Chowdah Recipes

Steps:

• Cut the shrimp, scallops, and monkfish into bite-sized pieces and place them in a bowl with the crabmeat.
• In a heavy-bottomed pot, melt the butter; add the carrots, onions, celery, potatoes, and corn and saute over medium-low heat for 15 minutes, or until the potatoes are barely cooked, stirring occasionally. Add the flour; reduce the heat to low and cook, stirring often, for 3 minutes. Add the Seafood Stock and bring to a boil. Add the seafood; reduce the heat and simmer, uncovered, for 7 to 10 minutes, until the fish is just cooked. Add the heavy cream, if desired, and the parsley. Add salt and pepper to taste, and serve.
• Warm the oil in a stockpot over medium heat. Add the shrimp shells, onions, carrots, and celery and saute for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Add the garlic and cook 2 more minutes. Add 1 1/2 quarts of water, the white wine, tomato paste, salt, pepper, and thyme. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour. Strain through a sieve, pressing the solids. You should have approximately 1 quart of stock. You can make up the difference with water or wine if you need to.

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat, then add the onion and bacon. Cook for 8-10 mins until the onion is soft and the bacon is cooked. Stir in the flour, then cook for a further 2 mins.
• Pour in the fish stock and bring it up to a gentle simmer. Add the potatoes, cover, then simmer for 10-12 mins until the potatoes are cooked through.
• Add the mace, cayenne pepper and some seasoning, then stir in the milk.
• Tip the fish pie mix into the pan, gently simmer for 4 mins. Add the cream and shellfish, then simmer for 1 min more. Check the seasoning. Sprinkle with the parsley and serve with some crusty bread.

Steps:

• In a saucepan saute the salt pork and onions until onions are slightly translucent, and salt pork is cooked. Add the rest of the veggies, and clams with juice, and clam juice. You may need more clam juice, just enough to cover veggies. Bring to a boil.
• In the meantime, in another saucepan, melt the butter with the flour and stir together. In a small cup, stir the cornstarch together with 3 tbsp of cold water. Add the half and half to the butter mixture, then add the cornstarch mixture , stir in the milk. Bring to a simmer to thicken stirring well.
• When veggies and potatoes are done , add to the white sauce mixture, and heat through.
• Serve with oyster crackers and enjoy!

Steps:

• Remove any remaining meat from lobster. See note at bottom.**Place lobster shells (the entire things, head and all) in large pot. Pour in water. Simmer uncovered for one hour. Strain and reserve liquid.
• In a soup pot melt butter. Add onion and garlic. Cook slowly until onion is tender.
• Add celery and cook a couple of minutes. Add tomato paste. Cook and stir for one mintue.
• Add flour. Stir well. Add potatoes. Stir on medium low heat for about two minutes.
• Slowly add strained stock while stirring. Simmer until potatoes are done, about 45 minutes.
• Add heavy cream and any remaining lobster meat that was removed from shells.
• Simmer for 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• **Note: To remove lobster meat from legs, remove legs from lobster. Cut of tip of the top joint (the one that was attached to the body). Using a rolling pin, start at foot of lobster and roll up across leg. Meat will be squeezed out of top cut. Thanks Alton Brown for that great tip.

Steps:

• Boil 2 ears of corn on high with a teaspoon of sugar for 8 minutes. Remove from water, cut kernels off the cob, and set aside for later.
• Melt 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) of the butter in a large heavy-bottomed stockpot. Add the onions and leeks and cook over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, or until translucent.
• Add the celery (minus the leaves), potatoes, thyme, Old Bay seasoning, salsa, Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper and saute for 10 more minutes. NOTE: I made pomegranate salsa previously, so that's what I used.
• Cook bacon until crispy, saving the grease. Pat bacon dry and chop finely, then add to the pot. Add the corn kernels and bacon grease to the pot and stir to thoroughly coat the vegetables. Cook for another 5 minutes.
• Add the seafood stock, bring to a boil, and simmer, uncovered, until the vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes. NOTE: I used a teaspoon of lobster boullion with a cup of water instead of the last cup of stock, but the ingredient list didn't recognize it.
• In a small pot, melt the remaining 8 tablespoons of butter and whisk in the cornstarch. Cook over low heat for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. The cornstarch will turn into a paste, so you may have to switch to a spatula, scraping the paste off frequently as you stir. Whisk in a cup of the hot broth and then pour this mixture back into the cooked vegetables.
• Simmer for a few minutes until the broth is thickened.
• Check the crab meat for shells and remove as necessary.
• Add the celery leaves, milk, and crab and heat gently for a few minutes. Cook until the potatoes are soft. Taste and salt and pepper as needed. Serve hot.