Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Oyster Casserole
Okay, I have no idea what to call this dish. I used Joy of Cooking's recipe for Oysters Rockefeller to make some appetizers in muffin cups a while back, and they were great. This time I put a pint of jarred oysters (drained) in a shallow buttered dish and then covered them with this topping:
1 1/2 cups cooked drained spinach (I used frozen)
1/2 cup bread crumbs or panko
2 chopped green onions
4 strips crumbled cooked bacon
Salt and hot pepper sauce to taste
I put a little Italian grated cheese on the top just because, and I baked it at 400 degrees for ten minutes, then bumped up the temperature to 450 because it wasn't browning enough. The total cooking time was about 20 minutes.
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Way too lazy after the recent change from daylight savings time to do anything real fancy. I had a frozen multigrain baguette, so I served that, and I sauteed zucchini and tomatoes in the leftover bacon fat.
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I want to say that I miss the convection oven in my previous house so much! It was a wall unit, maybe 25 years old by the time we left there, and it was awesome. It baked fast, with very even browning, and everything was just a little quicker and better. It had a conventional bake setting as well, but I only used that for egg dishes that might blow up. I now have a microwave/convection oven combo and it's very scary. Anything might happen when you put something in that thing. I also have a standard electric range.
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