Seafood Bread

Here's a fun one for an informal dinner party (known around here as Catan night). We made this a while ago. The recipe is from Jacques & Julia Cooking at Home. We used a 12" round loaf, hollowed it out, made some flavored butter, and filled the loaf up with seafood, a few mushrooms, and the butter. Then covered the top with a layer of bread crumbs and baked it in the oven. We used 1/2 lb each of salmon, scallops, shrimp, and mushrooms, all cut into 1-inch pieces.

The butter

Put 1 C parsley, 3 peeled shallots, and 5 cloves garlic into a food processor, and cup until minced. Add 1.5 sticks of room temperature butter, 1/2 tsp each of salt & pepper, and 3T dry white wine, and process until blended.

The bread bowl

Hollow it out, and use the insides to make bread crumbs in the food processor. Line it with a layer of butter, the add a layer of seafood, another butter layer, a layer of crumbs, the rest of the seafood, the rest of the butter, and then the rest of the crumbs. Bake at 400F for 1-1.5 hours. You can cover the bottom of the bread with foil if you don't want it to get too brown.