RECIPE FOR: Oysters with Garlic Pine Nut Butter

Ingredients: 1/4 cup Pine nuts 3 Garlic cloves; peeled 2 Shallots; peeled 2 tb Parsley, fresh; chopped 2 tb Chives, fresh; chopped

2 tb Juice, lemon 1 tb Brandy 1 ts Pepper, black 3/4 cup Butter; room temperature 18 Oysters; in shells, scrubbed Rock salt

Method
Scatter pine nuts in a pie plate and bake in a 180ºC oven until golden, 4-6 minutes. Pour toasted nuts into a food processor along with the garlic, shallots, parsley, chives, lemon juice, brandy and pepper; whirl until finely chopped. Slowly add the butter and pulse until just blended; bits of all the ingredients should still be visible. Shuck oysters and discard top shells. Nestle oysters, in their bottom shells, in a 1/2 inch layer of rock salt in a baking pan or shallow oven-proof dish. Spoon about 1 teaspoon butter on top of each oyster (freeze leftover butter) Bake oysters in a 180ºC oven until they become firm and butter melts, 8-10 minutes.