Interview with Chef Eirich at Galatoire's Restaurant in New Orleans
Welcome to New Orleans Recipes.
Here is the July podcast with New Orleans Chef Ross Eirich of Galatoire's restaurant.
Chef Ross gave me two recipes. One for Shrimp Remoulade which serves 6 and the other for Oysters Rockefeller which serves 12. You can download the Oysters Rockefeller as a pdf file here. I hope to have the Shrimp Remoulade posted tomorrow.
Thanks and I hope you enjoy the blog, the recipes and the interview.
If you have any questions, recipes or comments we would love to hear from you.
Oysters Rockefeller
6 dozen oysters (on the half shell)
12 cups of rock salt
12 lemon wedges
Sauce Ingredients:
1 cup leeks
1 cup fennel
1/2 cup finely chopped parsley
1/3 cup finely chopped green onions
1/2 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup ketchup
3 cups chopped spinach
(defrosted and drained)
1/2 tsp. salt
pinch of cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp. white pepper
pinch of thyme
1 tsp. ground anise
1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
3 Tbsp. Herbsaint
(may substitute Pernod)
1 cup melted butter
1 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
To make the Rockefeller sauce: in a food processor combine all sauce ingredients except the butter and breadcrumbs. Puree. Transfer to a mixing bowl then add butter and fold in breadcrumbs, blending well.
Arrange twelve 8-in. cake pans; fill each with rock salt to cover bottoms. Arrange 6 oysters in each pan. Fill a pastry bag with Rockefeller sauce. Pipe equal portions of sauce over each shell (if you do not have a pastry bag, use a spoon). Place in the oven and bake for 5 minutes. Then broil for 3-1/2 minutes until top is bubbling.
Remove and transfer pans to napkin-covered serving plates. Garnish with lemon wedges.
posted by NewOrleansMan @ 6:26 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
Great bolg. Can't wait to hear the podcast!
Hey this interview is great. Nice to hear getting fresh product is a coomon problem.
Hey! This website is awesome and I will definitely pass it on to all of my friends!
I am looking forward to seeing the best of New Orleans cuisine here. Thanks for creating this four-star blog.
Very interesting and informative...oh, and the Shrimp Remoulade sounds good too!!!!
What a shame oysters are so expensive here in the UK :-(
Great site, I've added a link to mine @ http://magiric.com/
Does anyone know if Galatoire's is still there? And Felix's across the street for that matter?
This is NewOrleansMan,
I know the French Quarter is dry, never did get any flooding. I am not sure about wind damage. The buildings in the Quarter are very close together so they protect each other from the wind. They are also built very sound. My guess is Felix's and Galatoire's are fine.
Katrina Up-date: The present state of New Orleans
This is an e-mail sent to me by a cousin, who received it from a friend of hers. It is a first hand view of the City and of great interest to those of us who know and love New Orleans:
Dear Folks:
I have little free time these days, so I created this list to send
out news from New Orleans. If you want off this list, just send something
back to me. But there are so many of you who are from New Orleans, lived there
or have an interest in the city, are my friends, have sent me emails
inquiring about me, or whatever, that I decided to send you all a group e-mail.
I went into downtown New Orleans for the second time today, this time
spent a lot of time driving where I could. I'm going back tomorrow.
The difference from Friday to today is stunning: the authorities have
control. I felt very safe. Buses streaming into and out of the downtown
through the only route: I-10 to I-310 over the Luling Bridge to U.S. 90 to
Westbank Expressway, then over the Crescent City Connection (the double
span downtown bridge.) Saw very little evidence of looting. Floodwaters obviously receding.
THE CONVENTION CENTER CROWD: Most all of the people have been
removed. Some still being picked up by buses when I left, but the difference =
between Friday and today was remarkable. I visited with some, and what hit me was all the people coming up to me begging me to put their names in the paper in order that their relatives would know they were alive. they had organized into various social groups, with adults taking turns sleeping while others watched the children and guarded the group from the few thugs that were causing
trouble.
THE AUTHORITIES ARE IN CONTROL. They had secured most of downtown Friday, but had total control on Saturday. No signs of lotting or damaging homes in Warehouse Dsitrict uptown to audubon Park. I drove around a lot. Workers are everywhere. Convoys, buses, cops, helicopters, ambulances,
airplanes streaming into New Orleans. Considering there is one way into
the city, I think the response has been really good.
MY PLACE ON JULIA AT CAMP STREET: At ------ Julia Street, if the electricity and water were on, I could host a party tonight. There was no damage whatsover to any of the Julia Row Townhouses.
ST. CHARLES AVENUE: NOT ONE LIVE OAK ON ST. CHARLES AVE. IS DOWN!!!!!!! I finally had my big cry drving down St. Charles when I realized how very little damage there was. There were only about 4-5 water oaks on St. Charles down all the way to Tulane. Both Tulane and Loyola look like you could hold classes tomorrow. Saw no damage to the histroic St. Charles Avenue mansions.
LACK OF DAMAGE UPTOWN: There was very little noticeable damage to homes=20 in the Lower Garden District or Uptown on the streets (I went all over, going from house to house of friends, saving Heidi Quenan's house). Now, something hit Heid's roof in the corner of her upstairs bedroom to cause a leak: a section of sheetrock about 4 x 6 feet had falen, but that's it: there was a candle still sitting on a table near the edge of her back porch. I say this by way of saying that while I was stunned - and overjoyed - by the lack of visible damage, I couldn't see everything, of course, but I was driving a 4-wheel drive jeep and meandered as I could. Lots of limbs down, but my companion, Jimmy Blanchard, the artist, designer and historical archivist and I were ecstatic that most of it is superficial. Most of our trees are still there.
