linguini with clam sauce ala stike

mad max beyond eggdome

when i made my little field trip to chez stike a couple of weeks ago up in boston, he cooked up these righteous cherrystone clams on his egg for me and sundown ...tasted great, just a tad of smoke, and were very juicy, not dried out at all ...said i was gonna have to try them when i got home and put them in clam sauce with pasta. ... so with some expert guidance from the stike-man hisself, i picked up a dozen cherrystones at the local grocer, and did em up in the egg the way he does em. ... basically 400 degrees indirect over a plate setter with some wood chips (in this case some jack daniels chips). .. .you have to keep an eye on them a pull each one just as they open. .. and try to reserve as much of the liquid as possible. ...



as they open, i put them in a big bowl letting their juice pour into the bottom of the bowl ...



when they were all done, i removed them from their shells, chopped them up and put them in a saute pan with some good olive oil. .. i strained the reserved juice through a coffee filter and added that. .. if you like garlic, it would be good to add some of that (i didn't cause the wife is alergic) ....made up a pound of good linguini and add the clams/oil to the linguini and dats it. ... easy peasy and so good!!!! ...



i'll tell you, the smokey flavor from the egg infused into the clams made this the best clam sauce ever!!! even my wife, who usually doesn't like stuff smokey off the egg raved over this one. .. .

thanks stike!!!

Richard Fl

As always EGGcellent!

I like to do them on the BGE in a wok with a little white wine, garlic, parsley and then toss the cooked pasta in at the end to gather the liquid. Don't loose as much liquid in the wok.

mad max beyond eggdome

dat sounds good too .. .i do mussels that way in the egg (in the wok, etc). ...do the clams still pick up the smoke flavor that way?. . . i really liked the way the clams picked up the smoke flavor and the way it then transitioned into the overall pasta dish. .. and like i said, when my wife ends up liking a smoked dish (albeit a lightly smoked dish) i know i have a winner on my hands!!

Richard Fl

I usually use little necks-currently $20/100 count bag, If you want smoke leave the top off the wok, if no smoke I use a metal wok top on, plus I do not place any wood in to begin with. I toss some butter in toward the end and great for sopping hard crusty french bread with the pasta. Some times a little pancetta ala carbonara works also. How is Spawn doing??..

BENTE

wow max i guess you still cook??? :blink:


i guess you should have never stopped :evil: :laugh:



looks great

mad max beyond eggdome

gotcha on the different wok alternatives. ..pretty much in line with what i do ...

spawn continues to do well, thanks for asking .. skin grafts all healing well. .. she has a followup with her favorite russian surgeon tomorrow so we'll see what he says, but its all looking good, and her diabetes management seems to be doing good as well ...and school seems to also be sorting itself out. ..we are both looking forward to waldorf!!

mad max beyond eggdome

never did stop. .. just hadn't cooked anything camera worthy in a while. .. heck, did up a beautiful beer can chicken for my wife and sam for the next couple of days while i'm on travel, and i have burgers out on the egg right now, rolled in chopped onion and dusted with mrs. dog's chipotle seasoning salt!! ...how's dat sound to you?!?! :woohoo:

BENTE

sounds pretty good julie sent me some of that seasoning salt when i got my new order tuesday but i have yet to try it.. i should have tried it on a couple burgers we made last night but out of site :pinch:

Little Steven

Max,

It looks incredible. We won't talk about anything else. Darn it. They were all over NY last night. How did this happen?

Steve

FlaPoolman

Looks good Max. Like Richard I usually pick up 100 at a time and just sit buy the egg with a cup of butter and eat them as fast as they open. Looks like I'll need to set a few aside next time.

mad max beyond eggdome

oh man, thats really the way to do it. ..at stike's house that's basically what we did. .. stike/sundown/me sat there at the dining room table while mrs stike ran em into us (she is quite the little slave girl. .heee) . . .but damn if they aren't fantastic worked into the linguini!!!

mad max beyond eggdome

yeah, kinda down around here!! .. .we are still keeping the faith that we can turn this around in MSG tomorrow night. ..not like we haven't been in both games. .. just up against the hot goalie right now. . have to crash the net more!! . . .we'll see. . .hell, our 20 year russan phenom was fantastic in goal for us, we just got beat 1-0 yesterday.. .king henrik was that much better!! . ..oh well. .. i have the tickets for game 5 next friday night. .. sure hope i have a game 5 to go to!!

mad max beyond eggdome

its great on a burger. .. its also great as a finishing salt on stuff like a sliced pork loin, and i like it on my sliced hanger steak as well .. .don't need a lot though when you use it as a finisher, just like you would your salt shaker in that case. ...damn good stuff, one of my favorites!!

BENTE

i shall give it a try sooooon!!!


and one thing i forgot earlier... you said your "food has not been photo worthy" you have seen some of my photos .... but i am not ashamed.. and i know you are not......




soooooooo... just call it like you really are....



(PAUSE FOR EFFECT)









you are lazy!!!! hey me too it is just good to see great pictures from you... great cause you took the time.... sniff sniff... :pinch:

Roudy

Nice lookin cook there Max. I miss getting fresh cherrystones when we lived in New York. Gonna have to try this one as my daughters are split over clam chowder - one will only eat New England style and the other will only eat Manhattan. That reminds me, the youngest (13) was eating the New England style one day when I mentioned the bits of clam in the chowder. She stopped and said: "What? There are clams in clam chowder?" I haven't let her forget that one. :laugh:

Little Steven

Max,

Varlamov played a great game. Linqvist had horshoes. Tough loss.

Steve

Beli

Max

That second photo is worth millions better than finding a pearl shell...TKS for the original idea great cook.

stike

that was me doing the running in and out. you caught me in my house dress.

glad you liked them. my wife and i grew up on steamers, and we both feel guilty when we suggest the cherrystones. but not for long