When life gives you sardines...

Yo folkses.

Here's a new recipe (if you can call it that) that I threw together (literally) yesterday (the day before today).  I call it Davy Jones's chowder.

Ingredients:
Pasta
Sardines
Water
Salt
Pepper
Oregano
Soy Sauce
Bacon
Garlic Powder
Onion
Olive Oil
Corn

Directions:
These directions are to the ones I used to make a small pot of soup (about 3 bowls) so if you want to expand it, multiply!

• Pick your favorite type of pasta (remember, it's going in the soup so plan surface to volume ratios accordingly) and cook it.  In a pot.  With water.  Leave enough water to make the broth of the soup.  It might affect pasta cooking time, so be aware.
• Dice one onion.  Wipe the tears out of your eyes.  Season with salt and peppa.  Sautee the diced onion.  Set cooked onion aside
• Cut the bacon (about five strips) into pieces about a cm wide.  Season with pepper and oregano.  Cook until golden and crispylicious.
• Prepare your corn (open the can or cut it off the cob).  If you bought creamed corn, slap yourself.
• Is the pasta done yet?  Okay, wait for it to finish.
• How about now?
• Okay, good.  Turn the pasta water down to a low setting (2 or three).  We don't want to cook it anymore, but we do need it warm.  Open your can of sardines.  They look disgusting, no?  Too bad, we're using them anyway. 
• Mash up the sardines into a paste.  They should already be halfway there.  Take three tsp. of paste-ified sardine and stir it into the pasta water.  It should start to smell fishy seeing as you just added fish.
• Season broth with salt, pepper, garlic powder and oregano as desired.  Pick your own measurements, I can't do everything for you people.  Add more sardine if you want.
• Add the corn and bacon (and bacon grease of course).  Stir and let equilibrate at a hot temperature.
• Ladle into a bowl and enjoy!

I was actually surprised at how this turned out.  The entire time I was adding stuff to it I kept thinking "Holy Crap, Holy Crap, What am I doing?"  But I've had three bowls in two days and I still think it turned out well.  The only thing I didn't like was that I added too much pepper.