RED CROSS VERY VISIBLE: The Red Cross was visible, assessing damage to homes. The director, on, I think, State Street, told me he was very pleased with the lack of damage.
WAREHOUSE DISTRICT: There was little damage in the Warehouse District. I've seen more litter on the ground at Mardi Gras. As far as Julia Row is concerned, the New York Times and the Times-Picayune could have snapped those pictures they ran from the corner of Camp and Julia today.
AUDUBON PARK: I checked out a friend's house on Exposition on the edge of Audubon Park and it was fine. There were limbs, but very few trees, down in Audubon Park. Almost all animals survived at the zoo. Talked to the exhausted but happy zoo curator.
UPTOWN IN GENERAL: There were very isolated cases of trees down on houses: but here's the interesting part: the trees that were down fell in between houses or across the back yards, where the vortex of the wind kicked them. saw no major damage to homes on St. Charles.
FRENCH QUARTER: Signs still hanging from shops. Very little evidence of looting anywhere that I've been: which is the Quarter (went down Bourbon to the 500 block, then turned back and came back out Royal; also drove around the Chartres/Decateur area near Canal Place; none of it got went), Canal to Bourbon. FLOODWATER: Water obviously receded quite a bit since Friday's =
visit. The water from the lake and canal stopped on Canal in between Burgundy and Bourbon. The rest of the Quarter stayed dry. Water came to 4-5 blocks lakeside of St.Charles The water from the lake and canal stopped on Canal in between Burgundy and Bourbon. The rest of the Quarter stayed dry. Water came to 4-5 blocks lakeside of St.Charles. Went to Audubon Zoo from Tchoupaltoulas to 4-5 blocks lakeside of St. Charles. The water from the lake and canal stopped on Canal in=20
between Burgundy and Bourbon. The rest of the Quarter stayed dry. Warehouse and almost all of Uptown stayed dry. Water came to 4-5 blocks lakeside of St.Charles. The water from the lake and canal stopped on Canal in between Burgundy and Bourbon. They sandbagged frantically in the quarter about 20 feet lakeside of Bourbon Street when the water started rising Wednesday.
Water came to 4-5 blocks lakeside of St.Charles.
LITTLE EVIDENCE OF LOOTING: Saw a couple of looted shops on Magazine near the nursing home, but that's it. The door to Whole Foods Store was open and those night lights. Now, to be sure, in a total of about 12 hours in the city, 2 of them spent in my own buidling.
AREA I HAVE VISITED SO FAR: Quarter to Conti, to Bourbon, down Royal,Chartres from 400 block to 200 block; all over Warehouse District, a bit of the Convention Center, Poydras (major damage to those very old live oaks in median while most of the fronds were still on the new palms at Harrah's =
two blocks away) Not much damge to live oaks in Lafayette Park. Been down St. Charles from Canal to Tulane. State, Webster, Eleonore, Coliseum form Napoleonville upriver for 6-7 blocks. Meandered through uptown, as downed trees, limbs, powerlines, etc. blocked many streets. All the way down Tchoupatoulis; Lower Garden District, Magazine, Camp. Went to Palmer as far lakeside of St. Charles as I could go. What's remarkable is the lack of major damage to this area. I know this contrasts with the misery and suffering elsewhere in the city, but the old historic New Orleans is in fine condition.
Driving down historic St. Charles Avenue, one of the world's great boulevards, I finally had the meltdown that all of us who love or live in this unique American city have all had. But the tears flowed downed my cheeks not out of horror, but of joy: not one Live Oak was down and there was minimum damage to the grand historic houses. From the French Quarter to Audubon Park, from the river to 4-5 blocks on the lakeside of St. Charles, our historic city is intact. And I was able to save Thelma the cat from under a bed at the Eleonore Street, the beloved pet of a longtime friend, one of dozens who have emailed or phoned me, frantic about their fears that historic New Orleans was destroyed. "Much of New Orleans far beyond what tourists see is intact," said Patty Gay, the head of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans, a neighbor on Jula Row, the 1832 13 townhouses in the Warehouse District where my family has a compound -- and where I know now I can still plan to retire. From her new command post in Franklinton, Patty is laying plans for rebuilding.
KATRINA-ZOO: For Audubon Zoo curator Dan Maloney and the dedicated zoo staff that rode out the hurricane with their animals, a big moment was when he was searching for the waterfowl, wondering what had happened to two month-old West African Crowned Cranes. "I saw one adult walking. Then one chick emerged from a big pile of rubble, and the other followed right after. That was very satisfying."While the award-winning zoo lost some animals they've too busy feeding the others to take a cenus - almost all of them survived.
I will continue going in and will send you more reports. I have so little free time (it's 11:20, and I'll be back at work at 9). I will try to read emails, but I'm losing ability to keep up with it.) Pray for the thousands believed dead. Pray for the dead pets. Pray for most of the rest of the city, since most of it will have to be torn down. Be very grateful to the thousands of guardsmen and workers who have already started what is going to be a very rebuilding. Be grateful you have a bed and access to a computer to read this.
Godspeed,
John
By John Hill.
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