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2 tablespoons butter
\n1 tablespoon vegetable oil
\n2 slices bacon
\n1 medium onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
\n3\u00a0 cups\u00a0 diced red potato (1\/2 inch cubes)
\n3-4 ribs celery, chopped (about 2 cup)
\n1\/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
\n4 teaspoons OLD BAY\u00ae Seasoning
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\n4 teaspoons Zatarans\u00ae Creole Seasoning
\n1\/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
\n1 Bay Leaf
\n1 quart chicken broth
\n1 pt fat free half and half
\n1\/4 cup flour (I use Wondra\u00ae flour and thicken as required)
\n4 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels
\n12 ounces lump crabmeat<\/p>\n
Directions:<\/p>\n
Cook bacon until crispy. Remove and crumble when cool.
\nSaute onion, and red pepper until potatoes are tender.
\nAdd potatoes and spices and saute three minutes.
\nStir in milk and chicken broth.
\nBring to boil. reduce to a simmer.
\nCook until potatoes are tender.
\nAdd corn and crabmeat.
\nReduce heat to low; bring to a simmer
\nAdjust salt
\nAdd flour to thicken to desired consistency.
\nSimmer for 5 minutes.
\nRemove and discard bay leaf.<\/p>\n
Serve with oyster crackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This Sunday’s soup: Corn and Crab Chowder. The nice thing about this one is that it’s fast, as well as tasty. All in all, this came out pretty well…but I didn’t get it as creamy as I’d like, and using canned crabmeat just isn’t worth it. Not that it kept us from going back for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,27,28,14],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soup","tag-chwder","tag-corn","tag-crab","tag-soup-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This Sunday’s soup: Corn and Crab Chowder. The nice thing about this one is that it’s fast, as well as tasty.<\/p>\n