Here's something you can eat while watching Super Bowl 2011 next week.
Ingredients:
1 quart milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 bay leaf
3 stalks celery, finely chopped
Salt and black pepper
1/2 teaspoon monosodium glutamate
1/4 pound butter
4 Tablespoons finely chopped shallots
4 dozen oysters and liquid
1 bunch parsley, chopped fine
Cayenne pepper to taste
Procedure:
1. Simmer milk and cream with bay leaf, celery, salt, pepper and monosodium glutamate.
2. In another saucepan, melt butter.
3. Add shallots and cook until soft.
4. Drain oysters reserving liquid.
5. Add oysters to butter and shallots and cook until oysters curl (very short time).
6. Combine with milk, oyster liquid, parsley and cayenne.
7. The celery may be simmered whole with the milk, then discarded along with the bay leaf.
