Oysters in a Pattyshell

One of the first dishes up is an oyster dish

This is gonna make a great appetizer for you. It's real easy to make

Now we're gonna start with our pastry, and we're using a plain flour

And I'm just gonna mix that up. And I'm gonna add cream cheese and a stick of butter

This is just one of my favorite pastries. In fact, I use this crust for savory dishes

as well as sweet dishes. In fact, this is the original crust

for my little mini pecan pies, which are just delicious. There we go

And this should start forming a ball. As you can see, it's already starting to

there it is, there's our ball. All right, now I'm gonna take this out

and you'll wanna be careful with your blade so you don't nick yourself

Now I'm gonna just wrap this in saran wrap. You can't ever have too much counter space, can you

I think if I had a mile a counter, I'd still use a mile and a quarter

Ooh, that cream cheese smells so good in there. Gertie, I don't have anything ready yet

All right, now I'm just gonna kinda work that into a ball just like that, great

All right so we gonna switch this out to one that I made earlier that has gotten a little firmer

All right, this should take about half of this batter or half of this dough

So I think I'm going to cut it in half. And then we've got seven patty shells to make

So I'm going to divide this into seven pieces, just like that

We're going to try a little something and see if it'll work for this. I've got a glass that's about the size of these openings

and I'm going to just dip it in some flour, and I'm going to press down and see how that works

Oh, that works good. And we're just going to keep on going until we have every one of them

And then I'm going to come back and I'm going to work it up the sides a little bit

because I want these shells to have a little lip on it so that the oysters won't fall out

All right, so I'm going to come back in with my fingers and I'm just going to run this pastry just like this up the sides of it

so it'll make like a little edible container. That's working just the way I wanted it to

Look how pretty and perfect that is. All right, we're going to put this into a 350 degree oven and we're going to bake it

for 45 minutes I be checking on it closely though but we want a nice kind of medium brown crust to hold those oysters

Now for the good stuff. I'm gonna start with two tablespoons of butter. We've got our butter ready

and I'm gonna saute our mushrooms in here until they're kind of soft. All right, these are looking

good. All right, now I'm gonna just toss some flour in here and stir that up because that's

gonna act as a thickener. All right, and I'm gonna add a fourth of a teaspoon of garlic salt

and a cup of milk and let that cook. We're just gonna throw those oysters in there

Speaking of romantical, I think Michael is fixing to get on a ship, but I still want to talk to him

Maybe it'll be all right. What are you doing? Well, I was just looking at these oysters and thinking about you

I can't wait for you to get home. I'm cooking a romantical meal just for the two of us

I love you, too. Bye. I just love romantical men All right and I gonna put like a teaspoon of lemon juice All right we just gonna let this simmer

until it really thickens up. All right, this has reduced down and gotten thicker

but I think our patty shells should be done. So let's see what they look like

Oh yeah, they look good. Hey, Rennie. What you doing? Bring our plate around here

Now Michael can probably eat two of these, but I can't eat but one

All right, now all I'm gonna do is just pile the oyster

on top of that beautiful piece of pastry. Now if you didn't like oysters

you could use a shrimp or a scallop. Now I'm gonna just sprinkle it with a little Parmesan cheese and fresh parsley

And the dish is ready to go. Just that simple. And if your companion likes oysters, they'll love this dish

Oh, it's so hot. Mmm. Mmm. This is going to make a perfect mood setter