{"id":1143,"date":"2017-02-10T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:40:52","slug":"fish-chowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Fish Chowder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Tommy used to make amazing fish chowder. \u00a0Back in those days, it was usually made with the fish that he actually caught (often Walleye). \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been fishing since I was a teen so I won&#8217;t be making it with fresh fish anytime soon. \u00a0 Today I used frozen fish (Haddock works well, Alaskan Pollock, and I\u00a0tried it today with Tilapia). \u00a0Tommy died a few years ago, so I got the recipe from my cousin Tim since he also has made it in the same manner as Tommy. \u00a0 So here it is (roughly). \u00a0It makes a big pot so judge accordingly if you want to make a half batch etc. \u00a0The trick to getting the creaminess is soaking a couple of tubes of soda biscuits in condensed milk. \u00a0Don&#8217;t try to cut corners and use regular milk &#8211; it will not produce the same texture, it&#8217;ll be watery and nowhere near as good.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/y.yarn.co\/4ba896c9-9d4d-4987-ad8e-1c07c8665b1c.mp4\" width=\"467\" height=\"300\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2\u00a0medium onions<\/li>\n<li>5 lbs of raw diced potatoes (about 3\/4&#8243; cubes)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>About 2 lbs of whatever fish you want\u00a0to use, cut in 1&#8243; pieces<\/li>\n<li>2 cans condensed (unsweetened) milk &#8211; you can use 3 if you want it milkier<\/li>\n<li>2 tubes of soda biscuits (I used salted)<\/li>\n<li>About a litre of water<\/li>\n<li>A little oil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Preparation<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>In a large bowl, dump the contents of\u00a0soda biscuit tubes and cover with the condensed milk. \u00a0Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>In a large stock pot, saut\u00e9e\u00a0the onions in the oil. \u00a0When they&#8217;re translucent, add potatoes and enough water to cover them by about an inch. \u00a0Boil potatoes until they&#8217;re almost cooked (about 20 min.). \u00a0Add fish and salt and boil until cooked (about 5 min.). \u00a0Carefully add condensed milk and soda biscuits to the stock pot and heat for 5 min. on low heat (you don&#8217;t want to scorch it!). \u00a0Serve hot. \u00a0I like to garnish with bacon bits but it&#8217;s not necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin Tommy used to make amazing fish chowder. \u00a0Back in those days, it was usually made with the fish that he actually caught (often Walleye). \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been fishing since I was a teen so I won&#8217;t be making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-soupsandstews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elainecarroll.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}