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Special Dinner for Two

Appears in
Modern Classics
Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

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Special birthdays in our house, as well as anniversaries and holiday celebrations, are often spent at home, opening a very nice bottle or two of claret or champagne to accompany a meal that I enjoy cooking just for the two of us. This menu fits the bill.

Opening oysters for more than two people is tedious. I speak from experience, having spent some Christmas mornings helping to open a hundred or so of these tough-shelled molluscs. But I do not mind opening a dozen, or persuading my husband Tom to open them. Plain on the half-shell is, without doubt, the best and easiest way to eat them, but here are a couple of different ways of preparing them.

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