Linda. Willow has such a sweet face. I've never tried corn chowder, that I recall. I love your pink sweater. Such a beautiful garden scape, the natural stone walls make it beautiful. I can't wait to see the forsythia in bloom, one of my favorites. So exciting seeing the pops of color start to show. Brave little bee, it's still cold. See you Sunday, have a blessed week. ❤😊

What a perfect spot to watch the sunrise. ☀️ i just cleaned dog smudges from my bedroom door yesterday. 😉 The corn chowder looks delicious. It's been many years since eating it. It's always so exciting watching the gardens waking this time of year!! 🐝🌱

I like to boil ham hocks, using the liquid as part of the stock for my corn chowder. I do use frozen or can whole kernel corn. The amount of potatoes totally depends on how many I am feeding. I would focus on one recipe and tweak it to your taste... some like more onions, more or less potatoes....you do you. I know real cooks would call this sacrilegious....but I add one can of cream of chicken soup to my half and half and butter. Yummmmm

Awake at 2:00 AM? Hmm.... sounds familiar! I love making corn chowder and I usually make chicken corn chowder, which is a nice hearty meal. Also, I usually caramelize onions in any soup that I make, which adds a lot of flavor. Of course I always add bacon to corn chowder because after all ....who doesn't love bacon! I'm sure that we are all happy to see the "green things" poking through the ground as Spring makes her way to our little corner of New Hampshire. Looking forward to seeing your bedroom when you finish with the beautiful bee wallpaper. As usual, Willow is just as cute as can be!! Thanks for another nice video and for sharing with all of us!🌷🌷🫖🫖🌺🌺

Bon Appetite Linda 😋 Your adding the bacon was my very thought, I always enjoy bacon with potato soup 🍲. Welcome to Spring, enjoyed the preview of the garden and barn also of Willow. 🐕

Love the pussy willows and the green rooster...the colors are perfect! BTW...I use fresh or frozen corn in my corn chowder.

Did the bedroom wallpaper get completed? I don't recall seeing video of that.

Maybe sleep instead of video

I love seeing your beautiful Willow in the videos. She brings a smile to all dog lovers.

Good morning kiindered spirits

I adore watching little bee butts disappearing down my Calla lilies in late winter here - they always have cute little seventies' style "legwarmers" on their hind legs: they collect a LOT of pollen from those long thick stamens! Your corn chowder looks delicious - on one visit to the Boston area, we stopped and had lobster chowder and corn bread at the Jenny Grist Mill restaurant, while watching the squirrels run up and down some lovely old trees....good memories.

Our very chilly “Spring” weather is perfect for corn chowder! I’ve made it many times over the years and always include bacon (salt pork is fine, too, but not crucial), sautéing it in a Dutch oven on the stovetop as you did. I then drain off the excess bacon drippings (reserving some to add back to the pot as needed, and storing the rest in the fridge or freezer for other uses). I sauté the onions in the same pot in the remaining bacon drippings, then add the diced potatoes and my own chicken stock (always in the freezer) just to cover in the pot (more flavorful than water, which is fine for a vegetarian version without the bacon, and sautéing the onions earlier in butter). Once the potatoes are cooked through, I add both canned corn (drained) and creamed corn, salt, pepper and herbs (basil, thyme, chives, etc.) to taste. I finish it with evaporated milk (or cream if I’m feeling very decadent). I don’t need to measure at this point and just use as much of each ingredient as I need or prefer, but my version isn’t very different from yours. Glad you enjoyed your impromptu version! 😊

Hi Linda another great video. I just wanted to tell you, you have inspired my niece to continue her own channel called “Devon Smedley”. She has beautiful gardens and has started also sharing indoor videos. You are a great influence to all of us!

Where can I purchase the loose tea steeper? I see you could not sleep some time’s like me. Like your arrangement by the beautiful Rooster. You are so dedicated to your viewers that’s why I can’t wait to see each week what Linda, has waiting for us. I see you have Caraway pots and pans well at least they look like them, how do you like them? I am thinking about purchasing a set. Bring on more of that music 🎶. Linda Thanks! For your fun inspiration to keep me positive when I have been taking care of my husband for two years. This is what keeps me going forward . Love Marilyn from Michigan. ❤️

Chowder looks delicious. Down here in Louisiana shrimp and a block of cream cheese would go in the pot.

I use chicken stock in my corn chowder, and use my frozen corn from the previous season always. Yes I cut it off the cobs…. So fabulous. Yours looks delicious as well. Thanks for sharing.

missing your Sunday videos, they were my favorite while sipping my Sunday morning coffee, gratings from Chicago.

