13degC, yet another sun-less day, 2:08pm.
I simply must share our culinary adventure last night with you guys. Yes, you! The one reading this right now :D Thank you for reading my humble blog :D
Anyway, my darling hubby has always enjoyed a good bowl of chowder but often, chowder is made with chunks of bacon in it. But there are places that we have been to that do their chowder bacon-less and darling hubby loved it!
So sometime last week over dinner, darling hubby talked about using grilled corn to make corn chowder. And then his creativity juices started to flow … he suddenly stopped and said "seafood chowder!"
I did a quick Google there and then and found The Barefoot Contessa's Seafood Chowder recipe. I read it out loud and darling hubby and I looked at each other - we can do this!!
Now The Contessa made her own seafood stock; we decided to do the same this past Sunday, with a little tweak here and there. Ms Garten used only prawn shells but we added the head of a linc cod to ours. And a few dashes of smoked paprika.
I simply must share our culinary adventure last night with you guys. Yes, you! The one reading this right now :D Thank you for reading my humble blog :D
Anyway, my darling hubby has always enjoyed a good bowl of chowder but often, chowder is made with chunks of bacon in it. But there are places that we have been to that do their chowder bacon-less and darling hubby loved it!
So sometime last week over dinner, darling hubby talked about using grilled corn to make corn chowder. And then his creativity juices started to flow … he suddenly stopped and said "seafood chowder!"
I did a quick Google there and then and found The Barefoot Contessa's Seafood Chowder recipe. I read it out loud and darling hubby and I looked at each other - we can do this!!
Now The Contessa made her own seafood stock; we decided to do the same this past Sunday, with a little tweak here and there. Ms Garten used only prawn shells but we added the head of a linc cod to ours. And a few dashes of smoked paprika.
The beginnings of a beautiful pot of stock :D
After an hour of simmering, we let the stock cool down just a tiny bit so that we can double-strain the contents of the pot. We got 2 containers of good seafood stock (32 fl oz each) … and we couldn't wait to assemble the chowder …
Home-made Seafood Stock!
Now we thought that we would only make the chowder sometime later this week but we realized we couldn't wait that long hehehe so last night, darling hubby grilled some fresh corn while I prepped the rest of the ingredients for the chowder.
It all begins with sautéing onions, carrots, celery and cubes of potato!
The variety of seafood in the chowder was wonderful too - prawns, scallops, crab meat and huge chunks of linc cod! It didn't take long too (thank God!) and once the fish were cooked, we fixed our bowls for dinner :D
Darling hubby's Seafood Chowder in Bread Bowl. He liked his this way :D
While I prefer mine in a good ol' real bowl hehehe
Whether you like your chowder in a glass bowl or a bread-y kind, it doesn't matter really. I just love to eat my chowder or stews with a crusty French loaf - its just so good to be able to dunk warm bread into that wonderful broth/gravy *smacks lips*
We made enough chowder last night that we're going to have the same tonight. It is so good that we are looking forward to it again hehehe try it. You won't be disappointed.
Here's the link to The Barefoot Contessa's amazing Seafood Chowder: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/seafood-chowder-recipe.html
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