40 Hog Island Sweetwaters - Briny
10 Island Creek Eastern Oysters - Sweet, Mild
purchased at the Ferry Building Hog Island oyster stand
Dexter Russel Boston 4" shucking knife
A whole lotta crushed ice
Recipes from...
Taste with the Eyes Gochujang Butter Kimchi Scallion Oysters
Roy's Oysters Dynamite
The Hog Island Oyster Lover's Cookbook (loosely followed below)
Oysters Rockefeller
In the interest of utilizing excess fennel...
Chez Panisse Oyster Stew with Thyme and Fennel
Topping for oysters on ice:
Mignonette
The ratios are from the Hog Island cookbook although I made much less.
BONUS!!
Scallop Dynamite
10 Island Creek Eastern Oysters - Sweet, Mild
purchased at the Ferry Building Hog Island oyster stand
Dexter Russel Boston 4" shucking knife
A whole lotta crushed ice
Recipes from...
Taste with the Eyes Gochujang Butter Kimchi Scallion Oysters
Roy's Oysters Dynamite
The Hog Island Oyster Lover's Cookbook (loosely followed below)
Oysters Rockefeller
1 stick butter (1-2 tbsp. less seems ok)
fresh parsley, tarragon, chervil
2 green onions
1/8 minced, fennel (recipe calls for celery leaves)
2 tbsp Pernod or absinthe (unavailable, thus the use of fennel for the licorice flavor)
1/4 cup panko (recipe calls for french bread crumbs)
1 tbsp tobasco
1 dozen medium Pacific oysters
Saute parsley, green onions, celery, tarragon, and chervil in butter. Add tobasco, and cook until tender. Add Pernod and breadcrumbs. Saute for another 5 minutes. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and shuck oysters in the meantime. On oven proof dish, plate oysters over 1/4" rock salt and preheat for 8 min. Top oysters with stuffing and bake for 5 minutes or until bubbly. A quick broil works pretty well too.
In the interest of utilizing excess fennel...
Chez Panisse Oyster Stew with Thyme and Fennel
2 tbsp butter
1 small leek (white part), finely diced
1 small carrot, finely diced
1 stalk celery, finely diced
1 small fennel bulb, trimmed, cored, diced
fresh thyme, leaves from a few sprigs
1 cup heavy cream
16 medium Pacific oysters with liquor
chervil or parsley, coarse
salt, pepper
Saute vegetables and thyme in butter until tender. Reduce heat, salt, and add cream. Simmer for 2 minutes without boiling. Add oysters and liquor. When edges of oysters curl (about one min) season. Garnish with chervil, pepper and *crouton.
*Crouton
Toss 2 cups of day old bread (no crust) in 2 tbsp. melted butter. Bake in 375 degree preheated oven for 10 minutes.
Topping for oysters on ice:
Kumquat Vinagrette
Plain ole Lemon and Tobasco
Mignonette
The ratios are from the Hog Island cookbook although I made much less.
3/4 cup champagne vinegar (recipe calls for red wine vinegar)
1/4 apple cider vinegar
2 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 cup shallots
pepper
*sugar, to taste
BONUS!!
Scallop Dynamite
Roy's recipe also made a great base for "traditional" seafood dynamite. How I did it, below:
Preheat broiler to high. Mix together mayo, vinegar, garlic, sesame oil, fish sauce, furikake and seafood. Spread in a shallow baking dish (or a big scallop shell) and brush with glaze. Broil for 3 minutes until glaze is bubbly and shiny. Garnish and serve immediately with rice.fresh bay scallops, whole (lobster, shrimp and crab work too, chopped the same size as scallop)
kewpie mayonnaise
rice wine vinegar
garlic
sesame oil
fish sauce
furikake
oyster sauce (use only half the specified recipe ratio)
glaze - reduce sugar, soy sauce, mirin, sesame oil, and bit of cornstarch (or just use nice teriyaki sauce)
garnish - tiny tobiko, bonito flakes, thinly sliced green onion
CNBlue - Can't Stop
Horticulture helps pop-rockers to extend emotional range one step further and impresses previously indifferent (though curious after rocking Re:Blue performances) listener. The single is positively vibrant - haunting minor major melancholia resolves from doubt into radiant conviction by the chorus. Unstoppable.
Royal Pirates - Drawing the Line
Smexy makeovers join forces with funky title track to spearhead surprisingly cohesive album. Fly to You, an ode to surf reverb, conjures the sunny, lazy temperament (re Armchair) of summer-y freedom.
Smexy makeovers join forces with funky title track to spearhead surprisingly cohesive album. Fly to You, an ode to surf reverb, conjures the sunny, lazy temperament (re Armchair) of summer-y freedom.
