Does anyone use oysters for any holiday meal?

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

My grandmother used to put oysters in her stuffing. I always loved it. That would never go in my family! I do like oyster stew, though.

My aunt, who was reared in Iowa made "oyster dressing". (It didn't take the place of turkey dressing). She buttered a 9x9 glass bake dish then put in oysters, pepper, butter, saltines and a little half and half milk. It only baked like 15 minutes. Could be another side with turkey or roast.

Do you use oysters? How?

Suhse · ‎03-13-2012

NO. I Loathe them.

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

I don't care for them either. No offense to your grandmother.

Tigriss · ‎03-12-2010

We steam them when we clean out the boiler after making cane syrup in the barn. We harvest sugar cane and make syrup every fall just before the first hard freeze. That is often around Thanksgiving. We roast a half a hog and fresh deer sausage plus have soups and stew on the wood burning stove and bake biscuits for the syrup. We also have cakes and sweets to follow. I just shuck them because I don't eat them. I have texture issues with them, but I like mussels and clams, but not oysters.

DiAnne · ‎09-22-2010

I use oysters in the stuffing for Thanksgiving (so did my mother and grandmother).

colliemom4 · ‎09-08-2010

My grandpa used to love it. I was always too afraid to try it when I was a kid.

joannecha · ‎04-06-2010

DH puts oysters in our stuffing, but he includes raisins, water chestnuts and mushrooms (kind of an eclectic mix).

shoesnbags · ‎03-10-2010

It wouldn't be Thanksgiving around here without oyster stuffing for the bird!

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ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

On 11/11/2014 tigriss said:
We steam them when we clean out the boiler after making cane syrup in the barn. We harvest sugar cane and make syrup every fall just before the first hard freeze. That is often around Thanksgiving. We roast a half a hog and fresh deer sausage plus have soups and stew on the wood burning stove and bake biscuits for the syrup. We also have cakes and sweets to follow. I just shuck them because I don't eat them. I have texture issues with them, but I like mussels and clams, but not oysters.

That is absolute amazing!!! Thank you SO much for blessing me with that beautiful pucture!

Blessings to you and your Fam from The greatgrand daughter of the master carpenter of famed Biltmore House!