Slow Cooker Corn and Potato Soup with Roasted Chickpeas (2024)

I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last recipe. After my summer vacation and trip to Austin earlier this month, it’s beentakingmy brain extra time to get back to speed. And, well, something else happened.

I left my day job.

For the past year and a half, I had been working as a product manager at a Bay Area startup food company. I never pictured myself working in the food industry after law school. (Actually, I never imagined starting a blog either.) Yet, there I was, learning how to source food products and develop product packaging. And while I loved everyone that I worked with, there was something inside telling me that it was time to move on.

Let me just say that all of this is exciting and quite scary for me. Transitioning from ajob with steady income to becoming a full-on #girlboss is scary. Yes, it’s great to have more time to work on building my blog and my brand, but trying to figure out how to manage this time is overwhelming. Quite honestly, I admire my fellow bloggers who have all of this together.

But at the end of the day, I had to ask myself what I want to do with my life. What do I want to achieve? (I’m turning 30 in a week, by the way, so I’ve been prone to bouts of introspection as of late.)

At this point, I can’t say that I have all the answers, but I do have a clearer vision of what I want to do: use my blog to help people become more comfortable with cooking and share recipes that are near and dear to my heart. Over the next year, I will try to create more content around kitchen basics, simple weeknight dinners and Asian recipes. I hope you’ll enjoy what there is to come!

Now, on to this corn and potato soup. I want to keep cooking with fresh corn while it’s still available, so I decided to make a corn and potato soup—the perfect thing for a chilly autumnevening. I made this soup in a slow cooker, but you can certainly cook it on the stovetop, too.

MASTERINGMY MISTAKES / COOKING NOTES

• Using fresh vs. frozen corn: This recipe works well for fresh or frozen corn. If you’re using fresh corn, you’ll need about 3 to 4 ears. The soup tasted a bit sweeter when I used fresh corn, which I liked.
• A note on using fresh thyme: If you are using thyme with tender stems (they’re usually green), don’t bother snipping the leaves off. Just blend them along with the rest of the ingredients. If you are using thyme with woodier stems, you’ll want to snip off the leaves.
• Leftovers: If you want to store the soup for a long time, pour the soup into ice cube molds and freeze it. Once frozen, remove the cubes from the molds and store the cubes in a plastic bag. When you’re ready to eat the soup again, just melt the ice cubes in a saucepan. Try to eat the soup within 2 months for the best flavor.