Clams Casino with a Twist

• 24 claims
• 1/4 cup of salt free butter (room temperature)
• 1 small greem pepper minced
• 1 teaspoon of minced parsley
• 1 tablespoon of minced celery
• 1/4 cups Italian bread crumbs
• 1 teaspoon of anchovy paste (optional)  Dad loved anchovy!
• 8 slices of bacon

Heat your oven at 425 degrees.  Clean you clams and open with a clam knife.  Cut your clam away from its shell but leave it in the half of a shell.  Mix together butter, green pepper, parsley, celery, bread crumbs and anchovy paste.  Mix this all well so it almost looks like a paste.  Spread the mixture onto you half shell.  Cut the bacon into half pieces and cover over the clam and the paste, if it needs more than the half of bacon, add more so it covers the top of the shell.  Bake these on a cookie sheet for 10-12 minutes or until you bacon is cooked.


If your clams are really big in size you may need to make more of the mixture.