Oyster Roast 2011

Have you ever been to an oyster roast?  Oh my!!!  If you love oysters, this is the place for you!!!!  It is a traditional outdoor party here in the Lowcountry.

 There are huge tables which are basically a piece of plywood with holes cut in each end.  Garbage cans are placed under the holes to hold the thing up.  Big batches of oysters are steamed in baskets and dumped on the table.  You dig in and toss your shells in the holes!  We love to have them on crackers with horseradish and cocktail sauce, but it appears to we are too fancy with it and we should just drag the oyster through some cocktail sauce and pop it in our mouths!

My friend, Laura in the pink, got caught by these sly young girls who had her doing the shucking and giving them the oysters!  She looked at me and said, "I don't even know these kids!"  This was our first annual Oyster Roast in our neighborhood last Sunday.  The weather was perfect!  We had D.J. playing music and a huge RV parked in the parking lot with a big screen t.v. playing Super Bowl pregame stuff. We had a great turnout and lots of fun!  

Meet my friend, Mandy, who is a southern belle at her finest!  If I want to keep up,  I need a monogrammed oyster glove and oyster knife.  I told you people we monogram everything!!! 

 I will have one next year!!!  

Beautiful weather, great food, wonderful friends... could it have been a better Sunday?  I think not!