How To Make Lobster Chowder

Posted on Witch's Today by: Chelsea Sutherland

Picture the leaves outside changing colour, the days are getting shorter, you notice it getting colder based on your breath coming into shape in front of you. The bugs go quiet, the birds start to migrate, people begin to prepare for the next three months of intense holidays. In this scenario, you’re just a kid and school starts next week. The world is new to you, you have no worries. Mom and dad take care of everything so you can be a kid.

That’s what I go for when I make my recipes. I try to make them . . . nostalgic. Perhaps it’s because my mother taught me to cook at a young age and the memories of baking, the thoughts of love, they go into my cooking making it special.

Served with a small salad and a glass of pinot grigio, my dish, Rigor Venenum, is the perfect warm meal for the start of this autumn season. Homemade lobster chowder that makes anyone go back for seconds! And it has a little something special for the people you hate.

Finding the right lobster is not important. I get my lobsters from my backyard. My house sits by a beach which just so happens to be a lobster jackpot! And maybe I bred lobsters and made them invasive here, but I catch and cook and sell, so . . . no big deal?

If you don’t have a lobster breeding pen, fret not! Just go to your local shop and buy any fresh lobster or lobster meat. I think any lobster meat is fine as long as it’s the claws and body meat and not the tail; for soup, tail meat lacks the flavour I desire.

Before making Rigor Venenum, you must know that you cannot use this on someone you hate out of envy or pride or lust. This recipe is for the people that hurt you, the people that tore you down to nothing. That is why I made this recipe in the first place. I don’t want to see my recipe used for destruction.

Twenty years ago, a man I thought was my soulmate, murdered my daughter. She was crying late one night, and I guess that’s what broke the camel’s back. He smothered her with a pillow. I was at work; I was a nurse at the time, I didn’t know until I got home. My daughter was sickeningly silent. She was dead in her crib.

My husband cried, he apologized, told me that we could have another.

I told him, okay.

I sat him down and cooked his favourite meal, lobster chowder. With my recipe, I set him free. I buried my baby daughter and my husband on the same day. Yes, I blamed him, but I loved him. I didn’t know what to do. I know that my mother would have killed him out of anger, when I did it out of love.

Sometimes cooking can be boring, tedious, but the gift of watching people, people you love, awe at your food and go for seconds . . . it’s irreplaceable. And with my recipe you won’t get bored. 

Starting the recipe, I soak ten ounces of lobster meat (no tails!) in a bowl of milk while

I prepare sliced celery and carrots to sauté in a pan of butter.

Then, after about four minutes of sauteing, I reduce the heat to low and let cook for about five minutes, to which I then add vegetable stock.

I wait to add the milk I remove the lobster from before I add potatoes and let simmer for thirty minutes. At the end I season the soup with thyme, salt, and pepper.

I let the lobster simmer for about ten minutes in the pan before serving.

This next part may be a little tricky, but Rigos Venenum is the perfect meal for any novice witch, or baby witch, whatever you want to be called, because it is so easy. Of course, you can use this meal for other spells, but I prefer lobster chowder for this particular spell because that's what I used. And the stronger the meaning of something, the stronger the spell will be.

For instance, my Rigos Venenum would be boring, plain, chowder if it wasn't for the thought I put into cooking. Make sure, while cooking, that you think nice and hard about who you're making it for and why you're making it for them.

Also, don't think of it as killing someone, think of it as helping someone. Let's say a rapist or serial killer. No one wants to talk about how they're just ticking time bombs or rotting in a cell, and that they need to be put out of their misery. Or maybe the cops let the rapist serial killer out and the only way to get justice is to give them to Gods!

Anyways, to start the spell, you want to put your chowder in front of a blessing totem; I got mine from a store called: The Witch's Pawn, if you don't have one of these stores near you, you can take a lemon and open it so there's a slit, take the lemon guts out and replace them with frog's breath.

Then, you let your prayers be answered. The blessing totem sends a message to Maquila the goddess of death, which she blesses your meal with a kiss of life (obviously, the name is counterintuitive). If she knows you have good intentions, then there should be no problem, but if you have the opposite . . . don't.

The Rigos Venenum can take effect from one hour to three days, if it takes more than three it didn't work, and you'll have to start again. But know that if you do it on someone who doesn't deserve it or you had bad intentions, you can risk being stuck in limbo for eternity after you die.

I recommend doing research on Sabult Gods and what each one does before trying to interact with any. I myself am a pro and I know who and what each God does. Love. Death. War. Life. Law. And Power There was a seventh one, but that one . . . never mind.

At this point, it's done. I like to add Pinot Grigio and a bowl of salad on the side. I make my own wine, but store bought is just as good! (I have a separate recipe for my wine if you want to check it out).

If you liked my recipe, please send me feedback and tell me your thoughts!

Ingredients

10 ounces of claw and body meat

1 stick of butter

1 cup of chopped potatoes

1 cup of chopped celery

1 cup of chopped carrot

2 cups of milk

2 cups vegetable stock

Half a teaspoon of thyme

A teaspoon of salt and pepper