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    toughest female movie hero's

    in Ramble On

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    I didn't see it, but what about that Jennifer Garner movie from a few years ago? I'm blanking on the name though.

    I think you mean her Electra movie. But if you're talking about her TV show then it's Alias.

    Uma is good but I think I'll go with Jolie's movies :)

    What Made You Happy today?

    in Ramble On

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    That sounds really good. My friend is an excellant chef. I however am just about hopeless in the kitchen. What flavor was the cake?

    Jen

    It's a chocolate cake with walnuts.. I forgot to mention I put caramel on top of everything :D Oooooh, I just love sweets :rolleyes: I'm sometimes a cook in our house!

    The Recipe Thread

    in Ramble On

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    A quick overview of new england clam chowder i make.

    Clams (little necks and top necks)from the local bay, dug by me or my dad from scotts beach, a big sand bar right by jones inlet on the south shore of long island. At high tide, this bar is covered by four feet of pure salt water from the ocean...they happen to be some of the best clams around.

    steam and dice clams, save steamed juice.

    steam in a deep pot, like two inches of water, or beer...make sure they are open and steamed to point where the whole clam falls out of the shell. I usually stir the bottom clams up and are removing the the opened clams with tongs, putting them in the sink. Then pulling the clams out of the shells, in a bowl and then sitting down with some music and dicing the clams...can be time consuming, usually atleast an hour, but i'm talking about a 6 gallon bucket full of little necks/top necks.

    Clam juice. Pour clam juice into a bowl, leaving the bottom amount of juice with silt/sand in it, in the pot and discarding that.

    Add clam juice to a pot and keep it boiling low, until you add the rest of ingredients.

    peal and dice potatoes, about 6-8 depending on size

    put potatoes in the boiling clam juice, cook for 10-15 minutes while you prep the other stuff.

    adjust the heat alittle higher, you want to cook the potatoes.

    dice three or four onions, depends on size of onions

    add them to the pot

    celery and garlic

    fry a half a package of bacon, dice and add to pot

    oh yeah, sorry, i fry the onions, celery and garlic in some of the bacon fat...then add to pot.

    save some of the bacon fat.

    add a stick of butter to the pot, or half a stick, depending on how many clams your working with.

    add about two quart of heavy cream, or a quart and a pint...depends on how many clams you have, it cant be too creamy otherwise you wont taste the clam flavor. But its got to be thick enough to be a chowder. Mine is usually brothy, because i use a lot of clams and juice. But if your buying them at five dollars a dozen, then you have to make sure you dont overdo the heavy cream.

    add some of the bacon fat too.

    add the diced up clams and cook on low heat boil for another 20-25-30 minutes.

    with clams, you either under cook them or cook them well, otherwise there is this in between rubberyness with them. like with linguini and clam sauce, you can open them up raw and throw them into the sautee at the end, for like 3-4 minutes and their good. If you were to use canned clams, which i wouldnt reccomend, but you should buy atleast a quart of clam juice as well and cut back on the cream and butter. You might only find quarts of clam juice at fish markets, not supermarkets...so while your there just buy some fresh clams and canned clams and clam juice as well. The juice is the most important thing in flavoring the whole pot of chowder. If your buying clams, then you can go with the cherry stones or chowder clams, the larger clams. They are cheaper, you can also cut the bellys out of the bigger clams, but with the smaller clams you doesnt really matter.

    some recipes add some thyme or rosrmary, but with super fresh clams...there is no need.

    Keep it simple.

    Two bowls of this is a meal...its heavy heavy soup.

    maybe some good bread toasted, or add some crackers....thats it!

    Wow! I think this is yummy but it has a lot of work to do.. Oh well, got to try this :rolleyes:

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