Hi Linda , that's a funny story , I did the same with the spanish paella , I
did the shells in a napkin , and brought them home .Though these are
yellowish , due to the rice in the paella !
I still have to clean them , there are mostly some venus clams , and Mactra
in it . It tasted very good anyway ,
Bye , Jan Neefs

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Van: "Linda Bush" <[log in to unmask]>
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Verzonden: woensdag 13 september 2000 22:12
Onderwerp: You never know where you'll find shells


> Hi!
>     Monday I took my husband out for a birthday lunch at a Chinese buffet,
and there on the steam table, labelled "Greek Mussels" was not an "edulis"
but a mussel with emerald green periostracum, with brown longitudinal
stripes.  The only "green"
> mussel I could find in my books was "viridis,"  which is not from Greece.
(Could the recipe have been Greek?)   Does anyone know what I have (of
course, I brought the shells home; too bads I couldn't get the matching
valves, short of going through their dumpster later that night, and my
husband would have said a definite NO to that).   Does anyone know what I
might have.   It does look as if there is one tooth in one valve, and two in
the other, but I'm not sure of that.
>
> Thanks,
> Linda Bush
>