Re: [CH] From PaulK "The NorthEast ChileMan" RE: Chowda
RisaG (radiorlg@yahoo.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry it has taken so long to reply to this.
I just saw my name in the notes to the recipe.
I think that most recipes call for 10 oz cans of
condensed soup (I never see them in larger cans around
here). I would've used 10 oz cans.
I also would cook the onion and flour mixture until it
has no lumps and let it cook awhile after the liquid
is included - and cook it until the mixture thickens.
You must cook the flour taste out of the mixture.
Otherwise, since I wasn't there, I really can't say
what you did wrong, Paul.
Email me privately and let me know what you did.
RisaG
> 1 Medium-size onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
> 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine
> 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
> 3 cans condensed chicken broth
> 3/4 cup dry sherry
> 2 cans (about 6 ounces each) lobster or crabmeat,
> drained & diced
> 3 cups light cream or half-and-half
> 2 tablespoons tomato paste
> salt & pepper to taste
>
> Sauté onions in butter in a large saucepan. Stir in
> flour; cook until bubbly. Gradually stir in broth;
>cook until thickened. Stir in sherry and
> lobster. Cover; simmer 15 minutes. stir in remaining
> ingredients: heat.
>
> Basically I doubled the recipe & ran into a problem.
> The recipe does not
> state size of condensed soup cans & when I added 6
> cans of broth, I had a
> really nice pot of plaster of Paris. Off to the
> grocery store & bought a
> bunch of non condensed broth & added it to the paste
> until it was creamy.
> Maybe RisaG can jump in here & tell me if doubling
> the flour was wrong or if
> I was suppose to use large cans? Of course I added
> 12 Aji Limon off a plant
> JohnT sent me, at the onion sauté part, chopped. At
> this point I need to add
> that I doubled the balance of remaining ingredients
> , meaning the lobster,
> light cream & sherry to compensate for the size of
> the pot of thinned paste
> I now had. Didn't seem to impart too much heat to
> me but wife said it was
> inedible, not a Chile-Head my wife.
>
> Thank-you Jim & Abby for one of the highlights of my
> life! Jim, don't forget
> your suppose to get me a couple of 2003 posters,
> please.
>
> Thanks to all I met for a wonderful time! Jeff for
> the powder, Hasta la
> lista, Jesse G., George, Scott, Dan, Karen & Stu,
> Cameron, Hobby farmer &
> wife (thanks for letting me use your range, don't
> think the Lawbsta Bisque
> would have been quite the hit it was cold) &
> everyone else I've either
> forgotten due to alcohol or don't remember. Oh &
> Karen Stober & escort...
> See, forgot his name...
>
> Oh yea, & Alex... Barefoot boy with cheeks of
> tan....
>
> Until I get my puter up,
> Paul
>
>
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