[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lauren!

You Divas always ask for favorites......It's just not right! Whether its hot dogs and hamburgers, Carolina ribs, Texas style barbecue or roast kid from Argentina....they're all favorites. Even Tamar's Kal Bi is a treat any day.

But when I was a kid in upstate NY, on the Fourth of July, we would have a Yankee clam bake. My grandfather would go to Fulton Street in NYC and come back with a fifty pound sack of steamers,a century weight of seaweed, a bushel or two of oysters, we'd have chickens and potatoes and corn from the farm. Grandma and the girls would make the sauces and butters.

The whole thing would be cooked and steamed in a pit fired by hardwoods burned to coals and covered with river rocks, a tarp, layers of seaweed and all the stuff wrapped in gauze, clams on the top. The oysters were shucked and served raw with sauce and beer.

I miss those clambakes.

[AZamericonnie]

I miss those clambakes.

I salivate for one of those clambakes!

Aloha Bigs...*Hugs*

[luvie]

Goodness that sounds good, Big Guy.

Hope you have a wonderful 4th of July with your family!

[TASMANIANRED]

Now that is a 4th of July celebration.