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corn chowder

n. chowder containing corn

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Corn chowder

Corn Chowder is a type of thick cream-based soup or chowder similar to New England clam chowder, with corn substituted for clams in the recipe. In addition to corn, it often contains other vegetables, such as potatoes.

Some people serve corn chowder as a vegetarian alternative to clam chowder.

Usage examples of "corn chowder".

Qwilleran merely sampled the corn chowder, ate half of his portion of roast beef and broccoli parmigiana, declined a Parker House roll, and ignored a glob of mush flecked with green.

Lunch was choice of corn chowder or jellied consomme, cheese souffle, fried chicken, corned beef and cabbage, hominy grits with syrup, egg plant au gratin, little pearl onions scalloped with cucumbers, baked stuffed tomatoes, sweet potato surprise, German-fried Irish potatoes, tossed endive, coleslaw with sour cream, pineapple and cottage cheese with lettuce.

Nora was in the kitchen, making corn chowder, a big pot of corn chowder, because Tom loved her corn chowder, and she was baking chocolate-chip cookies with pecans because Bob loved those cookies too.

I resort to waving our waiter over and ordering the cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugula Caesar salad and swordfish meat loaf with kiwi mustard, even though I already ordered this and he tells me so.

Crotts, a patent-medicine drummer, held forth on various nostrums throughout the corn chowder, the baked bluefish and halfway through the raisin pie.

Dayne decided on the clam and corn chowder for an appetizer, fresh blackened trout, and stuffed potato.