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I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
good.

In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
cornstarch.

My thoughts a
1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.

Check it out and see if you agree:

http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/
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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
> been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
> I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
> good.
>
> In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
> the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
> chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
> cornstarch.
>
> My thoughts a
> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
>
> Check it out and see if you agree:
>
> http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/


I don't know what it is supposed to look like but it looks very pretty to
me)



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On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 07:30:14 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
>been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
>I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
>good.
>
>In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
>the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
>chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
>cornstarch.
>
>My thoughts a
> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
>
>Check it out and see if you agree:
>
>http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/


This is what I go by. (very loosely, really just to make sure I don't
forget something You just need to adjust for the food item you are
featuring.)

CHOWDER BASICS

1 tablespoon vegetable oil or extra-virgin olive oil,
2 tablespoons butter
2 all-purpose potatoes, peeled and diced
2 ribs celery, chopped
1 small red bell pepper, seeded and diced
1 bay leaf, fresh or dried
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
(1 tablespoon Old Bay seasoning blend, -- if you are making a
fish/seafood chowder, otherwise use something like Lawry's or make up
your own seasoning)
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups vegetable or chicken stock or broth
1 quart whole milk
3 cups corn kernels, scraped fresh from the cob or, frozen kernels
8 ounces cooked lump crab meat, fresh is available in plastic tubs at
many fish counters

Optional:
4 small bread boules, 6 inches, hollowed out, preferably sour dough,
optional

Toppings:
Oyster crackers
Hot cayenne pepper sauce
Sliced scallions

Heat a deep pot over moderate heat. Add oil and butter. As you chop
your veggies, add them to the pot: potatoes, celery, onion, and red
bell pepper. Add bay leaf to the pot. Season vegetables with salt and
pepper and Old Bay seasoning. Saute veggies 5 minutes, then sprinkle
in flour. Cook flour 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in broth and
combine. Stir in milk and combine. Bring soup up to a bubble. Add corn
and crab meat and simmer soup 5 minutes. Adjust the soup seasonings.
Remove bay leaf. Ladle soup into bread bowls or soup bowls and top
with oyster crackers, hot sauce and sliced scallions.

Saute onions first until translucent, saute all vegetables until
tender. Probably should use ½ pound bacon. Only use ½ red pepper.
Just a pinch of red pepper flakes. Maybe 1 teaspoon of thyme.
Definitely do not use so much flour

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On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 07:30:14 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
>been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
>I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
>good.
>
>In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
>the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
>chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
>cornstarch.
>
>My thoughts a
> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
>
>Check it out and see if you agree:
>
>http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/


I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
cream just before serving. When I make chowder I add Carnation Evap
milk just before the end. I have an old Newfie recipe and fresh
milk/cream was not readily available, hence Carnation. They used it
for their coffee and tea as well. The finished product does not taste
of evaporated milk, it simply tastes creamy.

Did you make this?
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> Gary wrote:
> >
http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/
>
> I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
> cream just before serving.


They did add only 1/2 cup to 4 cups chicken broth.
>
> Did you make this?


I decided to wait until I got a few more ingredients. As I said
originally, the recipe sounds pretty good and I'm going to make it
exactly this time. I don't see any problem with taste.

My only deal is.....using that exact recipe, there is NO WAY that
chowder will look like the picture they showed. It's way too white
for the ingredients used. It looks like cold breakfast veggie cereal
with tons of milk poured over it.

I'll take a pic of mine when I make it and compare. Their pic was way
too white and also a bit too soupy for a chowder, imo.


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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
> been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
> I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
> good.
>
> In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
> the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
> chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
> cornstarch.
>
> My thoughts a
> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
>
> Check it out and see if you agree:
>
> http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/


Looks like milk soup. Yuk. I think this comment on the website might
explain it - the recipe changed but the picture didn't?


"Oh - the recipe changed a bit after I typed my comment, lol - please
disregard the bit about the heavy cream"


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On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:31:20 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
> been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
> I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
> good.
>
> In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
> the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
> chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
> cornstarch.
>
> My thoughts a
> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
>
> Check it out and see if you agree:
>
> http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/


Well, it looks like they slicked the half-and-half and cornstarch mixture
over the top, added some corn, bacon and potatoes, and photographed it.
One of those potato wedges is perfectly clean; it has never been mixed
in with the chowder. A lot of the corn is suspiciously pristine, too.

I don't do slow cooker stuff very often, but I'd expect about that
amount of liquid, not only the chicken broth and half-and-half, but
from all of the veggies and meat. Not everybody thinks of chowder
as something you can stand a spoon up in; consider Rhode Island
clam chowder, which isn't thickened at all.

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On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 8:51:01 AM UTC-6, wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 07:30:14 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> >I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
> >been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
> >I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
> >good.
> >
> >In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
> >the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
> >chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
> >cornstarch.
> >
> >My thoughts a
> > 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> > 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> > is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> > Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
> >
> >Check it out and see if you agree:
> >
> >http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/

>
> I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
> cream just before serving. When I make chowder I add Carnation Evap
> milk just before the end. I have an old Newfie recipe and fresh
> milk/cream was not readily available, hence Carnation. They used it
> for their coffee and tea as well. The finished product does not taste
> of evaporated milk, it simply tastes creamy.
>

Adding evaporated milk is trashy.

