Of the recipe, mum once said the same thing she said about the lasagna, the beef stew and everything else she made that now I can't forget. Simple as can be. After I got married and just before she moved to Arizona, my mother sent me her chowder recipe and Jill ran it in her cooking newsletter, and once I even tried to make it for Jill. My mother died in Arizona, and sometime later my sister sent me the recipe again. I guess she wanted to make sure I had it.
Some kids get the house or a locket.
I got the chowder. Jill didn't follow this recipe when she made her chowder. She used bacon, corn, scallops and some sea bass that her father bought at a big supermarket on 135th Street. I don't think my mother would have known what to do with herself on 135th Street. But Jill's chowder had the rug on the top right on the stove.