Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 39 – Hit The Beach

Slap on that sunscreen kids and grab a shovel! Shawn and Simon are hunting the sandy shores for mussels, oysters, clams, crabs, seaweed and a million other varieties of sea life, all delicious and all free! 

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

CAN U DIG IT APP: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/can-u-dig-it/id1492150706

TIDES APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tide-charts/id957143504

 BLUE WATER CAFE COOKBOOK: https://www.bluewatercafe.net/about/cookbook.html

Miso Roasted Oysters: https://www.eatdrinkbreathe.com/miso-roasted-oysters/

The Coastal Forager’s Cookbook by Chef Robin Kort: https://www.amazon.com/Coastal-Foragers-Cookbook-Recipes-Northwest/dp/1771514086

Fishing BC App: https://fishingbcapp.ca/

Khurangbin album A La Sala: https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/a-la-sala

Picture of Sea Asparagus via : https://eatnorth.com/dan-clapson/what-hell-sea-asparagus

Beach Peas!

I haven’t posted as regularly as I usually do this summer and for that I deeply apologize to the handful of crazed kitchen folk and family members that subscribe to EDB. *laughs* We are still here, banging out recipes and philosophizing on life the universe and everything… It’s just been a rough couple ‘o months. Operation Best Summer Ever seems like a lifetime ago.

Unlike that long lost adventure on Quadra THIS summer has been about work and more work. No hiking. No biking. Zero gardening. Camping? Forget it. No sun and no fun… Just work.

But scattered amongst the endless grey weeks of life on the line sprout little moments of zen that keep me sane. Like the peas I found growing along the beach next to my post-work meditation spot. Read More

Miso-Roasted Oysters

Oyster MotoyakiI know it seems like I throw miso in everything – like Jamie Oliver with all that damned rosemary – but if you’re a fan of oysters stay with me. If you have friends and family that are a little oyster-phobic this is the recipe that will turn ’em around. It’s that damned good!

And that’s impressive because there aren’t many things that people eat more polarizing than oysters. Shuck a couple and half the people at your dinner party will gag while the other half dig in with wild abandon.  My wife was one of the former (an unrepentant hater of oysters and most other bivalve mollusks) up until only recently. Now she tolerates a few raw oysters now and then but only if they’re the size of a dime and the larger ones get only scornful looks unless they arrive slathered in miso mayonnaise.

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