1 Dozen clams
1/2 Stick unsalted butter
100gms Gorgonzola or Blue Chesse
Parsley finely chopped
Olive Oil, preferably Baja
Jalapeño peppers finely diced, no seeds or veins
1 Roasted Garlic
To make the Butter:
Cut the Garlic in half and drizzle with Olive oil, wrap in aluminum foil and put in oven at 350 degress for 30 minutes. Once its cooked, simply
squeeze the garlic out of the shells with your hands and save.
Let butter sit at room temperature for an hour or so so it gets soft. Add the Chesse, the Parsley, and the Garlic paste and mix well.
Refrigerate so it gets hard.
To make the clams:
Wrap the clams in aluminum foil and place directly in grill over hot coals. Cook for 4 minutes on each side or until clams open.
Remove from heat, and be careful to save all the juice that you can get from each clam.
Open the clams (do not remove the meat or it will be hard to place back on grill), drizzle a little olive oil on them, and add a touch of pepper, DO
NOT ADD salt.
Place the Clams on the grill meat facing down directly on the fire, cook for 1 minute to get all the mezquite flavor in them, and then turn, add a
little of the Gorgonzola butter and just wait until it all melts. Add about a teaspoon of clam juice to each clam and remove from heat.
Place in a serving plate, careful not to spill the butter and juice, and then add a little of the diced Jalapeño on each of them.
Serve inmediately with a lime and cold beer.Iflyfish - 5-17-2007 at 11:33 PM
Oh, man!
Good one.
Iflyfishbeachbum1A - 5-18-2007 at 08:30 AM
Oh my God but that sounds absolutely delicious!! (even for breakfast!) hahahaDianaT - 5-18-2007 at 08:33 AM
OMG my keyboard is going to drown from me drooling all over it.
Thanks---look forward to more.
Diane
Almejas al la Jesse
Loretana - 5-18-2007 at 08:43 AM
Que rico, Jesse!
I'm heading down to Ligui in about an hour with friends to buy as many chocolates as the boys bring in.
You just made my day!! tripledigitken - 5-18-2007 at 09:56 AM
Jesse,
On the menu for this weekend. Paired with a nice Sauv Blanc ...perfect.
Thanks and keep these gems coming.
Hope to sample your cooking this October.
KenDanO - 5-18-2007 at 11:47 AM
I hate reading these recipe posts. I get so hungry, and there's nothing remotely good to eat around.oladulce - 5-18-2007 at 04:52 PM
What's the approx. volume measurement equivalent for "100 Gms" of the cheese?
Similar to butter, so about ½ cup= 100 Gms ?
No wonder full- time Baja-boonies resident and friend, CP, grows her own herbs and seasonings. For us Short-timers , the odds are slim that almejas
would come our way at the same time that parsley was anywhere in a 100 mile radius. Sigh...
I will add Parsley to my list of crop attempts when we are full timers too cuz this sounds like a good one. Thanks.
"This might be parsley..."
oladulce - 5-18-2007 at 07:31 PM
Pompano you could insert me in to your produce-section photo and use the exact same caption. I can only find parsley by smelling until I find the one
that's not cilantro.
Boy if we could get leafy-greens like those in your picture, just a stones-throw across the peninsula from you, we'd dive on to the tables like kids
playing in autum leaves.Paula - 5-18-2007 at 07:56 PM
Ola, I can buy real, curly parsley-- the kind I use in white clam sauce-- at Arturo's market in Loreto, and at other stores almost anytime. I'm not
sure just where you are building, but on those trips to Constitucion that (I think) you mentioned, you'll see they have an amazing selection of fresh
herbs in Ley.
Who'd a thunk it?CP - 5-20-2007 at 10:43 AM
Yup - the produce department at Ley in Cd. C was a TERRIFIC surprise to find when we moved nearby a few years ago. And the corner produce marts in CC
can make me smile, too. But I see photos of produce in Mulege and its hard to accept -it looks so much better just over on el otro lado!!
OLADULCE - I'll always share my fresh parsley with you...please bring Gorgonzola!Cypress - 5-20-2007 at 10:51 AM
Yummy!That Gorgonzola-Butter sauce would make my old tennis shoes palatable. Well, almost. Maybe?Those pies look mighty good also.I'm getting hungry.JESSE - 5-20-2007 at 06:04 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Pompano
How about a trade for some of those...slurp...baby clams?
Do you do banana cream pies?
Done, you bring a few and i will cook a whole bucnh for you.BigWooo - 5-20-2007 at 07:24 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by Pompano
Oladulce...get yourself an herb garden. It is sooo easy...you just buy some tubs, get some plant food and dirt, hand it to the wife and go
fishing...viola!
My wife (Oladulce) would be pretty sad if I went fishing and left her to watch the parsley growBigWooo - 5-20-2007 at 07:52 PM
Judging from the picture, I think I'd rather watch the parsley grow!
After reading the story, I KNOW I'd rather watch the parsley grow.
Those pies look mighty good also.
