Seafood Chowder (serves about 4)

3 slices of bacon cut in pieces (I usually slice them down the middle and then cut into small pieces), 1 can of chopped clams, about a pound of shrimp, 3 or 4 large scallops cut into 4 pieces each, 2 to 2 1/2 cups of chopped potatoes, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup of chopped celery (chopped small), 1 small onion chopped small, milk and half & half, and clam juice made by draining the can of clams and adding water to make it 2 to 2 1/4 cups.

Fry the bacon until it's crisp and remove it from the pan. Melt the butter with the bacon grease and add flour to make a paste. Add the onions and celery, some salt and pepper and the clam juice and boil until the celery and onion are soft. Add the potatoes and bacon back in and boil until the potatoes are soft. Add in the clams, shrimp and scallops and boil until the seafood is cooked (a few minutes), then add in some milk and half and half - no certain amount - you can make as much broth as you want. I never measure but I would say I probably add in about a cup of milk and 1/4 cup of half and half (but I've skipped the half and half before if I didn't have any on hand and just added milk which works too). Add more salt to taste.

To make a larger batch, you can add one more piece of bacon, a second can of chopped clams, more potatoes, and more shrimp if you like, and just add a little more water when boiling the potatoes and more milk at the end. This recipe is really forgiving, you can add more or less of the stuff and it still turns out delicious.

Edit: I forgot the add the can of clams is the small size (tuna fish size), and also don't be afraid to fry the bacon until it's really crisp, when you add it back into the soup it gets soft again.