When you're looking for an elegant meal that's easy to cook, you can't go wrong with clams and mussels. But you may be ...

Mussels need very little cooking. Place them in the bottom of a large, heavy-based pan with a small amount of liquid and turn up the heat to steam them. As soon as the shells start gaping open ...

Remove the 'beard' and one shell from each ... as long as they sit in the cooking liquid. Check that all the mussels are tightly closed and wash well in several changes of water.

Mussels and fries, or moules-frites ... The meat inside the shells should cook gently in the broth until just warmed through.

Clams and mussels shells should be slightly open ... James Peterson, author of Fish & Shellfish: The Cook's Indispensable Companion recommends placing ice over the towel, and most experts ...

Freshwater mussels are culturally significant because they were harvested by American Indians and early pioneers for use as food, jewelry and tools. Before the development of plastic, buttons were ...

If, on the other hand, you are serving mussels out of the shell, tossed with pasta ... Once I’ve cleaned them, one of my favourite ways of cooking them is to place 2kg in a large pot with ...

Simmering in pots around the world is a food that could spark a revolution ... evolutionarily simpler family of shell-dwelling creatures consisting of mussels, clams, oysters and scallops.