The best Kpop walks the line between the relatable and total, utter chaos - offering an alternative and respite from direction-ality in general, balking at consistency and continuity, rewarding an all-over-the-place sonic palette and attention span. In Korean Hip Hop there is very little surprise. Rappers traditionally rap forwardly. Journey as a specific vector, tickling words apart as they flow by. Emphasis authentically. Below are two who gave me a start:
T.O.P. - Doom Dada
"Haku-nama-ta-ta"
T.O.P. comes with cred, but his stoic suit and tie baritone has always been part of the totality that is Big Bang, a mainstay backdrop for the whiny bling of GD. Everyone in Big Bang dropped something last year: Well received and well made, GD's flow has been setting the standard for what Korean hip hop sounds like in the now/future, but Coup D'etat was not a big evolutionary jump for him personally. Daesung belted ballads. Sungri soothed with lounge dance. Taeyang took on a completely new identity with Ringa Linga - his ghost-rapping unsatisfying, but the song garnering much attention.
It's hard to imagine an audience for T.O.P.'s Doom Dada. Girls swooning for candlelit flow? Nerds nodding to (mostly) boring canonical authenticity (here's the Primer)? Certainly, the West - fed on the gimmick of Gangnam style - might be a little confused. Uniquely Korean, Doom Dada follows the trickster prog formula of Kpop but translated into rap. T.O.P. dives off cliffs into different registers, styles, speeds. Continuously. Deliberately. A spooky melodic callout is interrupted by a hypnotic doomsday chant. Deep space synths and pings slide over cavernous beats, a minimal maximalist composition.
The video and the beats are touched by a weird that his public appearances only suggest. Kubrick references, nuclear cauliflower flower. Digs at T.O.P.'s Big Bang persona, namely a salivary monolith of handsome, are more sly than soapbox. In Doom Dada, T.O.P. suddenly unleashes an extroverted, aggressive energy. Nothing else sounds like him, but he finally sounds like Him. A grown up gorilla, drinking champagne and snarling - an angry, dark, nimble and hard thing.
Tae Woon - Focus
Forget his risible group, forget forward motion, because Tae Woon raps in 3-D.
Pick your references: E-40 comes to mind, Deltron, the entire SF scene, Ludacris, southern, club bangers, the legit underground. Tae Woon of boyband Speed is an anomaly. He has more skillz than average. His repertoire is broader than expected. Perfect enunciation punches syllables into submission - an enunciation which eviscerates lines. Details cluster between and inside the mundane. Phrases syncopate and scatter into the aether like atoms. Growls and yelps are exclamations - more convicted. Delivery, vocally, both are heftier than usual - more convincing. Convincing at all.
These two really make me wonder how many other talented Korean boyband rappers are repressed.
T.O.P. - Doom Dada
"Haku-nama-ta-ta"
It's hard to imagine an audience for T.O.P.'s Doom Dada. Girls swooning for candlelit flow? Nerds nodding to (mostly) boring canonical authenticity (here's the Primer)? Certainly, the West - fed on the gimmick of Gangnam style - might be a little confused. Uniquely Korean, Doom Dada follows the trickster prog formula of Kpop but translated into rap. T.O.P. dives off cliffs into different registers, styles, speeds. Continuously. Deliberately. A spooky melodic callout is interrupted by a hypnotic doomsday chant. Deep space synths and pings slide over cavernous beats, a minimal maximalist composition.
The video and the beats are touched by a weird that his public appearances only suggest. Kubrick references, nuclear cauliflower flower. Digs at T.O.P.'s Big Bang persona, namely a salivary monolith of handsome, are more sly than soapbox. In Doom Dada, T.O.P. suddenly unleashes an extroverted, aggressive energy. Nothing else sounds like him, but he finally sounds like Him. A grown up gorilla, drinking champagne and snarling - an angry, dark, nimble and hard thing.
Tae Woon - Focus
Forget his risible group, forget forward motion, because Tae Woon raps in 3-D.
Pick your references: E-40 comes to mind, Deltron, the entire SF scene, Ludacris, southern, club bangers, the legit underground. Tae Woon of boyband Speed is an anomaly. He has more skillz than average. His repertoire is broader than expected. Perfect enunciation punches syllables into submission - an enunciation which eviscerates lines. Details cluster between and inside the mundane. Phrases syncopate and scatter into the aether like atoms. Growls and yelps are exclamations - more convicted. Delivery, vocally, both are heftier than usual - more convincing. Convincing at all.
These two really make me wonder how many other talented Korean boyband rappers are repressed.
