Since there's nothing to shoot with my bow right now…

[Ptaylor]

#3659

…It’s mussels for dinner!

[David Coulter]

#22318

Beauty. Dig them in a river? Dwc

[Ptaylor]

#22325

Ocean Dwc.

[paleoman]

#22341

That’s a pretty picture! How do you prepare those and are they any different than river mussels? Which, btw I thought would be neat to try when I was a kid and they ate like a rubber ball. But then I was young and dumb (not that there’s been a huge improvement!) and had no idea how to cook them.

[Ptaylor]

#22454

I modified a recipe from “The Compleat Clammer”:

sauteed garlic and mushrooms (chanterelles, hedgehogs, shitakes)

cup of white wine and steamed the mussels

pulled mussels out of shell and returned to broth

added tomato paste, canned chopped tomatoes

Oregano, paprika, dried onion flakes, salt, bread crumbs

Served over linguini with cilantro, lemon, and stinky parmesan.

It was delicious!

[Robin Conrads]

#22462

And then you shot your bow, right? 😉 Have you learned nothing from colmike?

Sounds tasty!

[Col Mike]

#22467

Paleo

Never tried fresh water mussels, and as they are filter feeders probably won’t. But the ones from cold sea water you jest pop in the steamer and when the open up they are done–some lemon juice and man your talking a feast. Can do the seaweed in sand clam bake–but I could never wait that long. Never cook to long then they turn to rubber. Likely our ancestors ate them like I sometimes do–raw–with the appropriate beverage.

Ptaylor if this is an example of meals you provide in your new business–I may have to visit sooner:D

Mike

[Ralph]

#22493

To shoot bows? Right Mike:?:?

You guys that live around water sure eat some strange looking stuff. 🙄

[Col Mike]

#22504

R2

Of course. By the way what we eat can be slippery.

[Col Mike]

#22511

Webmother wrote: And then you shot your bow, right? 😉 Have you learned nothing from colmike?

Sounds tasty!

Of course mom–touche!:D

[Ptaylor]

#22608

Yep, shot our bows yesterday, but before going gathering! Today it rained almost all day and I don’t have an indoor place to shoot at my house, so no bows.

Mike, if I had the strength to carry 20 pounds of extra weight into the wilderness I would bring clams and mussels along, but not sure if I’m that tough!

[Ptaylor]

#22611

I ran into a guy the other day who dives for sea urchin and sells them to the sushi restaurants. Once in a while I get an order of it, and it is really odd on the tongue.

[drew4fur]

#22770

I used to live in Coastal Alaska, and the mussels, to use the parlance of our times, OMG!! For my taste buds, I don’t think ANYYTHING beats fresh mussels!

[Ralph]

#23190

I do like some slimy (slippery) foods. Escargot, oysters, fried clams, smoked squid etc..

None of them collectible with a bow but perhaps maybe so when out stumping or something. 😀

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#23202

Ptaylor wrote: I ran into a guy the other day who dives for sea urchin and sells them to the sushi restaurants. Once in a while I get an order of it, and it is really odd on the tongue.

I once spent three days on a beach in Tierra del Fuego, stuck in a storm, with almost nothing to eat besides sea urchin gonads. Not sure I could ever eat another one. But that’s a story for another time….8)

That mussel recipe sounds like perfection!

[Charles Ek]

#23325

drew4fur wrote: I used to live in Coastal Alaska, and the mussels, to use the parlance of our times, OMG!! For my taste buds, I don’t think ANYYTHING beats fresh mussels!

Ditto on all counts. ‘Cept for Dall sheep. Shot with a bow. 😉

(For the record, the only time I’ve been able to shoot a Dall sheep personally was with a 500 mm lens.)

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