Myself and Hubby decided that once a week we will try a new dish, so I've decided your corn chowder recipe will be our next new dish. Thank you so much Linda. I'm excited to cook this👩🏽‍🍳

Linda, you made me laugh with the fact your mom didn’t like her mom’s corn chowder 🦗!😂 The potato doing tasks with you😂. I am late , cause I had to do my walk. Trying to get my Christmas weight off😅! Willow is an early riser like we are!

I live all you do inside and outside of your beautiful home! I always look forward to your videos thank you!!

Such a joyful video! Have a great day Linda!!

I have alway made corn chowder. You need to put in cream style corn in your pot. The cream style corn makes it a chowder other wise it is a corn soup. Also adding the cream style makes it thicker and delicious.

My corn chowder potatoes,onion,coked in bacon grease but I remove the bacon and add it back in the end chicken stock thyme bay leaves garlic heavy cream and of course corn but I use corn from our garden that I have frozen where the cob has been scraped,I do thicken it with a little flour or corn starch. But very little add bacon and chives at the end and sometimes I add in Shrimp . The first time I have ever heard of boiling water on potatoes that’s interesting. But being from the South,years ago we had Spring houses,smoke houses but I have NO CLUE what a sugar house is . ??? Thanks as always a great video 🌿🍃Spring s sprung in East Tennessee every thing but tulips 🌷

❤Your corn chowder looks soooo good! 😊

I’ve never noticed ur eagle weather vane. It is gorgeous! Did u/Ben put that on or was it already there? God bless, John 3:16

#906👍🏻 Hello, Miss Linda😊💐 Just A HINT: When serving soup on a plate, put a little coctail napkin under the bowl. 😊 It will prevent the bowl from sliding on the plate, AND will catch any drips! 👍🏻 (in case you didnt know) 💖💐✨HAPPY SPRING✨💐💖

Good morning Linda from Canada we have had snow all week long it doesn’t stay but yesterday we got a lot like I said it doesn’t stay just a dusting on the lawn as I watch your video snow flakes are trying I hope it’s nice next week going into easter love your video and willow

I'm curious if you took some chowder to your mom, and if she liked it. Hoping you share how you made it, looks delicious. Love your videos❤

It has been AGES since I made corn chowder. I loved making it years ago. As I’ve been getting older I haven’t made it because of the sugar aspect of the corn and the cream I often used. I love it with bacon and drippings as well as garnishes. I usually allow myself corn on the cob at least once every summer from a farm stand if possible. This month I’m making mushroom soup (never have done this before) as an interesting endeavor. I truly enjoy trying new recipes since I am the sole critic. It is actually quite fun. 😊

Hi Linda, I think you corn chowder soup looked delicious. I always enjoy your videos. Your house and property are both so beautiful.

Love it! I always enjoy seeing what you’re up to, Linda. Thanks for sharing your beautiful life with us ❤

Hi Linda! As always, you provide us with calmness and inspiration when our minds are full of too much else. You made me laugh going around the house with a potato; I can definitely relate. Love watching you cook. Going outdoors with you and Willow is always a treat. Thank you for sharing your talents and home with us!

When you’re awake at the early time, do you ever get back to sleep or stay up? I was up three times last night!

Please, please, please don’t cook with aluminum foil. When heated the aluminum leaches into your food. Alzheimer’s! Use parchment paper instead.

This GRIT(girl raised in the south!) was raised on salt pork. Use it all the time, particularly in any kind of dried beans. Will try your version of corn chowder and use our Kentucky homegrown corn! Love the daffodils they grow wild in Kentucky!

When I have a cookbook opened, with 2 different recipes, I will cover the one I am not making, with something..as I have mixed up ingredients as I had been looking at the wrong side! Lol!

What are your countertops? Honed black granite? They are beautiful!

Great photography showing the bees in the garden! I make a chicken corn chowder that seems to be quite popular with our family and friends. It calls for bacon and half and half that I saw in your version! Thanks for sharing.

There’s creamy corn chowder and that with broth…and I like chicken in it. I prefer the Amish recipes! Chicken corn chowder….

Thanks for the chowder recipe. I think any time corn comes out of a can it tastes tinny., or metallic. Frozen or fresh is so much better. But the recipe seems lovely and I look forward to making it!

Linda, the Vidalia onion is pronounced Vi-day-ya. The l is silent. We love them! We are Georgia ppl❤

Willow is so sweet , nose prints and all lol Love the early mornings I have 2 Boston cook books both say salt pork I have always made it without Yours looks so yummy Thanks for sharing

Beautiful crocus with the little honey bees, can't wait to see the sugar shack and the garden gate. Thank you for the corn chowder recipe. I love your rock fences & looking forward to all of your flowers, plants, Linda. A hug to Willow...

