I was so anxious to try this chowder that it was absolute agony to wait 4 hours! I scaled the recipe ingredients waaayy back. Here's what I did. I cooked a small chopped onion in some bacon grease and a bit of butter. I also added a few slices of bacon. I used 2 cans of cream of potato soup, one of clam chowder, and 1 cup of half and half. I added 3/4 cup of milk (ran out of 1/2 & 1/2) and since i had some leftover cream of chicken soup I threw that in too. This may sound weird but I don't like my chowder overally "fishy" so I did not add the extra can of clams. This fit in a 8X8 baking dish and I had enough to confortably feed 4. This tasted great, like something you'd get in a restaurant. Fantastic.

I loved this chowder! I made it for four people, and reduced the margarine and half & half used. I also added water in with the condensed cream of potato soup, because everything was altogether really thick. The recipe came out beautifully!

Here it is summer...and im making this again...

I would never have tried this recipe except for all the good feedback...I did have to alter it a little since I wanted to cook it in the crock pot instead of the oven. I chopped up some celery along w/the onion and used bacon drippings instead of margarine. I added a pinch of thyme like I read in anothers review... I cooked it on low for about 8 hours and don't add the half and half until one hour before finshed. If you do then it will curdle. the easiest and best tasting clam chowder I have ever made!

This was great! Everyone but my picky son ate and enjoyed. My little girl asked for 2nds! I did scale down the recipe to 6 servings and I cooked all day on low in the crock pot. I added one stalk of chopped celery, a pitch of thyme and a few sprinkles of parsley. What an easy dish to prepare that tastes totally homemade!

Excellent. An easy recipe with tasty results, which can easily be adapted to meet your family's tastes. Served with crusty bread or a toasted cheese sandwich, this provides great comfort food on a cold winter's night. Very well done!!!

I just made this recipe. It is excellent!!! Very easy to fix. I added some bacon to the sauteed onion for a little bite of flavor. I will definetly make this again.

Wonderful easy recipe! I made it in the crock pot and cooked on low for the day on New Years Eve. It was ready for our "munchie/salad/soup" dinner! I absolutely recommend this dish!

This soup was pretty good but a bit too creamy for our taste. The recipe did make a lot of soup. I used my smaller roasting pan and had to bring out the big one because it would not fit everything into it.

I must say this is the best clam chowder that has ever come out of my kitchen! Tastes like restraunt quality but really easy to make!! However, I think this makes more than 10 servings, I had to use my LARGEST roasting pan just to hold all the ingrediants. Can't wait to make again! Thanks Becky!

I made this chowder last Christmas Eve and everyone thought I had "slaved all afternoon" making it! It drew raves.

tried this recipe and i absolutly loved it so did my husband i am funny about clam chowder and there are all kinds out there in resturants and personal recipes and i find this to be the best ever and i have searched for sometime now and have been cooking since well for a while believe me! Try it sure you will agree!!!!!!!

I made this for my soup club at work. It was delicious and loved by all. I served it with oyster crackers.

I made it for a soup party and had great reviews, many people asked for the recipe. I was a little concerned about using all the canned products, you couldn't tell there was a bunch of canned soups put together. Very easy.

This was really good. The recipe pared down to feed 6 would still feed the masses. Great recipe for a crowd. Will make again.

This recipe is great. Living in Maine it is hard to please these experts, this recipe is impressive!

Tasty soup kind of expensive to fix I thought.

This is an AWSOME soup. Everyone raves when I serve it. :)Thanks