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First dive in and get your mussels, I dive into Pack and save and also grab a pack of beer batter. Mix up homebrew beer batter or use that stuff you buy and set aside. Now setup and open the raw mussels onto a bowl, no crabs or whiskers and drain off excess liquid . When ready heat skillet with oil, dip mussels in batter and fry till nice and brown, could have a swag of chips going in the oven as well, must have your vegetables, washed down with a brew great stuff.
how do you open the mussel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN3o0YVP6s8 @stingray the youtube one you posted was easier ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scooby
I love battered mussels-not quite as much as oysters but still good.
Not really fritters though
Nar, if you mince them up you get a lump of batter with a vague mussel taste, whole mussel bingo you get the full Monty and you could mix in to the raw mussels some garlic and sweet chilli sauce, then into the batter, look I'm dribbling all over the key board , off to get some. :P
Haven't ad proper mussels for about 5 years. living in aussie until 18months ago and just don't get out to get them there. I was there 10 odd years.
oddly enough came over for the lads u17 club footy trip to the north island. Only kiwis in the group. Had a feed of greasies at a fish and chippy just back from Kelly tarltons. second time I've been there. Fantastic feed. Suggested they try the battered oysters and mussels-for some reason they don't batter oysters in NSW
general consensus was they were very good. Mussels not as much but still alright.
Yer, the ones you get for the F/Chip shops are first steamed open then cooked in batter, you get a lump of rubber. All seafood should be cooked from raw, but it`s not bad raw as well, I just don`t go a bundle on the Kina. :XD:
never tried kina, but from reports doubt I will
To be fair, I don't remember them being that rubbery, It's the taste. they still tasted good but not the same as oysters.
Had a mussel fritter at the Covi Motor Home show yesterday for $9
Had a lot better homemade ones
Now if you want good fush and chups the best of the best is the Mangonui fish shop, absolutely delish bluenose and then if you get a craving for a hole lot more sea food head down to Stewart Island. Hunting trips down there are a gouramy of sea food exstragaza , it`s hard to do any hunting. :o
Haven't done a stewie island trip since the early 90's but yup we generally did alright out of the sea, had to coz there was feckall deer around.
I think that was when we won the Americas cup in the big boat.
I'm in CHCH so unless Mangonui is close to Kaiapoi, they will be cold by the time I get them home.
Those grey ghost on Steward Island are cunning little buggers, very lucky if you see a bum. Look for a F/ chip shop that sells fresh sea food, get a pot of opened raw mussels and have them cooked as fritters with a scoop of chips, You will taste the difference to the steamed ones.
I wasn't much of a hunter back then, actually still not that flash so wasn't like I was going to see heaps. not many around either trip I did.
like your idea about the raw mussels
And not only but also wok steamed mussels, get 20 live in the shell , can of coconut milk and sweet chili sauce. Wack the mussels onto the wok with half tin of the milk about to two TBL spoons of sweet chili sauce, bit of garlic and crack on the heat, cook until all or most are open. Dive in, the quickest gets the most. Bugger, my computers floating.
You can add a packet of Maggi seafood soup mix to the batter for some extra flavor, dip in the mussels ,cook and eat, yum.
tell ya what -ya want mussels fresh-go to westport and drive from there upto seddonville along the coast .stop periodically and look for big rocks.
low tide -go get ya feet wet and i promise ya a mussel-oodles of the bastrds -big plumpsweet -in the saucepan with a smidgeon of ya pet poisonand let em stem-holly fuck gotta get me life jacket on im drowning in saliva.its that sweet but briny taste on the tongue ,that wee chewty texture but above all -FFs no cart no supermarket,no checkout ,no carpark ,just the mighty tasman sea ,mother nature and a bloody great day out.
PS who nees flash gymn gear when ya go musselin.
PS if you do find a silver penknife its bloody mine!
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Closer to Grey, would 9 mile. Just over the river on main road (strongman mine access road on right), park up. Beach, go south to the rocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
The mussels were great when no1 was in operation, went a bit crap when no2 was open, unsure now. BUT I think they would be all good.
Many a time on that beach with a fire going and a section on corogated roof iron on it to cook them (the irons great as it stops them falling off - just let it heat up and burn off paint and some of the galv first....)
My mums cousin had a bach at woodpeckers. My uncle had one next door but got out in the early 70's.
Had a couple of good feeds of musseld from out there when I went out.
A good friend of mine lives pretty much there now.
even better is mussels cooked on a well seasoned breastfed MOW shovel blade-got to be the realdeal not one of these DIYstore chinese imports.
speaking of which if ya were a guts a good feed could be had off a coalminers banjo shovel gently heating over a driftwood fire. the old 4gla kero tim was always a handy one to have two if you had a few with hefty appetites eyein up the seas bounty!
BTW was it 9 or 12mile that were also rumoured to be pretty flush with easy picking crays in those days.??
12 for crays.Quote:
Originally Posted by kotuku
Although I didn't go for them, as had a pretty good supplier (family fishermen) and at the time they weren't that special.
cheers ,had a funny feeling it was 12mile .incidentally was talking to a bloke I havent seen for 25+yrs just recently and we had a good old yarn about those days and the abundant free tucker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beaker
also used to be good mussels out in front of the old greyhound pub at arahura although IIRC you needed permission form the local maori which generally wasnt a problem if you minded your P&Qs and didnt abuse the privelege.those buggers were particularly tasty marinated with onions in ye old malt vinegar-it used to be a mate of mines party piece -never bought a jar ,always a tub of his special mussels!