-3 Tbsp Butter or Margarine
-1/2 cup finely diced onion
-1/2 cup finely diced celery
-1 1/2 cups frozen corn
-2 Tbsp flour
-1 can chicken broth plus water to = 2 cups
-8 oz. red potatoes diced
-1/4 tsp salt
-1/4tsp pepper
-1/4 tsp thyme
- 1/2 bay leaf
-8-12 oz crab meat
-1 1/2 cup heavy cream
-2 tbsp finely diced red bell pepper
-2 tbsp finely diced green bell pepper

Melt butter in dutch oven over med heat. Stir in onion and celery; cover and reduce heat to med/low. Cook veg. 6 min. or until softened. Add corn; cover and cook 5 min. more

Stir in flour; cook while stirring 1 min. Add broth and water mix, potatoes, salt, pepper, thyme, bay leaf. Bring to boil; reduce heat to med low; cover and simmer 15 min., or until potatoes are tender. Stir crab, cream and peppers into soup; simmer

remove bay leaf

I play around with this every time I make it depending on my mood. I'll put more black pepper and crushed red hot peppers in it sometimes. Other times I'll ass corn starch if I want a thicker soup...just depends. Hardest part is getting enough crab to add to the soup. I allways eat it when shelling it.

Great timing. I was just saying last night I wanted to make some good chowder to take off the chill. This oughta' to the trick. thanks!

Ron

omit the corn or substitute with peeled potato

then add a 1/4 cup vermouth or whiskey to the pot 10 minutes before removing from heat to simmer out the alchohol.

yum

hey chucknduck thanks for the recipe

Ck-n-Dk,
Great recipe man!
I make it almost exactly like that, only difference is, Yukon Gold (smoother/creamier) potatoes, a little crushed red pepper flakes to the hotness prefered, and half-n-half in place of the water.
I know what you mean about the crab too!
But I'd slurp up a 1/2 gallon of yours any day!

The phone rang at 5:45 AM today...the wife had already left for work and I still had a half hour to kill in the fart sack. Man was I pissed off! Until the voice on the other end of the line said "better come over and get some crab". Changed my outlook on the early AM call in a hurry when it was my old dungeness skipper who had gotten blown off the water off Long Beach (what a wimp...he used to make us fish in a 20ft. swell, must be getting soft). Picked up a dozen jumbo ocean run dungies for the right price! SAY CHOWDA!!

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