"Bonus" seafood

[hrj]

I've grown rather fond of the green mussels dish at Sea Salt -- one of the restaurants in walking distance from work. I'd never tried making it at home before because it requires rather precise timing between shopping for the mussels and preparing dinner, but today I was looking for something a little light and the timing was right so I decided to go for it. This is the dish where you saute some garlic, shallots, bell pepper, mushrooms, or anything else you like, toss in some white wine (or in my case, hard cidar, since that's what I have lying around), cook off the alcohol, then put in the scrubbed mussels (and a couple shrimp) and cover until the mussels have steamed open. Eat with a little bread to dip in the broth. Anyway, it was delicioius, but I was a bit startled to look into one of the opened mussels and see a little steamed crab staring back at me. In fact, two out of my six mussels were thus inhabited. Harmless, but a triffle disconcerting. (I declined to eat the crabs.)

It's been a very SCA-ish weekend, considering that I didn't attend any events. Yesterday was G&C's cheese and port tasting party, after which I went off with klwilliams to see Stardust (micro-review: delightful and not-at-all-formulaic fairy tale; see it). Today was a work party at Ed Levin park to start building up volunteer credits for next year's events there. I was on the crew dead-heading invasive hemlock on the nature trail. Less strenuous, but much less satisfying, than the Spring version: digging up invasive hemlock by the roots. Having now participated in an entire year's cycle of hemlock eradication (2 dead-headings, 1 rooting out) I can almost imagine I see progress. It makes backyard blackberry eradication pale in comparison.

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[julesjones]

*Can't*. And I haven't even had any codeine yet this morning.