Although I frequently remark that a wonderful steak doesn't require much more than salt and pepper, this creamy blue cheese and bacon sauce certainly doesn't hurt. It begins with a base of butter-caramelized onions, which intensifies their savory-nutty flavor and gives the finished sauce weight.
True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack - Andrew Well
However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us. But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh, sweet friends! hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuit, and salted pork cut up into little flakes; the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt. - Moby Dick
What Herman Meville describes here is a very famous New England dish - the clam chowder. A chowder is "a soup or stew of seafood (such as clams or fish) usually made with milk or tomatoes, salt pork, onions and other vegetables". Whilst there are different types of chowder, clam chowder is undoubtedly the best known. The definition of chowder varies depending on the part of the country, but most contain clams, potatoes, onions and some form of pork. Some use milk or another type of broth, but this type of dish was very popular on board ships where it was cooked and served in different ways. According to Savouring Gotham: A Food Lovers Companion to New York City, it is believed that New England chowder was introduced to the region by French, Nova Scotian or British settlers and became a common dish in the region around 1700. The chowder grew in popularity over the years and, according to What's Cooking America, was served in Boston as early as 1836 at Ye Olde Union Oyster House (the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the country).
But let's get to the recipe so you can cosy up at home with your copy of Moby Dick and enjoy a nice serving of clam chowder.
What do you need:
1 small onion
1 kilogram of salted pork
2 medium potatoes
1 1/2 cups of water
1 tin with about 200 grams of mussels
1 bottle with about 350ml mussel juice
1/8 teaspoon of pepper
1 1/2 cup of milk
To prepare:
cut the meat into pieces of about 2.5c and brown in a pan over a medium heat. Then set aside.
chop the onions and fry them in the pan, in the meantime cut the potatoes into small pieces and add them to the onions, cover with water and cook until the potatoes are soft.
add the mussels and their juice and season with pepper. Cook over a medium heat until they are steaming.
Add 1 1/2 cups of milk. Heat over a medium heat for 5 minutes.
Add the meat and serve. Best eaten with ship's biscuits or fresh bread, if available.
Our brand-new totally normal campaign is set on an island sea town called Weirdtown, not too far off from Mt. Bauhaus the townspeople unlike Vundabar have evolved to be "normal" where nothing bad ever happens!
The party plays students of Weird Academy, each tied to the string of fate that keeps the town afloat. They will discover a prophecy hidden below the sand as a dark storm approaches.
This campaign will be equal parts roleplay/school shenanigans/tourists/sea monsters/and clam chowder! We will be premiering this Saturday at around 4:30 pst on Twitch !!!!! If you want live updates consider joining the discord !!! Other than that have a good day fishsticks!
Vegetarian/Vegan "Clam" chowder recipe and extra tips
Tried a new recipe today! Vegetarian/vegan "clam" chowder.
It came out tasty, though the potatoes became the main star more than any sort of fishy flavor, because I used 4 large potatoes instead of medium ones. I probably also didn't cut them into small enough cubes. :P
Be sure to stir it a lot once you add the milk, because I did end up with a burned film at the bottom.
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[I love her clam chowder, so I figured to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. FIERI: Now, I originally stopped by for dinner, but what I didn't know is that]