So, I’m at the market on a dark rainy afternoon (no, really, it’s 4:30….and dark!), and wandering around in awe at all of the wonderfully amazing food choices just a decision away from my cart. I mean, really. Really. Don’t you ever just stand in gratefulness that you can pretty much have anything you want in any season you want at any time you want in any store you want? I can tell you that if we had to depend on my garden for December eating…well…there ain’t much!
Anyhow, there is a LOT of food offered that (1) I’ve never tried and (2) wouldn’t know what to do with it even if I wanted to try it. Asian food intrigues me, but their produce is beyond my knowledge of how to prepare any of it. I find Thai food amazing–in restaurants. I love the flavors of Mexican foods and yet there’s a whole lot of things in cans and packages down the “International” food aisle that I just shrug my shoulders at. Don’t even get me started on the meat department what with their livers and sweetbreads and I don’t know what-else.
So today I pondered at the fishmongers looking at all of the cases (at least half a dozen) of oyster varieties. Oysters! Those things that look like what we used to pick at off the fishing pier. The fishmonger wasn’t busy so I asked him, “are these things really any good?”
Well, a good 10 minutes of instruction, a couple of bags worth of two varieties of oysters, and a new kitchen tool later, I brought home something new to try. My husband had to crack open the computer just to figure out how to open these things properly. I figured, well, doesn’t anything with melted butter, minced garlic and a splash of white wine taste good?
I have to say the visual looked disgusting. It didn’t help matters that my 10yo son was reading and sharing all about the real, living body parts I was going to chomp down on. But still, butter and garlic….
Blessings,
Fun! A night you guys will always remember. :)My one and only time to try oysters was about 15 years ago at a hole-in-the-wall Chinese buffet. Probably not the best choice, food safety wise, eh? And no, I don't remember what they were like. Probably because I took and eeeeeety bitty bite and drowned it in soy sauce. 😉
Sorry…thumbs down here.~Eva
Did you eat them cooked or raw? I am from South Louisiana so oysters are a common ingredient in all the months containing R. Usually we leave oyster preparation up to the men as we do barbeque and boiling crawfish. Three or four men will set up at an outdoor table with their shucking gloves and tools and a 50 lb sack of oysters. We eat them raw (not me), grilled, fried and in all sorts of famous Louisiana recipes. Glad you enjoyed them.
Wow, 50lb sacks!!! We tried them raw. I have a bag in the fridge ready to steam and try in a chowder, though 🙂
I try to pick up one thing new each time I'm at the grocery store. I usually stick to the produce department though. Guess I need to branch out. And here I thought I was keeping myself out of a rut! :>)Many Blessings,HollyP.S. See ya next week!