Corn & Bacon Chowder

Ingredients

• 6-8 cups water
• 3-4 ears sweet corn
• 1/2 onion
• 1-2 carrots (roughly chopped)
• 1-2 ribs celery (roughly chopped)
• 2 cloves smashed garlic
• Salt
• 10 black peppercorns
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp oil
• 3 pieces bacon, roughly chopped
• 1 large zucchini, chopped to bite-sized pieces
• 4 small carrots, chopped to bite-sized pieces
• 2 cloves garlic, sliced
• 5 red potatoes, quartered (or 1.5-2 cups other potato, chopped to 1")
• 2 tsp dried thyme
• 1/2-3/4 cup heavy cream