With New Years parties just around the corner, I thought I’d provide a recipe that’s easy and starts to fulfill my offer to create recipes around your favourite food combinations. Susan Kirk, who claims to be queen of bizarre food pairings, suggested oysters and mascarpone cheese. Oh, I love a challenge!
I’ll be honest with you. You’ll either push your grandmother out of the way to get more or run screaming from the room with your nose in the crook of your elbow. This is a more decadent variation of the dip my mother and sister gobble until they burst. It can’t be genetic. I flee the kitchen the moment they open the smoked oysters.
Anyway, for Susan and all those who love smoked oysters, here goes:
Love It or Leave It Smoked Oyster Dip
Printable recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tin smoked oysters, drained and finely chopped
- 4 oz (1/2 cup) mascarpone cheese
- 4 drops Tabasco sauce
- 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce (Lea & Perrins is the best)
Instructions
- Mix Tabasco and Worcestershire sauces well into the mascarpone cheese.
- Fold in drained and chopped oysters.
- Serve with plain crackers and a side dish of clothes pegs for those with sensitive noses.
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Sounds scrummo. I’ll make it up this week and report back!
Do you have a recipe for Oyster Bisque which does not require clam juice?
@john marett, I’ve actually never made oyster bisque before but will see what I come up with. I’ll email you privately if I find anything!
Oh yeah! I’m a smoked oyster fan. Will make these tonight
to snack on, when I get back from work. Thanks
Take my share, please! Funny how you either love this or can’t be in the same room with it. At least we won’t fight over who gets the last bits at the bottom of the bowl.
Hope you like the recipe! My mom and sisters can’t get enough of it.