Pan Fried MUSSELS | Bart van Olphen 

* grill/toast = grill OR toast

Thank you, enjoy!

Nita F I ate them

Unfortunately not!

I used flat leaf parsley, it does look like coriander.

but parsley leaves have sharp tips

There's two main types, a quick google should give you images of both the curly and flat leaf parsley. They both taste the same imo

Hayden Miscat There is a difference in flavour between the two. Curly parsley have more of a peppery taste, while flat leaf parsley is more delicate. So curly parsley is great for sauces and pot dishes, where you often need a stronger flavour, while flat leaf parsley is great for fish or pasta dishes. Curly parsley on a dish like this would most likely taste too powerful.

That's not what he said.

@that guy kids in France drink wine with meals, maybe the same in the Netherlands

That Guy I think thats what he meant tough. His sentences are not always 100% clean, as it's not his native language

That Guy take a chill pill

What's your definition of a chill pill?

FoodStoned FoodStoned FoodStoned Hi! Actually the mussels I used are farmed. In The Netherlands we have two types of mussel farming, some are rope grown and some are bottom grown. The ones I used are bottom grown. The mussels are grown on these "mussel plots" in the Oosterschelde where the fishermen first harvest mussel seed out of wild, then let them grow big enough before spreading them on one of their mussel plots. These plots are long strips of sea bed where the mussels are laying. They are very well managed, the fishermen know on almost centimeters exact where their mussels are. Once the mussels are big enough, they scoop them up with these nets. The sea bed is not damaged because there are only mussels there. This way of growing mussels is really sustainable and therefore certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The only bycatch that you are pointing out are sea stars who regenerate. I should have explained better that these mussels are farmed. Hope this explains! Please have a look at the MSC page for more specific info: fisheries.msc.org/en/fisheries/netherlands-blue-shell-mussel/@@view

Bart's Fish Tales I definitely appreciate the explanation. I've never heard of that type of mussel farming and in the video with all the seaweed and sea stars, it looks like it's destroying the sea bed. Glad to know that's not the case.

Also, if you're interested, I just published a book of fresh water lake Fish recipes as a way of potentially looking to other sources of fish to help supplement ocean catches. Since lake fish aren't something typically available on the commercial scale here in the U.S. I tried to come up with some ideas as to how we might approach this underused resource in the future. www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/lake-fish