I always use bacon and a can of cream corn...it helps to thicken it a little... of course I am from the south and we serve it with corn bread :)

Monday posting could be great since there seems to be not many others posting then. Sundays are for church and families around here or just a day of rest or reflection from the outside world if not inclined. Just my humble opinion 😍

Your chowder looks delicious! Might make it tonight! ❤

What kind of lavender plants do you have.what variety.

I had never had corn chowder before until a couple of years ago when we took a trip to Pigeon Forge Tennessee and ate at a restaurant the locals raved about called The Old Mill. They automatically bring everyone a cup of corn chowder and a basket of breads. I was hooked at first bite. They even have a little Country Store adjacent to the restaurant that sells kits to make the chowder at home including soup bowls and breads. We like country ham with our corn chowder. A great cold weather meal😋

Thank you, Linda! I make a recipe from Taste of Home called Cheddar Ham Chowder; one of my family’s favorites. Happy Thursday! ❤

I loved your face when you said your mother hated her mom’s chowder! Priceless!🤣 One of our favorite restaurants has a lobster corn chowder that’s so good! Adding the chunks of lobster definitely elevates this humble dish!❤

I'm from Georgia. Vidalia is pronounced with a long I and long A - Veye-day-lee-uh. Just thought you'd like to know how Georgians pronounce it in our colloquial drawl 😀 I love corn chowder and your recipe looks delicious. I love your blue dutch oven too.

Hi Linda, I especially like saving corn cobs in tne freezer and using them in making corn stock . It makes a delicious base for corn chowder!!

I love seeing the flowers come up in the garden. Did your schedule change for posting? I want to make sure I don’t miss your videos especially during spring. I love all your projects. Enjoy the day.

Chowder isn’t something we make in the UK, looks appetising though. With all the extra work you’ve taken on, have you considered getting a gardening team in to clear all the borders to give you a head start. I know you had some work done last year, perhaps it’s time to get some more help.

I'm sorry you were up at 2am, but, as a lifelong potter, happy to see you're drinking tea out of a handmade mug!

Willow is my favorite and she is so fun to watch. Such a wonderful spirit! ❤

Sooo much to do outside. Such a huge yard to control. I would definitely hire landscapers or maintenance crew to do the yard and build garden boxes, cleanup for you. That way you can focus on the inside and plant your garden. 👍👍👍👍

I love to see a day with the sky that color of blue it feels magical somehow. 😊 I'm not a fan of salt pork either. I voted for the corn chowder but not sure i will make.it...i love New England clam chowder so i thought I might like it . ..i guess i was thinking of a corn relish anyway you are so fun to watch make anything and you aren't afraid to tackle anything . I really love the shed that color it just pop's... I'm putting my unasked for opinion out there😂. Enjoy your Easter planning. ❤

Blessing’s from Bethlehem, New Hampshire! ❤

My gosh if you’re up at 2, do u go back to bed or stay up? If u stay up, you must go to bed at noon😳

Hi Linda,I put unsalted chicken stock in instead of water in the beginning. Thanks ,I forgot about making it for few years .

I know this is random Linda, but I always notice your vignettes you have on your kitchen counter. Love the green rooster with the pussy willows…thank you for sharing your recipe. Cant wait for Spring and seeing your garden bloom. Blessings lovely lady 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

Googled it! “Adding potatoes to already-boiling water can cause a reaction with the starch and result in a mealy potato.”

Linda, Nice adaptation from a collection of recipes. I'm a fan of that approach. I wonder if a little canned pimento (rinsed) would change the flovor too much. My mother used "canned" (from a jar) pimento a lot... but she wasn't a particularly good cook. I received a gourmet gift basket with a jar of pimento for Christmas. They're almost too beautiful to eat.

I think corn chowder is a Southern thing! I'm in Wilmington, NC. I always add shrimp to to mine in the summer, and it is a feast!

Where did you get your tea strainer that fits in a mug ? Do you sell?

That chowder looked so good with your presentation! Amazing footage of the bees and the beautiful crocus! Thank you, Linda!! Happy Spring from the Chicago area 🪻

No canned corn!

I love corn chowder! But I add canned milk, this is how my family makes it. Also I have from time to time made it with corn and fish, surprisingly delicious.

I’m in the South, my family never ate corn chowder, but it is delicious!

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I use a recipe for Corn Chowder from a Blue Willow Inn Bible of Southern Cooking. 5 slices of bacon sauté until crisp and remove from drippings. Sauté 1 large onion in the drippings until soft. Add 2 (10 3/4- ounce) cans chicken broth and 2 cans of water. Add 3 large potatoes, peeled and diced. Cook until potatoes are done. Add 1 can cream-style corn, 2 cups evaporated milk and the bacon, salt and pepper. Looks like you all have a busy Spring and Summer planned. 😊

I see you made corn chowder my grandmothers recipe called for chicken stock and turmeric in her recipe. I also use bacon in mine. I may make this for lunch today.

Thank you for your corn chowder recipe. I am definitely going to make it and I'll use the bacon too. It looked delicious.

Hi! My husband is a chef so everything I know about cooking I’ve learned from him. One thing he adds to Corn Chowder is maple syrup. Delicious. He puts it on the menu as Maple Corn Chowder.

Hi Linda, I have been making corn chowder for many years, and taught it in my cooking classes (in Cape Elizabeth adult ed) My favorite is chicken corn chowder and Lobster Corn chowder. I use only one potato because I don't make just the corn. I use it as an added texture and boil it separately. I always use good center cut bacon. I only use salt pork in my fish chowder and crisp it enough to use as croutons in the fish chowder. I generally use Half and half or milk and half and half. I have not tried the boiling water! Next time! Thank you!! jannieo

Oh my goodness. Sometimes I suffer from insomnia and wonder should I keep trying to fall asleep or just get up and start breakfast 🙄 it’s so frustrating. Aww willow 😊 ❤ do you ever try to lay down next to Willow to sleep? I’ve heard our pets can have a calming effect.

Too funny… when you were almost done with the chowder, my thought was, “ I’d definitely add bacon.” We make a crab bisque that everyone loves. I love making soups and chowders. Now making corn chowder is a must. Thanks Linda 🌷

It’s gonna BEE 🐝 a very busy spring & summer for you with all your projects 🌸🌼🌲🥬🧅🍆🫑🫛🥕🌽🍒🍎🍉🍏🍐🫐

Hello Linda, I absolutely fell in love with your tea "strainer" at the beginning of the video. Would you be so kind as to share where you got it from? FYI, 😊😊I was in Boston back in January and purchased every single tea variety I could find at the Boston Tea Party Museum...❤😊

Although it’s not an English dish your Chowder looked yummy. I love Willows head & ears, it’s always a delight to me to see her close up, I even show her to my dog Ria…silly I know!.. isn’t spring a joy Linda, so many lovely things to see in your garden & the mountains behind watching the sun come up,beautiful… Thank you, always a great video to watch…☺️

My mom used to make corn chowder when we were kids. Haven't had it in decades. I'll have to try it again. 😋

Your kindred spirits from Georgia would say “vidalia” more like this: vy -DAYL - yuh Lol. Gotta get those long vowel sounds in there. Vidalia, GA is down hear Florida,I’m in north GA (Athens), closer to the mountains. I’ve been to Massachusetts and it’s absolutely gorgeous. I think this southern gal could live there. Except for the winters 😆. Side note: we’re exactly the same age…would you happen to have been born in December as well? We seem to have such similar traits, just windering if it could be attributed to being Sagittarius

Good morning Linda! Your corn chowder looks delicious! I enjoyed the garden walk hearing about your plans! The “mouse” openings are just like something in a storybook, so cute! Most of all, I loved seeing Willow with her little duck! She is adorable! Thank you for sharing! 💕

Corn chowder looks delicious . I have never made it or had the pleasure to eat corn chowder. You inspired me to try your recipe. 👍😊

This corn chowder looks delicious. I make one every spring and use my loaded baked potatoes recipe just add the corn minus the bacon …it’s so good..such a comfort food. I love seeing the new green coming in and everything popping up. Can’t wait what you do for Easter :)

I'll try this recipe. Not usual for me to use butter, pork fat, and half & half (all 3) in 1 recipe. When I make it I think I'll cut down on the fat. Also, love seeing the 1st bees of the season!

I absolutely get the ADHD moments. I have found myself walking around with one shoe on carrying the other!😘

Love corn chowder! In my recipe I always use bacon and diced carrots along with the potatoes.

Daffodils and forsythias have been blooming here in East Tennessee a few weeks now and about to start fading. That corn chowder looked delicious. Willow is a beautiful dog. 😊

Oh Linda I don’t know how you get everything done I will try your Chowder recipe. It’s cold here in NJ but sunny ☀️ have a great weekend 😊

It is so nice to see plants popping up and spring flowers blooming, along with the bees! Seems the first trees in our neck of the woods to begin blooming are the Willows. I see a lot of green there right now. Cold and snowing here in northwest Pennsylvania, but signs of spring are everywhere. Enjoy your day!

I so enjoy your videos. Very calming actually.