Talakitok belly and corn chowder
November 19, 2009 • Hello. I am currently out of the country and unable to respond to comments and e-mails. Rest assured, however, that future posts have been scheduled so new recipes will go live almost everyday during my absence. I'll be back soon with lots of stories and photos. Ciao for now! ~ ConnieI grilled a huge fish belly for dinner yesterday but hubby came home with a mango cream pie from Red Ribbon before dinner was ready. We ended up eating the pie before dinner. Naturally, we had leftovers. Instead of cooking a new dish from scratch for today’s lunch and the kids’ packed school lunch, I decided to “recycle” the leftover grilled fish belly. Thing with grilled fish is it doesn’t reheat well. It loses its natural juices. I didn’t want to short-change the kids by sending them re-heated dry fish for lunch so I thought something with a thickish sauce would be good. I had half a bag of frozen corn kernels in the freezer, some white onions and plenty of butter. A chowder seemed like a good idea.

So, what is a chowder? Dictionary.Com defines a chowder as “a thick soup containing fish or shellfish, especially clams, and vegetables, such as potatoes and onions, in a milk or tomato base.”
For a detailed description of the fish known in the Philippines as talakitok, click here.
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Some related discussions...[...] fillets with corn sauce. I’ve done a chowder version of that dish in the past and I called it talakitok belly and corn chowder. It was good, no doubt, but I discovered that if the flour and butter based sauce is replaced with [...]