Becca wrote:
> cybercat wrote:
>> Anybody make this at home? I have googled up some recipes, and they
>> all vary a bit from what I recall having at this Houston restaurant
>> many years ago.
>>
>> It was scallops and oysters wrapped tightly in bacon, skewered and
>> grilled, served with lemon and some kind of red sauce for dipping that
>> was not cocktail, not bbq, something kind of in between.
>>
>> I don't own a functioning grill, so am going to to it in the broiler,
>> I think.
>
> Sounds good, let us know how it turns out. I enjoyed the Atchafalya
> Cafe, I liked the variety in the basket of bread they brought to the
> table. This was the first time I ever tasted sweet corn bread. Ugh, I
> thought, "what is this!", later I came to like it. lol
>
>
> Becca
Grilled or broiled oysters wrapped in bacon was called "Angels on
Horseback" back in the sixties. Pretty good too.

I ate at the Atchafalya Cafe a couple of times in the early nineties but
don't remember it as being especially good. May just be my fading memory.