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January 14, 2008
I want to be a soup master...
Sadly, it would be difficult around here, as Jeff is something of a soup snob (to put it mildly), and also he does not look kindly on soups without MEAT, or at least meaty broth. And yet, last night I managed to make a crab chowder that pleased everyone. I was proud. I was highly determined to make a good one (my last two attempts have been so-so), and so I pulled out all the stops - it had prosciutto, and heavy cream, and better crab than usual, lots of it. Plus a lot of corn.
Anyway, here's more or less what it was, for posterity:
I sauteed 1/2 a chopped onion and 3 cloves minced garlic in 2 tbs butter. Then after a bit I added about 1 oz chopped prosciutto and 1 small gold potato, chopped into about 1/2-in cubes. Not peeled. Then I added a bay leaf, maybe 1 cup of veggie broth, and enough water to cover everything nicely. I let that cook whilst I roasted 1/2 a package of frozen white corn in a 400-degree oven. When everything was more or less cooked (15 minutes, maybe?), I added the corn in and then used the handy immersion blender to partially puree the lot. Then I added some heavy cream... I think it was about 1/2 cup, perhaps a bit more. And turned the heat down. I used canned crab, but refrigerated canned crab from Trader Joe's - it was a big can of premium claw meat, not sure how much there was. I sauteed that in butter just to warm it up, and then had to slap Jeff's hands away from it because he wanted to eat it. Finally, I added the crab, plus a little salt and pepper (I tend to under-salt things. We all added pepper at the table).
And EVERYONE loved it.
Posted by ktingey at January 14, 2008 07:16 PM
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