Being tired from a long night chatting through thoughts and religion last night I came home today as early as possible to have a lovely evening by the log burner.
The tide was out upon my arrival home and so I set about a foragers dinner... moules sur le poêle à bois. (Well thats what google translate calls Mussels on the wood burner anyways!)
Recipe number 2! Mussels A La Woodburner!
First walk the 10meters from your boat to the mussel bed!
(Mussel bed is the gravelly looking stuff bottom right)
Collect a few mussels, choose the biggest ones as they've had time to live and make plenty of babies. Take only what you need, leave some for tomorrow.
Now bring them home put them in a shallow dish with some oats and slightly salted water, leave for 2 to 10 hours (according to the books i've read, i've heard slightly more and slightly less. Too long and they die, too short and they're full of grit and poo)
(My mussels purging in the frying pan)
After the time has elapsed pull the mussels out, if there open tap them on something hard, they should shut, if they don't discard. Then put them in the wood burner fire box so that the crack between the shells is horizontal.
Shut the door, and enjoy the smells and noise from the stove for 5-10 minutes.
While this is happening finely cut some garlic and some parsley in some olive oil and butter, and cook on the hob
After a while check the mussels, any that are open take the worst shell off, and keep the meat in the other shell, drizzle over a teaspoon of garlic oily butter, over the meat and put back in the woodburner to sizzle some more.
Once the meat goes abit rubbery and all the fluid is gone, pull out and enjoy!
(Beware shells and woodburner = very hot)
Enjoy the mussels!
Cooked Mussels
Empty shells at the end!
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