Oysters Under A Blanket Recipes

Steps:

• Combine the sake, sugar and shoyu in a small saucepan along with the smashed garlic and ginger. Bring to a simmer and cook until the liquid is reduced into a syrupy glaze with large, dark bubbles, about 30 minutes. Using a spoon or strainer, remove and discard garlic and ginger. You should have about 1/2 cup glaze. Stir in the butter.
• After the sauce is prepared (or as it reduces), ignite a full chimney of coals and spread out under one side of the grill once they are fully covered in gray ash, or heat half the burners of a gas grill to high. Cover and let the grill heat for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, cut off a sheet of aluminum foil twice the length of a 13-by-18-inch rimmed baking sheet. Crumple it up so that it fits into the baking sheet. The crumpled foil should be able to support the cupped side of the oysters without allowing them to tip over.
• Using tongs, arrange the oysters over the hot side of the grill, placing them with the cupped sides down, doing your best to set them in the grates so that oyster juices don't pour out of the cups as they open. Cover and cook, checking on them every minute or so, and transferring any oysters that have begun to gape open to the foil-lined baking sheet. After a total of 4 minutes, transfer any remaining oysters to the foil whether they have opened or not. Place the saucepan on the cooler side of the grill.
• As soon as the oysters are cool enough to handle, pry off the top shells with a butter knife or oyster knife, severing through the muscle that holds the oyster to the shell and retaining as much juice in the shell as possible. For oysters that aren't already gaping open, the easiest way to pry off the lids is by inserting the tip of the knife into the joint and firmly twisting it until the joint releases.
• Spoon a generous teaspoon of the glaze into each oyster, then return the oysters directly onto the grates on the hot side of the grill. Cook, uncovered, until the sauce mixture is bubbling hot, about 1 minute.
• Return the oysters to the foil-lined baking sheet, sprinkle with scallions, and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat inside of a flat-bottom casserole dish with 1 tablespoon of the butter. Arrange the oysters in the bottom, and sprinkle with lemon juice, 1 teaspoon paprika and the celery seed. Dot with chili sauce and the remaining butter.
• Place the biscuit mix in a bowl and stir in 1/2 cup milk, or enough to make a soft dough that will drop off a spoon. Place this dough by spoonfuls on top of the oysters and, with fingertips dipped in milk, spread it out into an even, unbroken layer. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 teaspoon paprika over the top.
• Combine the remaining ingredients, salting the mixture to taste. Pour this liquid over the biscuit layer and bake 30 to 40 minutes or until lightly browned on top. The liquid will run underneath as the biscuit mixture rises, becoming a sauce for the oysters.
• To serve, cut straight down with a spoon, taking up oysters, sauce and biscuit for each helping.