Tafel Tuesday #1: Rockefeller Mignonette

Welcome to Tafel Tuesday. Every week we are going to post, in order, a track from Tafelmuzik Means More… as individual elements of a three and a half plus hour dinner party. Each course will have a recipe and visuals to project or play on your giant screen TV if you want to go all the way surrealist dining at your outdoor Covid safe extravagant dinner event.

Rockefeller Mignonette Recipe:

For standing around chit-chatting from a safe social distance before sitting down to eat, I enjoy a nice bubbly (pictured above) and some tiny Kumamoto oysters with a mignonette of the elements involved in oysters Rockefeller.

One cup champagne vinegar.
Half small white onion shallot.
Eighth bunch parsley finely chopped.
Quarter teaspoon crushed black peppercorns.
One shot of Pernod.
One garlic clove pressed.
One spinach leaf minced super fine.
One tablespoon parmesan finely grated.

Leave out the spinach, herbs, and parmesan cheese (these ingredients you will add when you serve), combining all of the main ingredients in a decorative bowl and chilling in fridge for an hour before serving.

*regarding spinach, herbs, and parmesan cheese you can mix these in right before you put this out, or if you wanna add extra work for yourself, you can sprinkle a tiny pinch of each directly on to each oyster before serving

Also have a teensy spoon for each guest to get the mignonette onto their oyster whilst staying safe.

Created by C.T.T. and Anne West