Steamed Clams with Garlic/Butter/Thyme Broth

Our trip to Costco also granted us a bag of littleneck clams.

I wanted to try something a bit different, so I thought

it would be fun to cook up some clams.

I found a clam and tomato broth recipe, but at the last

minute I altered the plan.  One...it was too 

similar to the recipe I used for the red snapper the other day.

Two..I wanted to use butter and garlic!

I looked at several recipes online, and then just

used the basic components from a few of them.

I used grape seed oil, garlic, white wine, thyme, 

parsley and red pepper flakes.

After about 7-8 minutes of steaming, almost all of the clams opened.

I think we only had about 5 that didn't and therefore I discarded them.

Plated simply in a bowl, to hold the broth, I added

some crusty bread.  Dutchess came up with a saying...

"dip it.  clam it.  stuff it!"

Dip the bread into the broth, put a clam on it, then stuff it into your mouth!!!!

Zachary was a trooper, and he ate about 5 clams, then bailed for 

a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

I can't blame him.  At least he gave them a try.

Dutchess and I loved the garlicy goodness, 

and we ate almost the whole sack.

Feed, the flock was!