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Oysters Rockefeller Recipe
Recipe Type: Oysters, Seafood, Seafood Appetizers
Cuisine: Cajun, Creole
Yields: 6 servings or 36 appetizers
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 minutes


Ingredients:

36 fresh oysters on the half shell*
6 tablespoons butter
6 tablespoons finely-minced fresh spinach leaves
3 tablespoons finely-minced onion
3 tablespoons finely-minced parsley
5 tablespoons homemade bread crumbs
Tabasco Sauce to taste
1/2 teaspoon Herbsaint or Pernod**
1/2 teaspoon salt
Rock Salt
Lemon wedges for garnish

* It is best to use small oyster for this recipe. The oysters themselves (not the shells) should be no more than 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Any variety of oysters will work; just make sure the oysters you choose are as fresh as possible, still alive, and tightly closed.

** Herbsaint and Pernod are an aniseed flavored spirit, available where liquor is sold.


Preparation:

Using an oyster knife, pry open the oyster shells, then remove the oysters. Discard the top shells; scrub and dry the bottom shells. Drain the oysters, reserving the oyster liquor.

In a large saucepan, melt the butter; add spinach, onion, parsley, bread crumbs, Tabasco Sauce, Herbsaint, and salt. Cook, stirring constantly, for 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Press the spinach mixture through a sieve or food mill; let cool. NOTE: Mixture may be made ahead of time and refrigerated until ready to use.

Preheat oven broiler. Line and ovenproof plate or platter with a layer of rock salt about 1-inch deep (moisten the salt very slightly). Set oysters in the rock salt, making sure they are level.

Place a little of the reserved oyster liquor on each oyster. Spoon an equal amount of the prepared spinach mixture over each oyster and spread to the rim of the shell.

Broil approximately 5 minutes or until the edges of the oysters have curled and the topping is bubbling. NOTE: Watch carefully.

Garnish the plates or platter with the parsley sprigs and the lemon wedges. Serve immediately.

Makes 6 servings or 36 appetizers.

It's pretty weird that I didn't make that connection. Hahaha...

I don't know what anything in that sentence means.

Which, I'm pretty sure, means you win.

My world is filled with people who resemble the cast of basically every Fox News program.

   Okay, you're right.

   I've been raging against your machine for years now, and I think it's time that I become an honest, open-minded person like you are...and admit what is really happening.

   I'm pretty young. Old enough that people expect things from me, but young enough that they still look down on me. And, truth be told, I've only ever said anything bad about cops, or government, or religion, or political parties, or America™, because I was angry, or wanted the attention, or never spent any time researching/ thinking for myself. I just got caught up in the liberal spin machine. All my college professors did my thinking for me.

   And, I guess, somebody did their thinking for them.

   Also...somehow I was unaffected by gun-toting, flag-waving professors. Or there weren't any, maybe. The liberal professors probably made me imagine that.

   Truth is that you're right. You can have small government that simultaneously does all these things you want it to while being both a Christian state and not a theocracy. And it's possible because YOU'RE PEOPLE (Real Americans) are good people. They have no ulterior motives and no faults that might result in any kind of failure or corruption. They are, also, entirely bribe-proof. They are the pasty, balding, Super-Men of politics.

   All cops are qualified, respectable, pure-hearted heroes. Not a single one of them could possibly just like the idea of holding a gun. Nuff' said there.

   You are right, I always knew that your religion was the right one. I'd just been fighting it because I'm young and stupid or whatever your reason was. Let me let you in on a secret. We ALL know it. Muslims, Jews, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Agnostics. None of us actually believe that shit, we're just some combination of brainwashed, angry at good, serving the devil, or stubborn, or in awe and fear of the real God (trademark of Buffalo Rock).

   Alright, I'll admit there is nothing racist about the immigration argument. "Black" and "Hispanic" neighborhoods have more crime because their skin color makes them criminal. There is nothing racist about that! No, poverty is certainly not to blame. Everyone knows capitalism is the shit. Even liberals (despite how they're always mad because we manage to work hard AND be happy. Idiots!). Thankfully we still have the innocent, father-like face of big business to guide us into a new, crime free era of Happiness™ and Freedom™.

   A small government would somehow be less crazy. No chance it would be even remotely similar to a big government. Because...less people are less susceptible to ulterior motives, or bribes, or general dickery. It grows with numbers. Science.

   And the only reason I didn't make the connections earlier is because I'm young, stupid, and have never thought for myself. Although that doesn't explain all the other, older people who pretend to dislike all these great ideas you've been vomiting all over my carpet compassionately sharing with me through your utter selflessness.

   Seriously,though, fuck yourself.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to go shove these in some people's faces, and prooooobably get myself uninvited to a lot of social events as a result.

I think that maybe what might be good would be really pro ads FOR Discordicorp, and some WOMPed up ads AGAINST. Make it seem that there is this GREAT NEW corp, AND there are CONCERNED CITIZENS opposed to the glorious capitalism of DiscordiCorp.

Brilliant, good sir.

Awesome.

All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.

If Walmart's to be involved at all (which I'd prefer not), it would be that it is a subsidiary of Discordicorp.

Hahaha...yeah that sounds better.
Still kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, though...so I think you're right.

Awesome.

All I could think of was "DiscordiCorp...A WalMart subsidiary." But I cant decide if it was more helpful or upsetting.

Just finished Down Under by Bill Bryson. Excellent as always. I have a man-crush on the man.

Next on my list: a rereading of Victoria by Knut Hamsun and Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Something Wicked is an interesting one. I always fall in love with Bradbury's concepts, and am subsequently disappointed by his actual stories. But I was a lot younger when I read it, so it might have just gone over my head. Definitely let me know what you think.

Ah, I wasn't trying to correct a spelling mistake. Non-sequitur is just a hard word.

But fair enough. My bad for messin' shit up for people, whoever they are. At no point was I made aware of my actions, previous to this thread. It wasn't me being a dick, just me being ignorant.

'Nuff said on the subject from me.

Actually it occurs to me that garbo is about your age. So im going to change my response to include "because you dont have a penis which makes people dumber"

BLAM!

Also I think Cainad is 22.  I'm actually 24, but I haven't been a non-sequitar spouting twerp since I was 18.

That seems a bit judgmental. A person can't enjoy "non-sequitors" and also be an intelligent, well-rounded individual?

</butthurt>

Twenty Two.

Also, Dok, all you really have to do is PM me and say "Hey, your non-sequitors" (which I still insist they aren't),"Are messing up some of these threads."

The way you (or, I guess, anyone) currently react(s) had not led me to believe I was actively messing something up for anyone.

I mean, if we've got Twid in here agreeing with you, I can accept that I do it...I just think that this would have been solved long ago, with less anger, if it had been handled differently.

Dok's not angry. Believe me on that.

ETA: 22 makes sense.

Yes I am.  I went to bed last night mad as hell, and woke up madder.  But not because of this thread.

No, I am angry because I care.  I'm sort of like Gandhi, only different.

I can't decide if that's horrifying or inspiring. Inspirfying, possibly.

Twenty Two.

Also, Dok, all you really have to do is PM me and say "Hey, your non-sequitors" (which I still insist they aren't),"Are messing up some of these threads."

The way you (or, I guess, anyone) currently react(s) had not led me to believe I was actively messing something up for anyone.

I mean, if we've got Twid in here agreeing with you, I can accept that I do it...I just think that this would have been solved long ago, with less anger, if it had been handled differently.

Thread killed.

Well done.

Grrrr, internet problems.

If you could write me up a list of Dok Howl pre-approved words, phrases, opinions, topics, etc., that'd be great. I don't mean to put you out or anything, but I think it'd save a lot of time and frustration on one or both of our parts.

I kid, I kid.

Sort of.

It's really simple.  Do the Seinfeld act in Twid's threads.  He likes that shit.

Sir, yes, sir.