Rocky Point clam cakes and chowder

[gillsnthrills]

I'm homesick for RI and thinking about Rocky Point and those clam cakes and chowder they served. What made it so good? And where can I get food like that on my next trip to RI?

[Td61]

here you go.... http://www.pagesintime.com/ri/seafood...

[parkslopemama]

Nothing will bring back the thrill of Rocky Point in childhood, but for clam cakes and chowder, you could try Aunt Carrie's in Narragansett. Or Captain Jack's in Matunuck.

[Alica]

The restaurant closed. They did have good chowder & clam cakes! Just found the chowder recipe on keyingredient.com. Weird, it has ground pork in it.

[gillsnthrills]

thanks Alicia! Yes I know it closed while I was still a kid. I will take a look at that recipe.

[Alica]

The park closed a long time ago but they also had a restaurant near the airport for a while where you could go for the chowder & clam cakes.

[CapeCodGuy]

It calls for ground or diced SALT pork, a common chowder ingredient. I prefer to use chopped bacon in mine, but rendered salt pork works too.

Great recipe site tho, thx!

[Alica]

I know I've heard of bacon in it but never ground pork. I don't know if it was just because i was a child when I had it but I did like it. I liked their clam cakes because they were small and not too doughy.

[CapeCodGuy]

Ground SALT PORK is more like bacon. It's got nothing to do with the regular ground pork you see packaged in the supermarket.

[Alica]

Oh that makes sense! Not too familiar with salt pork.

[mollydingle]

Youth is what made them taste so good. Good luck getting the recipe for that....

[trufflehound]

And being by salt water, riding coasters and chasing the opposite sex(or same).

[AikiLou]

Absolutely...1954... Still remember...Wednesday nights-Kiddies' Night...chowder, clam cakes, and the rides...10 years old...I will always maintain that a 50s childhood summer in Rhode Island?...nothing like it