I am not a great cook, but this is a very easy, heavenly recipe that I highly recommend. I used frozen crawfish instead of calamari.
Seafood Chowder


Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 45 Minutes
Ready In: 1 Hour
Servings: 8
"A creamy chowder full of flavor! Of course regular ingredients may be used for those not watching their waistline."
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups fat free milk
1 (8 ounce) container fat free cream cheese
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 (26 ounce) can fat free condensed cream
of mushroom soup
1 cup chopped green onions
1 cup sliced carrots
1 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn,
undrained
1 1/2 cups chopped potatoes
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
1/2 pound shrimp
1/2 pound bay scallops
1/2 pound crabmeat
1/2 pound calamari tubes
1 (6.5 ounce) can chopped clams
DIRECTIONS:
1. Place 1/2 cup milk, cream cheese, and garlic in a large pot over low heat. Cook and stir until blended. Mix in soup, green onions, carrots, corn with liquid, potatoes, parsley, and remaining milk. Season with black pepper and cayenne pepper. Simmer 25 minutes. Do not boil.
2. Mix the shrimp, scallops, crabmeat, calamari, and clams, and continue cooking 10 minutes, or until seafood is opaque.
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I think I just run into the secret to cream of tomato soup. I have several recipes & I like them but they just are not the cream of tomato soup I have at this truck stop. I think maybe it is the "cream cheese" I think that is the secret to their soup. I cannot wait to try it out tomorrow. (We are in for a blizzard tomorrow, the second in a week & I'm ready for it.)

I'm going to try this recipe for seafood chowder may not use all the seafood items but the recipe really looks good. Thanks bamajen.