benny's cooking blog: clam chowder with radish! 3/30/24

hello to my 51 friends so far!

yesterday, my family was gifted a huge radish by our friend Natalie, from NourishLA. this morning, i woke up and it was cloudy; raining. it was going to be a slow, lazy, cozy day inside, and i figured out how i wanted to use the radish: by putting it into a soup. but not just any soup!

clam chowder. 

nasty as hell if you make it wrong, but a filling, delicious gift if you do it right, clam chowder is worth the risk of you're making it homemade (and not, say, going to a diner where they have vats of the stuff in the back).

this isn't the recipe i used, i used Sam Sifton's, but the only real difference between his and April's is, April's is free to watch, and i like free stuff (also, i don't think all of you have subscriptions to the New York Times. you shouldn't; they don't present the real truth of things & they're mostly out for profit).

like with the Shrimpshrooms, i followed the recipe(s) pretty exactly. the only thing i did to differentiate my experience from both of theirs was; i added the radish. i cubed it roughly and added about half of it to the soup when i added the potatoes. it was a pretty simple addition to the soup, but it added a really vibrant, spicyish flavor to the mix that i'm pretty proud of.

it was a decent clam chowder.

rating: 6/10

review: it was edible, and was made even better - to the point where i was happy to be eating it - when i added salt, first, and then started dipping a piece of weird artisan bread in it. it paid off in that i didn't feel gross eating it, and it satisfied the craving i had, but i do wish there were actually more clams in my chowder. and less of everything else. except for bacon. more bacon, too. i am not that thrilled to have leftovers :/