memoirs of a palate

PARTY STARTER




I'm not sure how ideal this first dish is for our maiden post ... but it's what we're eating first so it'll have to do.

And the ingredients are:
- smoked mussels (from Maine, apparently)
- smoked paprika (from Spain, apparently)
- a garlic clove
- a couple slivers of butter
- panko
- red pepper sauce
- kosher salt
- homemade sun-dried tomato pesto

We just mixed it all up and threw it in a couple gratin dishes. We don’t really mess with times and temperatures, but the dishes went on a cookie sheet and under the broiler until brown. Smoky and spicy. It was pretty good.