Mussel soup

Ingredients:

3 cups water
half teaspoon salt
4 large mussels
half teaspoon white pepper
1 green onion stalk
1 tablespoon canola oil

Directions:

Place the salt in the water and bring to a boil. Add the mussels and
boil for fifteen minutes. Then add the pepper, canola oil and green
onion stalk and simmer under medium heat for five more minutes.

Makes 1 serving

wrote:

> Mussel soup
>
> Ingredients:
>
> 3 cups water
> half teaspoon salt
> 4 large mussels
> half teaspoon white pepper
> 1 green onion stalk
> 1 tablespoon canola oil
>
> Directions:
>
> Place the salt in the water and bring to a boil. Add the mussels and
> boil for fifteen minutes. Then add the pepper, canola oil and green
> onion stalk and simmer under medium heat for five more minutes.
>
> Makes 1 serving

4 large mussels and 3 cups of water???? Unless these mussels are of
colossal proportions, I don't see that water tasting anywhere near a
seafood soup.

R

> wrote in message
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> Mussel soup
>
> Ingredients:
>
> 3 cups water
> half teaspoon salt
> 4 large mussels
> half teaspoon white pepper
> 1 green onion stalk
> 1 tablespoon canola oil
>
> Directions:
>
> Place the salt in the water and bring to a boil. Add the mussels and
> boil for fifteen minutes. Then add the pepper, canola oil and green
> onion stalk and simmer under medium heat for five more minutes.
>
> Makes 1 serving
>
>
That's 3/4 cup of water! per mussel??? You can cook a scallion stalk in 5
minutes??
and then you eat that????
>
I feel sorry for you.
>>
Kent

On Jul 19, 11:52 pm, "Kent" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
>
> ps.com...
>
> > Mussel soup
>
> > Ingredients:
>
> > 3 cups water
> > half teaspoon salt
> > 4 large mussels
> > half teaspoon white pepper
> > 1 green onion stalk
> > 1 tablespoon canola oil
>
> > Directions:
>
> > Place the salt in the water and bring to a boil. Add the mussels and
> > boil for fifteen minutes. Then add the pepper, canola oil and green
> > onion stalk and simmer under medium heat for five more minutes.
>
> > Makes 1 serving
>
> That's 3/4 cup of water! per mussel??? You can cook a scallion stalk in 5
> minutes??
> and then you eat that????
>
> I feel sorry for you.
>
> Kent


You want the scallion stalk to be lightly cooked, so that it retains
some chewiness.