Great chowder. . . Cook the veggies in oil first and in a seperate small pot, combine the milk and cheese and pour it over the veggies when both are done. HOLD OFF ON THE CORN till you put the seafood in!!! Corn is already cooked and has the tendency to settle super fast and SCORCH. Trust me, its better safe than sorry to just do this and save your chowder. . . And just to save you some time as far as shopping for all the seafood. Look at around at all your local stores in the butcher department. Some have a premade seafood combo and some nice gents even make one up for you. Its a lil less costly and beats having to get 5-6 different packages of seafood at a time. . .

Can someone clarify....to make this recipe do you precook the shrimp and then shell and devein & then add to to the pot....same with the crab? Thanks...I'm anxious to try this. I had to just choose a rating although I've not made it yet!

Excellent seafood chowder. Tried many different combinations (including replacing calamari with lobster meat). The most popular by far: no carrots, 1.5 pounds bay scallops, 1 pound shrimp ... no other saefood. Popular with everyone, requested often by friends and family.

This chowder was easy to make and turned out great. I used whole milk instead of fatfree and cream of shrimp instead of cream of mushroom. Turned out fantastic.

This was excellent chowder ! It rivals a chowder that I used to get at a local restaurant in Connecticut. The only thing I would change next time would be to leave the pepper and cayenne out. I am originally from the Southwest and love spicy food but this was a bit much in the chowder with all of the good seafood. We also added more crab meat in place of the calimari. All in all, we will surely make this again soon. Kudos to KerryLynn1 !

Great chowder, very thick and hearty. This recipes makes quite a lot, I had to serve it to my co-workers to finish up the left overs. But, they didn't seem to mind! I used frozen corn, and added clam juice, white wine, and mushrooms. When I make it again, I will try to substitute the cream of mushroom for a cream of shrimp, just to add more of a seafood flavor. I will add Old Bay Seasoning, too.

Very good! I also substituted canned corn for frozen. I used canned clams and poured the juice into the chowder. For seafood, I used fresh sea scallops, fresh haddock, fresh salmon, fresh calamari, frozen pre-cooked shrimp, and canned baby clams. Excellent Recipe. We'll definitely make this again.

awesome

This tastes rich, I feel guilty eating it. I subed green onions for sauted yellow and canned corn for frozen. I added white wine and more milk than called for and I only used shrimp. This is easy and good!

I added mushrooms and doubled the potatoes. Had to add more milk and soup to compensate. I couldn't find calamari, so I added oysters and crawfish instead.

I made this for BUNCO night. It was a hit with the ladies. I made a change though. I used 4lbs of shrimp and omitted all the other seafood. It made the chowder more economical because shrimp was on sale ;-).

GREAT recipe. I left out the calamari just because there is A LOT of seafood called for. Awesome! Any seafood lover will love this.

This was wonderful!! It made a lot and I'll probably cut the recipe down a little. Also used more milk (fat free half/half)then the recipe called for.

I like to cook healthy and this recipe was excellent. It was rich, creamy, full of flavor -- while being low in fat, and full of nutrition! I didn't change much from the original recipe. My boyfriend loved this too. Good work.

Awesome-- but I would lower the cayenne pepper down to 1/8 tsp-- I found it to be alittle to spicy for me.

Excellent flavor for such an easy recipe! Used low fat ingredients in place of non-fat, frozen corn instead of canned, and clam juice for corn water. Heating mushroom soup and cream cheese together first and wisking is a better way to blend. I didn't watch soup carefully enough and it boiled causing the soup to brown on the bottom. This worked to my advantage because the brown flecks disguised the mushrooms which my husband ordinarily won't eat - ha, ha! He asked me to cut the pepper in half next time.