Making a Spinach Chiffonade for Oysters Rockefeller

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My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to shuck an oyster and how to prepare them a couple of different ways. Okay, next up is our spinach. So what we're going to do, we're just going to shake it out there. All of that spinach was in this one cup. So, what we're going to do now, we're going to chop our spinach up. The reason being is that you don't want one of these big spinach leaves going in with your oysters. So what we're doing is, I'm kind of laying the leaves a little flat here, and it doesn't have to be perfect. This makes things a easier to chop. It's also a good way to chop basil or anything else that's really leafy, lettuce too. Roll it up like that, take your knife, and this is referred to as a chiffonade. You've probably just seen basil like this on top of salads or on top of your pizza in some places. So, we're just going to do a little chiffonade of spinach here. And if you're really picky, you can de-stem it all, but you know what's going to happen as soon as you cook it, the stems just all turn to mush anyway. So, I'm not too concerned about it. If I were really trying to really impress somebody, I might take the stems out, but, you know, I'm just showing you a quick and easy way to make a Rockefeller. And taking the stems out is not quick, nor is it easy. We'd have to pick this entire pile, one by one and pull the stems out one by one. And that is not quick, nor is it easy. You do want to make sure you try to cut the stems up as best as you can though. If you see a stem that gets pass you, go back over it again and give it another whack of the knife. These are all the scrap pieces, so they're going to end up over here in this not quite normal looking pile compared to the other ones. It's kind of a messy pile. And you don't want to chop this up so small it's nothing. You want it to still have a lengthy kind of look to it, you know, almost like a blade of grass or something. Because that will give it some body on the actual finished product. If you were to cut that out of it, if you just to cut it down into little pieces, it would be mush, and you may as well throw it in the food processor. So, let's get started making our mixture for these and move right along.

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