MANHATTAN CLAM CHOWDER AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE.

March 5, 2008

What a day! Can’t believe it got this warm. Believe it or not I believe it got into the high 70°s.
Pretty hot for this area this time of the year. Did a lot of general maintenance around the motor home. Was able to find a propane connection for a quick hook up to my small barbecue. The propane tank hoses however, are something else. Everyone knows the fittings for propane are weird and even though some of the fitting have the same thread they will not work with the different type of available fittings. Another one too cuss at.

Really it was indeed a general clean up to put away some fishing stuff that was sitting on the picnic table out side along with our crab traps and other junk. Darn too good of a day to do any work around the motor home, but it had to be done. Oh well, better days down the road.

I decided this was going to b the day to cook up my cockle clams for a Manhattan style clam chowder. I have not eaten one in at least 45 years. Well, for some reason I kept thinking it would taste better. I guess when you get older your taste changes. It really did not have the flavor I remembered, but at least I did get the chance to try it again. From now on going to stick to the old standby, New England style. As everyone is aware the Manhattan style uses tomatoes, where as the New England uses the cream.

Now maybe somebody out there has a good recipe for the Manhattan style. If so let me know would love to get a good recipe. The one I got was off the Internet and not really that great. The recipe I used had carrots and bell peppers, which I really did not think the original Manhattan style had.