Oyster Stew

[SeniorCoot]

Around the Holidays one of the local widow ladies brings in Fresh oysters from Gig Harbor,Wa.--This year we got a 1/2 gal and are the super--big boys-- great fresh but on Sat i made Oyster stew for family--
first i diced some celery,onions,and pot quite small and sauteed them in butter- then I added 1/2C of water and 1/2 of oyster liq.--cooked it for 10 min or so and then added 1 can of evap milk and heated it almost to a boil--then I added oysters and liq-seasoned in with a bit of gumbo seasoning,seasoned salt, bl Pepper,oregano leaves,and chix base--cooked it till oysters curled--man was it good!!

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Around the Holidays one of the local widow ladies brings in Fresh oysters from Gig Harbor,Wa.--This year we got a 1/2 gal and are the super--big boys-- great fresh but on Sat i made Oyster stew for family--
first i diced some celery,onions,and pot quite small and sauteed them in butter- then I added 1/2C of water and 1/2 of oyster liq.--cooked it for 10 min or so and then added 1 can of evap milk and heated it almost to a boil--then I added oysters and liq-seasoned in with a bit of gumbo seasoning,seasoned salt, bl Pepper,oregano leaves,and chix base--cooked it till oysters curled--man was it good!!

You know Ralph, I've put myself up for adoption before, I'm tempted to do so again!

Alan

[Bill Gunn]

My Mom was from South Portland Maine, and that was one of the things poor people were FORCED :rolleyes: to eat during the Great depression in the 30's because Oysters were cheap.

Years later she would feed it to us 6 kids, and I always loved it. My Mom gave her recipe to my wife, and I still get it now and then, and I still love it.

Bill

[SeniorCoot]

Bill- Your post reminds me of other things we always ate/did/enjoyed with family during the holidays- and that's part of beauty of the Holidays. my aunt(97 this week) presently lives in BlueHill Me. when we visit we gorge ourselves on great fresh seafood/shellfish
Alan- you got gun/birds?? Might make a deal-BWAAAA

[Bill Gunn]

when we visit we gorge ourselves on great fresh seafood/shellfish


:D :D Me Too... I've woke up at 2am in Maine with my body YELLING "NO MORE LOBSTER !!! :p :p

[Bushman]

Gorging and lobster don't ever get into the same sentence around here. It was one of Sweetness's favorite foods and the kid developed a taste for it too. I learned this deer season that my buddy has never even tasted it. I must correct that on my next trip up there. The only time that I actually gorged on it was down in Honduras on a scuba diving trip. Those were warm water lobsters though and my preference runs toward cold water lobsters. Not much in the center of one of those critters though. Both ends are good, but that center just fills out the platter.

[SeniorCoot]

Them no claw things are Spiny Crabs not Real Homard Americanus-that's why they be called Lobster tails rather than lobsters--OK but way way over priced- if I have them I like Aussie tails.

[Bushman]

What's a Rock Lobster then? I was having that conversation with a waitress once about her Australian lobster. She said that it was cold water lobster, but any water that I saw there was very warm. Maine lobster, now that is what I call cold water lobster, correct?

[SeniorCoot]

They used to call all Lobster Tails, Rock Lobsters--Now they do not seem to-i agree never saw/felt any cold water in Australia excpet at reefs of Cairns where it felt awfully cold one windy breezy day in their late fall.
i also never have seen much warm water in maine even in summer. ya i'd say maine water is COLD.esp.

[tincan]

Bill- Your post reminds me of other things we always ate/did/enjoyed with family during the holidays- and that's part of beauty of the Holidays. my aunt(97 this week) presently lives in BlueHill Me. when we visit we gorge ourselves on great fresh seafood/shellfish
Alan- you got gun/birds?? Might make a deal-BWAAAA

I worked on a Honda commercial in Blue Hill maybe 22 years ago- a guy there owned a store and everyone in his family had a Honda.

We ate well there:)

On the subject of family- years ago when my brother, ten years older than I, was married about a year, our father had him and his wife move in with us to save for a house down payment. That only made one extra person in the house, my dad had a good job, money wasn't a problem, but with one extra mouth to feed (a smallish one at that), my mother immediately went into full-bore Great Depression mode- potato omelets, hash and eggs, lots of "meal stretchers", etc.

I guess you could take a person out of the Depression, but not vice-versa...

Pretty good eatin', too:)

[Bill Gunn]

I guess you could take a person out of the Depression, but not vice-versa...



God, if that ain't the truth, as soon as my Mother came home from the store, all the Ivory bar soap came out of the wrappers "To let it harden up so it lasted longer". When I was a kid EVERYTHING was rationed out like we were in boot camp.
I remember like it was yesterday, when my father first made $10,000/YEAR ($5.00/HR.). My Mother thought we were millionaires, and I thought we'd be eating "Rainbow Stew" from that day on....

Nope..... and the rationing didn't slack a bit :p

I love her, what a great Mom...

Bill

[Bushman]

Wiener water soup?

[Greywolf]

that's exactly why clams have a "foot".
To tie the string to, while making clam chowder poor man style.
Keep that one clam happy (:D) and it'll feed you for months.

[Bill Gunn]

When ever we had pie, cake or (about once a year) ice cream, one of us 6 kids got the job of doing the cutting.

Bad part was that all others in the family got first choice of the piece they got.
At first we'd all gather around lookin' for the slightest slip of the knife.
But It got so it wasn't so much fun no more, we all got so good at cutting that there wasn't any more than 1/2 grain difference in any one piece...
Dad always got the bigin' anyways :D :D