Mussels

by Full tummy 11 years ago

I recently purchased a bag and used it in a pasta sauce; it has mussels, squid rings, and octopus, among other types of seafood. While the squid rings were tender, everything else seemed pretty mu...

by Melanie Wong 1 year ago

Yes, we did have a chowdown last month in Baja California, meeting for the Festival de las Conchas y Vino Nuevo in Ensenada and Valle de Guadalupe. Sometimes just two of us and as many as five in o...

by Melanie Wong 1 year ago

Last May, glbtrtr reported on Pier 46 Seafood in Templeton. A week later I had a chance to try it myself. Trying to escape the 100-degree heat in Paso Robles, we had headed to Templeton which was a...

I've got a couple of cups of left-over mussel and clams broth. It was prepared with onion, garlic and tomatoes while steaming mussels and clams. I could freeze it and re-use it later, but tomorr...

Can't find a whole lot online about this. Where to go in Paris for the best mussels & fries? Help!

Looking for a place to get a good tap beer and appetizers. Sometimes we do not feel like a entre and would prefer to share a few appetizers. We are willing to drive a bit if necessary Sorry ...

by arielleeve 2 years ago

I bought a 2 pound bag of mussels yesterday. Forgot to transfer it out of the packaging when I got home. I bought them around 5 PM last night, realized at around 12:30 today. They have been stored ...

by pegasis0066 2 years ago

My daughter and her husband are coming over for dinner this weekend - she always requests mussels. I have exhausted most recipes (white wine, beer, coconut, pernod, lemon, saffron, etc.) - anyone ...

My preparation of this meal never lived up to the taste of a restaurant. Either my mussels do not pick up the sauce flavor or the sauce has no mussel flavor. The flavors just never blend. I am...

by JerryMe 9 years ago

Question - Clams are on sale and mussels are also on sale. How do they differ? I've never cooked clams (but I've had them in restaurants) and I've never eaten mussels. I live in an arid desert...

Hello, My boyfriend and I cooked this recipe this tonight for dinner: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/jeff-mauro/slow-cooker-thai-coconut-mussels.html We followed the recipe step by st...

Hubs and I are celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary soon. We live in the mid-west but love seafood. Needless to say we are not experts at cooking seafood due to the lack of availability. We are...

I absolutely love them and used to order them all the time. The first (and subsequently only) time I made them at home I became violently ill. I tend to think I did not prepare them properly. Anoth...

What is a good wine to pair with this food? also, roasted chicken? what is a good pairing for (in general) french rustic fare? i figure the mussels call for a white of some kind, maybe a ... c...

by notjustastomach 3 years ago

Brabant used to be a favorite go-to meeting place for a good friend of mine, a Belgian, and myself. A joyful and relaxed evening of eating mussels and drinking Belgian beer. Now that Brabant is no ...

Do you think it's acceptable or safe for that matter to find beards and a Barnicles INSIDE a mussel? i was served these mussels in a restaurant with a pasta dish, pretty disguised. ..

When I lived in Maine, I was told that you shouldn't eat mussels that don't open when they are cooked, because that indicates that the mussel was dead before it was cooked. My husband disregards th...

by iheartcooking 4 years ago

I've got a pregnant craving!!! And there's no restaurants in the area that I trust to cook mussels for me the careful ways that I've read about on the Home Cooking threads. I think I can handle t...