Pickled Okra

[kthompson]

Egon,
steamed or roasted oysters are big here. I will tell you for myself they are a mood food, must be in that mood for them. It is amazing the people who will pick them up and open them totally cold and eat them. Oh well, just thinking of it fills me up. kt

 

[scgargoyle]

The very best oysters are ice cold on the half shell! I don't eat 'em any more due to health risks.

I love okra in many forms, and the hot pickled ones are great! I've never canned my own; we just stew 'em with tomatoes and corn. The tomatoes seem to absorb the slime.

 

[Egon]

Fried oysters I like but have never heard of steamed oysters. My world is quite small.

 

[Bird]

The very best oysters are ice cold on the half shell!

I rarely eat oysters anymore and my wife won't eat them at all. But I really liked smoked oysters, fried oysters, and oysters in the Cajun Stew. Now I've eaten raw oysters on the half shell, with and without sauces, barbecued and Italian oysters (warm, but still raw with barbecue sauce or tomato sauce), but eating them raw just always seemed like a terrible waste of good oysters to me. The "best" raw oysters were those taken right out of the bay, popped open and eaten with a minute of coming out of the salt water; still a bit salty from the water from which they came.

 

[tallyho8]

From the oyster capital of the world comes this advice: Char-Broiled oysters are the best!

I enclose a famous recipe from Drago's Restaurant.

Ingredients
1 lb butter
2 Tbs. finely chopped garlic
1/2 tsp. black pepper
3 dozen oysters on the half shell
3 Tbs. grated parmesan and romano cheese
1 Tbs. chopped parsley

1. Mix butter with pepper and garlic.
2. Heat a gas or charcoal grill and put oysters on the half shell right over the hottest part. Spoon seasoned butter over the oysters, then sprinkle a touch of grated cheese and parsley on top.
Oysters are done when the sides puff up.

I added the next part:
Next day jog 3 miles to lose weight gained by eating oysters.

 

[Bird]

That certainly does sound mouth watering good.

 

[Egon]

I was hoping the steaming or barbecuing would eliminate the shucking.

 

[dmccarty]

Fried oysters I like but have never heard of steamed oysters. My world is quite small.

Now I am getting hungry.....

My cousin and I used to go to a place in Orlando. It just had a U shaped huge bar with the shuckers in the middle. Each of use would start with a pitcher of beer and a bucket of oysters. Usually steamed. YUMMY. We would get through at least a couple of buckets.

They used to make this thing called a Rooster. Take a cracker. Put the smallest ittiest bitty oyster the shucker could find on the cracker. Then top the cracker with horse radish 1/4-1/2 thick. Then turn the horse radish RED with hot sauce. Guess it was called a Rooster since you would crow when you ate the thing and when it came out later.

I do like raw oysters from time to time.

Our grocery store has shucked raw oysters in the meat department. They are cold and the must be pasturized or something since they have a shelf like in weeks not days. I buy some every once in awhile, bread them and fry them up outside. They don't make it into the house. A little lime/lemon squeezed on them hot out of the oil. YUM YUM.

Not sure how those oysters get the long shelf life but they were VERY good. Briney.

Later,
Dan

 

[Egon]

Yesterday I was craving pickled stuff. Made a Trip to the grocery store and found some canned okra.

It was soft but was eatable. I believe it may not have been a true pickle.

 

[Bird]

Not sure how those oysters get the long shelf life but they were VERY good.

I have no idea about the shelf life. I've helped my Dad harvest oysters on the Texas coast, but we always shucked them, cleaned them, and froze them the same day unless we were also going to eat them that day.

I used to have a brine recipe for smoking salmon, and I used that same "brine" for shark, sheepshead, and even oysters. I used to leave the oysters in that brine overnight, then I'd put aluminum foil on the racks and punch it full of holes with a fork, and spread the oysters on there to smoke them. A smoked oyster on a cracker makes very good snacking.