Marinade: 1 TBSP Vegetable Oil    1 tsp  Basil   1 tsp Thyme  1 cup Soy Sauce

1 TBSP Lemon Juice     1 TBSP Cider Vinegar   1 TBSP Sugar   1 tsp Kosher Salt

1 TBSP Red Pepper Flakes    1/2 tsp White Pepper   1/2 tsp Cayenne Pepper

1/2 tsp freshly cracked Black Pepper     1 TBSP Old Bay Seasoning

1 TBSP Brown Peppercorns-Szechaun       1/2 cup Water

2# Shrimp with shells on, medium size

Mix all ingredients together, marinate for two hours.   Drain. Cook in hot oven with a little of the marinade still left on the shrimp.  Cook at 450-500 degrees for 3-4 minutes until shrimp are red in color.  Eat shell and all -like a Real Cajun!

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 Seves 4

2 TBSP  Olive Oil

2    8oz. Scallops, remove foot (medium size 1 1oz per scallop)

3 TBSP Bayou Spice   2 Tomatoes, roughly chopped, seedless, skinless

½ Cup Scallions, chopped         3 TBSP Butter     ½ Cup Beer (the chef’s favorite is BUD)

1 Serving of Cooked Angel Hair Pasta

Heat olive oil to medium heat.  Toss scallops in Bayou Spice.  Saute scallops until half done, slight color, 1-2 minutes.  Add tomatoes, scallions/toss for 20 seconds. Add beer, butter/let foam and reduce until scallops are cooked to a hot medium rare.  Pour over cooked pasta and serve. 

Bayou Spice

½ TBSP Salt    2 TBSP Annulated Garlic     2 TBSP Annulated Onion

2 TBSP Thyme  2 TBSP Basil    2 TBSP Cayenne Pepper  2 TBSP Paprika

¾ TSP   Rosemary

1   1/2 lbs.  crabmeat   2 cups tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped

6 Tbsp butter    1/2 cup water     1 cup cream    Salt & Pepper To Taste

Saute crabmeat in 2 Tbsp butter and 1/2 cup water until most of the water has evaporated and the remaining liquid is creamy.

In a separate saucepan, saute tomatoes in remaining butter, salt and pepper.

Reduce cream by one half with salt and pepper to taste.

To assemble, put cooked pasta on the plate.  Place 1/2 cup tomatoes on top and form a well into which you place 6 oz.  crabmeat.  Drizzle 1 oz. of reduced cream over and serve.      SERVES 4

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Saute escargot with chopped shallots and garlic in butter until hot.  Cover with equal amounts of Brandy and White Wine.  Simmer and reduce until syrupy.  Serve beside blackbean cake.

We do enjoy our seafood on the Outer Banks!

Applicable to Tuna, Shad, Mackeral, Bluefish or Sea Scallops

1 tsp Olive Oil      2 cups Soy Sauce    1/2 lb Dark Brown Sugar   

2 TBSP Kosher Salt     1 cup Cold Water   1 Lemon   1 Lime 

1/2 tsp Granulated Garlic   1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper  1/4 Cinnamon

2 lb Fish

Mix all ingredients well.  Add fish and cover.  Let marinate for two hours.  Drain well and place on rack.  Smoke for four hours according to manufacturer’s specifications for the smoke house.  Rotate racks to give even smoking and cooking to fish.  Let cool overnight or for four hours.  Slice and serve, or serve hot fresh out of the smoke house.  Finish cooking in 250 degrees oven if fish is thick.