Mussels for Dinner?

Hi there!

Based on the previous post, I had an interesting question (tongue-in-cheek I'm sure) from an old friend who wanted to remain anonymous. It went something like this...

"Do you have any recipes for the mussels that we get out of our sea water cooling system? They seem to like to grow in the tubes where [for them, I suppose] it's nice and warm in the summer. They are a strange shape (look like mini-cigars) but by the time we clean them out, they're already steamed!"

Well Buck, I have to say that if they're already steamed, the choices are rather limited. I suspect if you put them in the refrigerator for a while and then served them on fresh lettuce with horseradish and mayonaise, they could be delicious. At least as long as you didn't have any HC leaks into the cooling water!

Another choice, albeit not so traditional, would be to serve them up in an icecream glass with a little lettuce for decoration and the American shrimp cocktail sauce - ketchup, horseradish, Worcester sauce, and lemon juice.

Any other ideas? :-) Bon appetite!

Craig