"corn chowder" news and stories

Corny may mean "tiresomely simple and sentimental," if you listen to Webster's dictionary, but in the book of late-summer fields, it means "give us more." In our second corn feature of the week, creamy corn chowder goes creamless with soy milk, soy cheese, and even soy yogurt in a vegan chowder recipe from vegalicious. Jalapeño chiles spice up this mellow soup, made with sweet corn and roasted sweet peppers, and topped with a cilantro-cream(that's where the yogurt comes in). And if you want the full-throttle creamy version, try this jalapeño corn chowder recipe from Kitchen Daily.

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Anyone who says the bacon craze is over clearly doesn't love bacon as much as we do or is, at the very least, unaware of all the ways bacon enhances our culinary world. And it's impossible to imagine any omnivore in his or her right mind hating on bacon when staring down at this bowl of cheddar corn chowder topped off with what blogger Ezra Pound Cake calls "God's confetti."

While the "hearty, creamy, comforting soup brimming with potatoes, corn, onions and sharp white-cheddar cheese" is enough to make anyone's mouth water, it's really the bacon on top that makes this Ina Garten recipe even more enticing.

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'Corn chowder' salad. Photo: Brent Ridge, Beekman 1802.

Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell are the farmers and innovators behind Beekman 1802, a 200-year-old estate and farm in upstate New York. We'll be running recipes, gorgeous photos and tales from the farm as their crops come into season.

We can almost taste the sugary goodness of our sweet corn already. Those poor non-gardeners have no idea what true corn should taste like. Even when purchased in a farmers' market, it's never at its peak. Sweet corn begins converting its sugars to starch from the moment it's picked. Some estimate that 80 percent of its sugar is converted within the first four hours.

So only we gardeners can truly sing the praises of our ears. While it's hard to improve upon the near-perfect taste of corn on the cob with a little salt and butter, we think we've come pretty darn close with this "corn chowder" salad.

Recipe and a bit about our heirloom corn, after the jump.

Photo: Susan Filson/Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy

What you're looking at may very well be the platonic ideal of crab and corn chowder. Note the massive chunks of crab, the bounty of fat yellow kernels of corn and a creamy broth whose surface is speckled with little pools of chili oil. Made and photographed by Susan Filson of the appealingly named Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy, it looks like the perfect antidote to summer's swelter: If the dog days are getting you down, fight them off with a bit of crab.

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The recipe, which was cut out of some random magazine and stored in my recipe box for years, said: "Creamy Chicken and Corn Chowder." But really, it is much more Thai and less of a classic chowder, so I've dubbed it Thai Chicken and Corn Chowder.

This recipe will give you rich, creamy flavor that seems like it took hours to prepare, but actually took no time at all. Better yet -- most of the ingredients can come from your cupboard, which makes it ideal for last-minute meals, and a lot cheaper than take-out. This is the sort of dish that you can whip up on a whim and be glad that taste doesn't always come from hours at a hot stove.