There's lots to love about mussels: They're inexpensive, quick-cooking, readily available, and incredibly versatile, not to mention delicious. Mussels can be prepared with many methods — steamed, ...

Tiger mussels, known as tigres in Spanish cuisine, are a flavorful seafood appetizer made with mussel meat, a creamy béchamel filling, and a crispy breadcrumb coating. The mixture is traditionally ...

Quick-cooking, sweetly flavored and with a friendly price tag (between $5 and $7 per pound), mussels are a near-perfect food. If you’re already a fan, you’re nodding your head, and if you’re not yet ...

Bivalves — clams, mussels and oysters — can seem intimidating if you’re not used to cooking them. But they don’t have to be: Simple recipes and bold flavors below can help grow your confidence in ...

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 ...

David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Steaming a pot of mussels couldn’t be easier for a quick, satisfying meal. Cooked simply with garlic, shallots and white wine, they ...

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