Oyster stew

[minoanmiss]

1 can whole oysters
1 can raw shucked oysters
2 tbsp chopped parsley
2 tbsp chopped chives
1 cup skin on chopped potatoes (I used 8 fingerlings which I cut into quarter inch slices)
1 cup heavy cream
Pinches if salt pepper nutmeg and cayenne ( go easy on the salt)
1 tbsp dried onion
1 tsp cooking fat

Over medium heat in a large [1] saucepan sauté the dried onion in the fat for a minute or so until toasted. Add the potatoes, cream, and salt. Bring to a boil [1]and simmer 10 min or until potatoes are cooked through and mixture is thickened

Drain can of oysters into saucepan and continue to simmer. Cut oysters up into size pieces you like

Bring pot to boil once more. Add raw oysters with juice and stir over heat till raw oysters firm up. Add canned oysters, herbs, and spices and stir over heat until hot enough to eat but DO NOT BOIL serve with oyster crackers. Served two. Can be doubled but see note

My first try at this was too salty but otherwise delicious and I am delighted that I didn’t overcook the oysters. Also [1]. The reason for the large pot is that heavy cream boils up high and you don’t want the pot to boil over

Comments

[bikergeek]

I'm glad you're getting to cook things like this. :)

[sovay]

Oyster stew

Yay!

My grandmother used to make an oyster stew with milk which was basically just simmering with spices; I was very fond of it.

[mdlbear]

That sounds like the kind my late wife used to make.

[ororo]

Would you like another guest appearance on my food blog? This looks amazing!

[minoanmiss]

Sure! I'll send you The Background Blurb [TM]

[amaebi]

I’m enjoying reading about the long-delayed comforts of cooking pork and mollusks in your own home.

[minoanmiss]

*beams*

[anna_wing]

That sounds delicious! I remember reading about something like that in one of Frank Herbert's Dune books. The later ones, about the Bene Gesserit. I had no idea that there were such things as tinned oysters. Dried and frozen, yes, tinned never.

You might like this recipe as well:

https://theburningkitchen.com/fried-oyster-omelette-recipe-orh-luak/#wprm-recipe-container-14073

[minoanmiss]

Thank you! I'm from Jamaica, where neearly everything is available in a tin, ahahaha.

I desperately want to make this oyster omelette. It looks amazing! Thank you so much!

[amaebi]

Wow, that sounds fantastic. And reminiscent of haemul pajon. Which is lovely.

[acelightning73]

The "old New England recipes" usually start with some salt pork or bacon, cooked until the fat is rendered out, and then saute the spices and onions and things in the salty pork fat. You can now do than with impunity, so go ahead!

[hitchhiker]

i did not know you got oysters in a can!! i might need to find some and make this

[minoanmiss]

There are three kinds I have found commercially available. More commonly they are smoked and kind of thoroughly cooked. There are also whole ones canned in water that aren't smoked first. Then there are raw shucked oysters in the fridge case in the seafood department.

Fried oysters yum yum!

[cellio]

Today I learned that oysters come in cans.

Do the canned oysters have noticeable sodium? I wonder if that's why you ended up with too much salt.

[minoanmiss]

Yeah I tasted the canned oysters and they are definitely quite briny

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