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On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:11:37 AM UTC-10, MisterDiddyWahDiddy wrote:
> On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 8:51:01 AM UTC-6, wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 07:30:14 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >
> > >I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
> > >been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
> > >I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
> > >good.
> > >
> > >In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
> > >the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
> > >chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
> > >cornstarch.
> > >
> > >My thoughts a
> > > 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
> > > 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
> > > is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
> > > Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.
> > >
> > >Check it out and see if you agree:
> > >
> > >http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/

> >
> > I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
> > cream just before serving. When I make chowder I add Carnation Evap
> > milk just before the end. I have an old Newfie recipe and fresh
> > milk/cream was not readily available, hence Carnation. They used it
> > for their coffee and tea as well. The finished product does not taste
> > of evaporated milk, it simply tastes creamy.
> >

> Adding evaporated milk is trashy.
>
> --Bryan


That's like a heroin junkie saying drinking coffee is a bad habit.
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She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop.
So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group.

-sw

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There you go - a reason for you to buy yet another gun and ammo.

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Only because you cower there in mortal fear of being booted by the admins.

You're _done_ here virus, I mean really done.





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On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 11:58:36 -0600, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 07:30:14 -0500, Gary wrote:
>
>> I'm going to make some chicken corn chowder from scratch today so I've
>> been looking at various recipes just to get an idea of ingredients.
>> I'll often look at several then pick and choose ingredients that sound
>> good.
>>
>> In this one recipe, the ingredient list sounds good but the picture of
>> the finished product looks odd. For liquid, it calls for 4 cups of
>> chicken broth and at the end, a mere 1/2 cup of half&half mixed with
>> cornstarch.
>>
>> My thoughts a
>> 1) The pic of the finished chowder does NOT look very good.
>> 2) Using 4 cups of chicken broth and 1/2 cup of half&half, there
>> is NO WAY it's going to look like that when done.
>> Looks like they dumped 1/2 gallon of milk on the vegetables.

>
>The majority of recipes on websites do not match the accompanying
>photos. A lot of cookbooks even use stock photos of dishes that look
>close to the recipes they're supposed to depict - they don't even
>bother to make and photograph the recipes. Some "author" just collect
>recipes form the Internet and then the editors and publishers just
>plug in stock photos. A couple of cookbook "authors" have told me
>this.
>
>A lot of recipes just are not photo-worthy - especially soups.
>
>-sw


I was working for a commercial photographer years ago (long before
photoshoppe) and he was doing a picture of chowder for a can label. He
wanted it to appear steamy so when he was set to click I would draw on
a cigarette, put a straw in my mouth and blow the smoke down into the
chower in a pretty bowl. He got his pics as the smoke popped out. If
you didn't know, it looked like the steam was coming off the chowder.
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>lucretiaborgia wrote:
>> Gary wrote:
>> >http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/

>>
>> I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
>> cream just before serving.

>
>They did add only 1/2 cup to 4 cups chicken broth.
>>
>> Did you make this?

>
>I decided to wait until I got a few more ingredients. As I said
>originally, the recipe sounds pretty good and I'm going to make it
>exactly this time. I don't see any problem with taste.
>
>My only deal is.....using that exact recipe, there is NO WAY that
>chowder will look like the picture they showed. It's way too white
>for the ingredients used. It looks like cold breakfast veggie cereal
>with tons of milk poured over it.
>
>I'll take a pic of mine when I make it and compare. Their pic was way
>too white and also a bit too soupy for a chowder, imo.


To me it looks like the Half & Half is floating atop the chicken broth
prior to cooking... mayhaps if you give it a stir. hehe I'd make it
in a pot on the stove top... why wait eight hours when you can cook
that in under an hour (and taste as you go). If not certain you'd
like it prepare a 25% batch on the stove top first... if you love it
then you can double the recipe... if not so good then you only have
one mugful to choke down. I can do much better with no recipe... I'd
season it with saffron, and garnish with green onions, I'd definitely
omit the bacon or that's all you'd taste.... needs a little red and
green bell pepper too, make look Christmasy.
I don't much care for creamed soups, I'd prepare a Chinese style hot
and Sour soup with with the addition of corn and chicken. There's a
Chinese restaurant I went to that served it, it's very good and I'd
prepare my own versions too.
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"Gary" > wrote in message ...
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>> Gary wrote:
>> >
http://damndelicious.net/2015/10/15/...-corn-chowder/
>>
>> I will try it sometime soon lol I think probably they added some
>> cream just before serving.

>
> They did add only 1/2 cup to 4 cups chicken broth.
>>
>> Did you make this?

>
> I decided to wait until I got a few more ingredients. As I said
> originally, the recipe sounds pretty good and I'm going to make it
> exactly this time. I don't see any problem with taste.
>
> My only deal is.....using that exact recipe, there is NO WAY that
> chowder will look like the picture they showed. It's way too white
> for the ingredients used. It looks like cold breakfast veggie cereal
> with tons of milk poured over it.
>
> I'll take a pic of mine when I make it and compare. Their pic was way
> too white and also a bit too soupy for a chowder, imo.


That does look oddly white, and thick. And weird. Such as the pieces of
corn and bacon on top that look pristine.

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She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
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So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
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She should call the cops. I've already publicly admitted it is me so
a conviction should be a piece of cake and then forging would stop.
So what's stopping her? I think she suffers from Bovism - she just
loves the attention and drama and screw the rest of the group.

-sw

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