I was inspired to make this by
Jimmy Buffett's "Boomerang Love" (the story, not the song), wherein
"Angel... stirred the oysters into steaming hot milk. She added some fresh
chives and a few shakes of Tabasco
sauce to cook up a simple, delicious oyster stew."
Of course, I couldn’t do anything
quite that simple, so I added chopped onions & celery sautéed in butter…
Ingredients:
1 ½ pints whole milk
2 8 oz cans whole boiled oysters –
do not discard juice
½ c chopped onions
¼ c chopped celery
1 T butter
dash of cayenne (I loathe Tabasco but use it if
you wish)
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Sauté the onions & celery in
butter until tender.
Heat milk in saucepan until hot
but not boiling.
Add oysters, juice, onions,
celery, cayenne, salt and pepper. Cover and turn off heat.
Allow to sit for about five minutes for oysters to warm.
The most spectacular oyster stew
I ever had was at one of the airport hotels in Charleston, SC (I forget which one) which
served it with several fried oysters floating on the top. But that’s definitely
getting away from simple…
