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Medwayman

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fresh from the shore not 1 hour ago, suggestions please.

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Flush the mussels with cold water in a basin, should any of them fail to open discard them. Remove all the beardy bits.
Place one bottle of Blonde beer in a pan, a couple of cloves of garlic crushed with some fish stock (a cube is fine) add the mussels, cover and bring to the boil... simmer for about four minutes or until the mussels have all opened.
Toasted French bread & butter to mop up the tasty stock or some skinny fries (with mayonnaise if you like)
The cockles can be cooked in much the same way but they cook faster and I prefer them with the buttered toast.
If you overcook them they will go rubbery but still taste fine.
 
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Ystranc said:
Flush the mussels with cold water in a basin, should any of them fail to open discard them. Remove all the beardy bits.
Place one bottle of Blonde beer in a pan, a couple of cloves of garlic crushed with some fish stock (a cube is fine) add the mussels, cover and bring to the boil... simmer for about four minutes or until the mussels have all opened.
Toasted French bread & butter to mop up the tasty stock or some skinny fries (with mayonnaise if you like)
The cockles can be cooked in much the same way but they cook faster and I prefer them with the buttered toast.
If you overlook them they will go rubbery but still taste fine.
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You beat me to it except I would use white wine
 
Beer, in a moules mariniere...barbaric. Leave the mussels overnight in clean water, add a handful of oats which helps de-grit them. I'd pickle the clams/cockles in wine or cider vinegar with a pinch of chili powder added.
 
Nah!, I love my shell fish....I have to stop myself picking cockles when I go down to Llanstephan. My favourite has got to be smoked potted shrimp served hot on toast so that the bread is soaked in smelly fishy butter...food of the gods!
 
Ystranc said:
Nah!, I love my shell fish....I have to stop myself picking cockles when I go down to Llanstephan. My favourite has got to be smoked potted shrimp served hot on toast so that the bread is soaked in smelly fishy butter...food of the gods!
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There weren't no shrimp around when God was born so how do you know it's the food of the gods? And don't give me the BS that your a God cos there ain't no gods in Wales
 
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