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BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?

03 Feb 09 - 12:58 PM (#2556295)
Subject: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: olddude

in the mood for a good home made New England clam chowder
do you have a good recipie?

Kendall, your Pot roast was wonderful thank you

03 Feb 09 - 01:36 PM (#2556332)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Big Mick

Can't wait for this one, buddy. I make an average NE style chowdah, and would love to pick up a great tip or two.

Mick

03 Feb 09 - 02:28 PM (#2556373)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: olddude

Me too Mick
I got some from the web, all are very average. Someone has to have a killer recipe here

03 Feb 09 - 02:41 PM (#2556386)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Jean(eanjay)

I don't have a killer recipe or any chowder recipe for that matter but I do have a lot of fish stock in the freezer and I could do with a recipe myself!

03 Feb 09 - 04:19 PM (#2556459)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: catspaw49

Well grab some shellfish and cheapfish and make Ciaoppino!

Spaw

03 Feb 09 - 04:23 PM (#2556464)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: MMario

I've never been able to duplicate my Mom's chowder...but then again - I haven't had access to fresh deep sea quahogs (the ones about 4 or 5 inches across dredged from the sea bottom) since I moved off-cape.

03 Feb 09 - 05:47 PM (#2556521)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Barry Finn

Real NE clam chowda;
Since I was a little kid I used to bring home buckets of clams that I dug up on Cape Cod in the summer time off the beaches & sandbars. Some people gone straight to heaven after eating it. I only wish my lobster bisk was as good.

Cook (boil) up a bunch of clams, quahogs will do but don't waste you time doing steamers, they're for gulping not for stews or chowda's, hard shell & little necks are good too, I like little necks best. Use the broth or buy some clam juice & start cooking up some cut up potatoes, I cook my clams with the potatoes & don't strain any of the liquid. Seperately I cook up 1-2 piece(s) of bacon (Canadian bacon's ok but it's not New England then) till it'll crumble (I crumble it into the chowda) set it aside & add only after you've added the milk & cream. Cut up some onion, a little celery, a tiny bit of roasted red pepper & some garlic & add to the pan that the bacon was cooked in. After that mix has been sauted for awhile turn down the heat under the pot for the chowda (make sure the potatoes are cooked enough) & add milk (I like no fat) & a bit of light cream or half & half, let that heat/simmer for awhile, then add the celery, onion (some scallions are good too), red pepper & garlic & add to that white or sweet corn. Replinish as needed after depleting it.
I love to add shellfish to my chowda's, shrimp, scollops, conch but not mussels, crabs or oysters, lobster's fine but lobster is best on it's own (like adding water to a good scotch). Don't boil once you've added the milk/cream. I don't use salt, there's enough salt in the clams/shellfish. For spices I use a bit of ground white (black's ok too) pepper, parsley, thyme, maybe a pinch of peperika.
Mix up a couple tablespoons of cornstach. After the chowder is heated take out some of the liquid & mix it with the cornstarch, adding a little cornstarch at a time so it'll blend smooth, when it's broken down & smooth add it all back to the broth along with some butter (1tbs) then add in your spices (spices are best added between a half hour & 15 minutes before the chowda's done)

I do miss living at the water's edge

Happy eating
Barry

03 Feb 09 - 05:51 PM (#2556523)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Barry Finn

I should say that any clams that don't open don't use, toss them, they're no good.
And I don't actually cook the potatoes with the clams. After the clams are cooked & cut up I add them back into the liquid they were cooked in & then add the potatoes. Sorry.

Barry

03 Feb 09 - 05:56 PM (#2556527)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Dan Schatz

Five fat shrimp behind his earlobes
Four fat squid with forty toes
Six fat oysters, eight fat scallops
Hanging from his hair and nose....

Dan

03 Feb 09 - 06:32 PM (#2556552)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: olddude

great recipe
It sound wonderful thank you

03 Feb 09 - 07:03 PM (#2556585)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

From the Port Angeles-Vancouver Ferry Boat
(50 eight oz servings - sized down from 300 servings)
(simple to size down further to 6 pint size servings)

Gentle on the cooking - you do not want tough chewy clams.

1 pound of bacon chopped (fried soft - not crisp)
4 pounds of clams chopped
4 large onions chopped sauted till transluscent (NOT BROWN) in bacon grease
4 stalks celery chopped sauted with onions
8 pounds of potatoes - cubed
2 Tbs salt
1 Tbs black pepper
1 gallon whole milk
1 quart heavy cream
1/2 pound butte
r 1 cup flour

Fry bacon set aside
Saute conions and celery set aside
Mix butter and flour brown and make a light carmel colored ruox
Cube potatoes - boil in one gallow water with salt tille tender to fork - add raw clams the last 5 minutes to cook.
Add milk/cream/vegitables/roux/butter

Place on low heat of back burner for one hour (200F)- DO NOT BOIL. / DO NOT SIMMER

Garnish with a steamer clam in shell, a pat of butter, pinch of parsley.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Fresh cracked black Pepper to taste before serving (adjust salt)

03 Feb 09 - 07:06 PM (#2556590)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

That is chopped Clam MEAT - not clams in the shell.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

04 Feb 09 - 12:05 AM (#2556743)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

Two good recipes. I have a couple, but they add nothing to those by Finn and Gargoyle.

04 Feb 09 - 09:58 AM (#2557025)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: GUEST,guest_olddude

HOLY COW GUYS

Barry , that is heaven in a pot without a doubt

Gargoyle, going to try yours next, thank you both

Wow

Dan

04 Feb 09 - 03:03 PM (#2557262)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Barry Finn

Glad you liked it OldDude. It's even better the next day, thanks

Barry

04 Feb 09 - 03:55 PM (#2557309)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: GUEST

A couple here:
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/recipes/a/aachowderrecipe.htm

04 Feb 09 - 03:58 PM (#2557310)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: Ed T

Sorry, last Guest was me
http://gonewengland.about.com/cs/recipes/a/aachowderrecipe.htm
,

04 Feb 09 - 08:08 PM (#2557489)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: kendall

Ok, here is a real downeast clam chowder.

Scrub live clams. Put them into a pot in about a pint of water and cook until they open. (As Barry said, discard any that don't open). Shuck the clams, chop if desired, but downeasters prefer them whole.
Let the broth stand so the particles will settle.Pour off the juice. Add enough water to make two quarts.Fry 3 or 4 slices of salt pork until crisp. Chop them and add to the broth. Chop 3 onions, 3 or 4 medium potatoes add to the broth. Simmer about 1/2 hour. Add clams. Add one can of evaporated milk, (UN sweetened)and a chunk of butter.
Tomatoes may be added if you want to spoil the whole thing. If you don't like evaporated milk, use whole milk.

05 Feb 09 - 07:41 PM (#2558507)
Subject: RE: BS: have a good NE clam chowder recipe?
From: kendall