[Sca-cooks] Bouillabaise quote from NY Times...

Sue Clemenger mooncat at in-tch.com
Sat Aug 10 21:27:29 PDT 2002


What's piri-piri pepper sauce?
--Maire, clamless, clueless, and drooling in northern Artemisia....

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>
> Urp.  Kill me now.
>
> Better yet, get milord hubby to avenge our ravaged aesthetics.  He's a part
> time Klingon.
>
> On a tangent, yet closer to bouillabaise than these characters will ever be:  I
> seem to have inherited a
> "cataplana," a Portuguese cooking vessel that looks like a pair of copper woks,
> hinged together.
> Apparently, the clamshell-looking contraption was invented by fisherman to cook
> their meals.
> One puts clams and whatever else one has in with some wine and/or stock,
> piri-piri pepper sauce of course,
> closes it up and places it over coals.  Ten minutes or until the clams open,
> and eat!
>
> This sounds like a likely item for an overnight event, if I can sneak offsite
> long enough to get to a good
> fishmarket during the weekend.
>
> Selene Colfox, Clammy in Caid



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