Mmm..the coast of Maine
One of the best things about the Atlantic coast is being able to find juicy tidbits to bring to your dinner table. One of my favorite are the blue mussels which carpet the rocks around Mt Desert Isle. Some interesting facts about these mussels:
One pound of mussels, in the shell, yields three and one-half ounces of raw mussel meat or l00 grams that is the equivalent of 95 calories, 14 g. of protein, 2.1 g. of fat, .5 g saturated fat, 55 mg. cholesterol, and sodium 284 mg.
- They filter water (up to 20 gallons a day!)
- Easy to feed, Mussels can find 20 million edible tidbits to graze on in just a liter of seawater.
- They can walk. Mussels have an appendage called a foot, that enables them crawl.
Blue mussells spawn in the summer and lose a lot of the stuff you can eat, so pick them in winter and spring.
Try sauteeing them in garlic and butter and white wine....
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