Seafood Chowder

We've been digging through our pictures and realized that we had a number of cooking attempts that we had forgotten about. The first of these was our attempt at making seafood chowder. After picking a relatively basic recipe, we set out to go to Carrefour (the local grocery store in Toulouse) to hunt down the ingredients. Using our basic knowledge of the French language we managed to scrape together most of the ingredients (crossing our fingers for some of the items that we had bought hoping they were the right ones).

Another note, we must apologize for the quality of the pictures the lighting was not the greatest and we had the bare minimum of equipment in the kitchen!!

Ingredients
A few strips of bacon cut up
1-2 Tablespoons of Butter
2 Large Onions
Seafood (shrimp, mussels, small scallops, unknown fish (make sure to pick a firm one))
2-3 Large Potatoes
1/4 Cup Flour
1 Teaspoon Thyme
4 Cups Half-Half
Salt and Pepper to taste
Fresh Thyme

Steps
1. In a large pot fry the bacon
2. Mix in the butter and onions till soft
3. Add 2-3 cups of seafood stock
4. Mix in flour slowly
5. Add potatoes, thyme and salt and pepper. Cook till potatoes are soft
6. Add seafood and simmer for 10 minutes
7. Mix in the cream and heat (don't boil)
8. Enjoy!

This was based off a recipe we found on the internet but we were forced to make a few adjustments with the ingredients we could find.

Seafood Chowder

Verdict:
A simple recipe that turned out great! Not much more to say!!