Render down some double-smoked bacon, and then sautee finely chopped onions and celery in the grease. Add a bunch of canned chopped clams and bottles of clam juice and bring to a boil. Add a bay leaf, some dried thyme, and a fuckton of ground black pepper. Add a few cups of 1/4 inch pieces of cubed potato, simmer for about 40 minutes, and then put in a couple dozen scrubbed little-neck clams. Boil until the clams open. Eat the shit. With motherfucking Jameson, obviously!
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Bustednuckles
May 18, 2009 at 12:09 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Dude, that sounds AWESOME!!
chezjake
May 18, 2009 at 8:28 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Just the way I remember it. A most excellent chowder.
A minor variant, to be used only in late summer. Peel, seed and dice just two dead ripe garden fresh tomatoes and add to chowder at same time as whole clams. This is *not* anything like Manhattan chowder.
ambivalent academic
May 18, 2009 at 11:08 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yum! I’m totally gonna make that tonight. I’ve got some celery with no previous designs on it and I’ve been itchin’ fer some shellfish. Thanks for the recipe!
Fixer
May 18, 2009 at 6:33 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Fap, fap, fap …
Lab Lemming
May 19, 2009 at 6:53 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What’s the point of decorating with a few clam shells if you’re using shit out of a mother fucking can? If you want chowder, get your self a couple of 30 year-old 6 inch quahogs fresh off the docks.
Comrade PhysioProf
May 19, 2009 at 6:55 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Can you go to the dock for me and get me some motherfucking quahogs?
Emily
May 19, 2009 at 8:16 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I don’t want to be the one to have to tell you this but – your napkin and placemat don’t match.
Just sayin’
Lab Lemming
May 20, 2009 at 6:41 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Can you buy me a plane ticket to North A-fucking-merica?
Otherwise, it’s cuttlefish chowder.