culinary adventures - under the sea

so i was cruising todd's independent grocer in haliburton and i saw bags of mussels. they looked very pretty - smooth, black shells with a lovely sheen and nice pattern in the lines and whorls all purple net bags.

$4 a bag.

i thought "i can do that" - i always wanted to try mussels but, quite frankly, the look put me off.

so i looked in my Irish Pub Recipes cookbook and found a recipe involving cream, guinness, garlic, onion, and butter and sounded quite tasty.

everything proceeded as to plan and i tried the first mussel. then the second. a third, just to confirm:


it was like eating creamy, garlicky snot balls.