Oyster stew in five minutes

We had “garage sales” twice this last weekend. On Friday we went to Twin Falls and on Saturday we went to garage sales in our little berg, The capital trout of the universe.

Trout farms here produce trout just like Hershey® produces Hershey Kisses®.

We partake of some of those trout every year at the annual Fish Fry put on by a local Boy Scout troop. My wife and I collect tickets and money at the door of others who have decided that fried trout is better than cooking dinner. The scouts serve us trout while we help them out.

This year, I tried to get some people to buy a flagpole so I could give those profits to the scouts as well, but no one was thinking of flagpoles, they came for trout.

One thing I miss in Idaho is seafood. The closest you can get to seafood is at Sizzler® in Twin Falls. They have salmon and you can buy little shrimp skewers to go with it. Somehow that’s not the same as a good seafood restaurant in Cape May, New Jersey, or Philadelphia. We don’t even have a Red Lobster®.

You can also buy fresh crab meat at the local store on rare occasions. When it’s available, I grab a few packets and throw them in my freezer to use later. I am addicted to crab meat tortillas.

On Saturday, I was chatting with a lady at her yard sale when she told me, “It’s Saturday, so everything is half price. I looked at a bottle of spices and put it back because it was a dollar, which is against from my garden.” -sale religion price-for-spices.

When he said it was half price, I grabbed the bottle and gave him the four bits.

The spice is Beau Monde Seasoning from Spice Island®. It says on the label that you can add it to dishes like oyster stew to boost flavor instead of adding salt. I read the label and it is salt with added sugar like dextrose, onion, celery seed and tricalcium phosphate.

How can it be, the words oyster stew put me in a trance

My wife, who always knows what I’m thinking, said, “Maybe you can get some oysters at the local market.”

I rushed in there, not expecting to find fresh oysters or anything resembling fresh oysters, but there might be a substitute.

Our little grocery store only had canned oysters. The cans were the same size, about half the size of a can of corn, and the store brand was 10 cents cheaper than the other two brands. Reading the labels, I decided that they probably all came from the same factory in Korea. I bought the red can because I thought it was pretty. Also, the oysters were already boiled.

that’s called scientific analysis.

The oysters were somewhat slimy looking, some were greenish in color, but they were definitely oysters.

They weren’t like the nice oysters that come in jars that you can buy in Twin Falls at a big market.

Anyway, here is my recipe for oyster stew.

Oyster stew in five minutes

Ingredients

1 can of chicken broth

1 can creamy soup (I wanted to use cream of mushroom soup but when I got home from the store I found that we were fresh out of it. I used creamy broccoli cheese soup. Thought it would be too strong a flavor for oysters but I was wrong. No add a can of water or milk with the soup).

1 can of boiled oysters. If you buy fresh or other raw oysters, I suggest you first fry them with a little butter and a clove of garlic. It will only take a minute or so. (Don’t buy canned oysters if you can get the real thing. Canned oysters taste good, but they’re too slimy for me, at least the ones I bought.)

1 can of mushrooms (fresh mushrooms are always better but take more work)

1 can of sliced ​​potatoes

1 can of sliced ​​carrots to give a nice color to the stew

Beau Monde seasoning; or salt, sugar, onion and celery seed (forget tricalcium phosphate)

Process

Drain all the cans except the soup and chicken broth, of course.

Throw everything in a pot and bring to a boil. (Of course you can add a clove of garlic if you want).

Attend

I discovered that there was no need to age this oyster stew. The flavor was there from the beginning.

My wife doesn’t like oyster stew or anything she knows

I ate the whole thing in two sittings.

Hey, it’s good!