Suddenly, mussels are everywhere in my life. Just a month ago, I gobbled up a bowl at the legendary Cliff House in San Francisco overlooking the raging Pacific Ocean. The black shells were intertwined ...

Seafood may be good for us, but there's no getting around the fact that it is expensive stuff here in the Pacific Northwest. You will pay a pretty penny for a family's worth of local salmon, halibut ...

A guide to buying, storing, and cooking mussels that will give you the confidence to prepare mussel dishes at home. If the idea of cooking mussels intimidates you, you’re not alone. But take heart, ...

Quick—name a dish that's inexpensive, quick-cooking, fancy enough for a party, but easy enough to make on a weeknight. If you said mussels, we're on the same wavelength. These tasty bivalves are a ...

NEW YORK (WLNY) -- Steamed mussels are a popular choice for many seafood lovers, but few are brave enough to try them at home. The new executive chef at Chelsea hot spot Pounds & Ounces, Jeff Kreisel, ...

Mussels are likely the sort of thing that you’d order at an old school French restaurant, but would never pick up at the store. (Maybe one time you saw a recipe asking you to “remove their beards” and ...

Most people haven’t cooked many — if any — mussels in their lifetimes. Just the sight of that little cluster of blue-black shells is sometimes enough to send one scurrying back toward more familiar ...

Black-shelled mussels are in their season now, one of the better — and better-priced — sources of protein for quick meals. Buy mussels at markets or grocers that traffic in fish; turnover is key to ...

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ...