Seafood Chowder

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 cups chopped yellow onions
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1/2 cup diced carrot
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper
• 4 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
• 4 cups clam juice
• 3 cups tomatoes
• 1 1/2 pounds new potatoes, quartered
• 2 cups fresh sweet corn kernels
• 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh parsley
• 4 pounds raw assorted cleaned shellfish, (medium shrimp, shucked oysters, crabmeat, diced lobster meat, whole mussels and clams, etc)
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley leaves