Smokin' Oysters? (and other seafood?)

[cayenne]

Hi all,

Well, I live down here in New Orleans...and our 4 seasons of the year here are :
1.Shrimp
2. Crab
3. Crawfish
4. Oyster

Well, its oyster season now....and I'm trying to figure if smoking oysters would work? I like to get with my friends, and get a sack of oysters...approx. 120 lbs...for about $32.

When we have a shucking party...we like to do them all ways...usually lots of raw as we shuck...but, I've done toppings with cream cheese, spinach and red pepper flakes (and other things I grab).....and a real crowd please, Char-Grilled Oysters. This is the best so far...you shuck the oyster, and leave it on the half shell.

You make a sauce of butter, worcestershire, lots of garlic, rosemary, and black pepper. You bathe the oyster in the shell with this sauce, top with parmesean cheese, and set the shell on a very hot charcoal fire...just let it heat till the lips curl up. Even people that don't eat oysters like this one.

So, my first thought was to try to recreate Chargrilled Oysters, but, in the smoke chamber....

Any other preps ya'll can think of?

Also, I don't see much around the forum about smoking different fish...Salmon would be an obvious choice...but,what about others?

Back when I lived in AR...I came up once with cleaning some catfish, and throwing them whole on the weber smoker I used to have..just scraped the meat out, mixed with sour cream, cream cheese and some capers as a spread..that was pretty good.

Anyway...any other good oyster/fish smoking suggestions, recipes or techniques?

cayenne

[brdbbq]

Cayenne,
I never ate a lot of Oysters. But I got to know one thing. Do they really put lead in your pencil ?

[cayenne]

Cayenne,
I never ate a lot of Oysters. But I got to know one thing. Do they really put lead in your pencil ?

Yup....Nature's Viagra...
:-)

Actually, there is a bit of truth to the myth of oysters being an aphrodisiac (sp?)....I believe it has to do with the concentration of some of the trace minerals in them like zinc, which plays a part in the sexual cycle....

[brdbbq]

A guy from LA with a furry tongue that's eats Oysters.....Got to be a Lady Killer

[tommykendall]

Mary makes some knock yer dick in the dirt good crab stuffed bacon wrapped smoked shrimp.

So good he won't even post the recipe :cry:

[BigBelly]

Dude, please post the recipe for those stuffed shrimp please, anyone! Those sound absolutely awesome!

[tommykendall]

Dude, please post the recipe for those stuffed shrimp please, anyone! Those sound absolutely awesome!


Look what I got going. Hehehehe :twisted:

[kcquer]

Dude, please post the recipe for those stuffed shrimp please, anyone! Those sound absolutely awesome!

Check the "Bash Bites" comments on the Home Page!

[tommykendall]

Crab, Shrimp and smoke don't get along

[cayenne]

Crab, Shrimp and smoke don't get along

I dunno....I think you just have to go a bit lighter on the smoke and/or use a mellower smoking wood for seafood like shrimp/crab.

One of the restaurants down here do a fantastic signature dish with smoke and softshelled crabs.

They take them raw...and do some kind of light 'cold smoking' of them...then, prep them as a normal soft shelled crab...seasoned, coated with seasoned cornmeal and flour...and deep fried. Man..talk about good.

I have also thought over this...and thinking of maybe trying some kind of variation on an old New Orleans traditional dish...Oysters en Brochette....original is basically raw oysters, wrapped with bacon, skewered on metal skewers, and either battered with wet or dry batter..and fried.

I'm thinking maybe something like that smoked for a bit, then either coated with seasoned cornmeal and fried...or just taken from the smoker to the grill side and quickly cooked...maybe with some kind of hot/sweet sauce?

[BBQchef33]

I have tried.. and tried.. and tried....

seafood dont smoke well.... unless you ROAST at higher temps, but low and slow just dont cut it.. If I were you. I would stick with the grill. I have done shrimp with a real hot fire in the firebox and stuck them in the hot spot. Thats was OK, and they were done in a few minutes....but still bettter grilled.

The stuffed shrimp recipe TK spoke about we labeled shrimp bombs case we smoked them instead of grilling them and there was nothing we can do to make them edible. Grilled theyre great.

You need some Juimp shrimp and som echicken tenderloins poiunded thin and sliced just wide enough to wrap around a shrimp. Marinade in shrimp and chicken in cup of red wine and can of coke, Little bit of garlic, brown sugar, cayenne pepper and some old bay.

Slit the shrimp halfway thru and stuff it with crabmeat(or whatever you want) then wrap it in the chicken and wrap that in bacon. Hold together with a toothpick and grill them till the shrimps cooked through. You can also assemble tem first, skewer them and marinade them all together. I sprinkle some old bay on them while they cook also. If ya do it right(grilled), they're great, if ya want to poison your friends and wreck your reputation of knowing how to cook.. try smoking them. :shock: