Who remembers Cole Porter's classic Let's Fall in Love? The one that starts "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it… " And somewhere around verse three it goes "Why ask if shad do it? Waiter bring me shad roe!"
Plenty more peeps have heard the song than enjoyed a plate of shad roe, so herewith is a recipe for Classic Shad Roe with Bacon that would make Cole and his crowd crow with delight. You will too when you prepare a platter of this seasonal specialty.
Lord knows shad roe are odd looking things. But looks aside they've got a great pedigree: completely seasonal (spring); local (a specialty of our Eastern Seaboard waterways); a great American tradition, and they are served with thick strips of deliciously crisp bacon.
What could be bad?
My late, great friend David Carey (not to be confused with the very much alive D.C. currently at the helm of Hearst Magazines) had a weekend house in Lambertville, NJ out on the Pennsylvania border. When the shad starting running every spring little Lambertville went into a shad frenzy. Shad fishing tournaments, community shad roasts, shad fish and shad roe a special on every restaurant and inn menu for miles around, including the Rodgers and Hart real, live, actual "Small hotel, with a wishing well, I wish that we could be there together…" (Having a romantic shad roe supper no doubt.) Every child sported the cutest little "I'm a little shadster!" t-shirts. What's not to love?
To recap, here's why you simply must give this recipe for Classic Shad Roe with Bacon a go:
1. It proves you've got the urbane sophistication of Cole Porter as well as the more populist touch of Rodgers and Hart.
2. Shad is all that we want our food to be: local, artisianal, seasonal, sustainable, wild caught.
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3. Think of the children! Only a heart of stone would disappoint the little shadsters.
Shad roe come in pairs, dark red sacs that need only a dusting of flour and a short sauté in butter. The trick is watchful cooking — just long enough to cook through but not a moment longer lest they turn hard and loose their luscious creaminess.
For an occasion like this double-smoked thick-cut bacon is the only way to go, If not now, when? If not you, who?
The plate above shows another seasonal specialty, asparagus, which we will be addressing shortly.
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