Dinner success: mussels in cream sauce

Dinner success!

Menu:  mussels in a cream sauce with garlic and shallots, fresh French bread and grilled veggies

(bread bought, grilled veggies reheated from previous night)

MUSSELS

Prep:

- peel garlic, get ready to press directly into saucepan

- dice shallots

- measure cream

- measure chicken stock

- scrub mussels, throw out any that are anything other than tightly closed

1.  Use a big saucepan, coat bottom with butter

2.  Sweat 2 cloves garlic, 2 diced shallots

3.  Add 1/4 cup cream, 1/2 cup chicken stock

4.  Add pre-scrubbed mussels (2 lbs)

5.  Turn up heat, put on lid

6.  Watch mussels steam, open and turn orange. 

7.  Dish up mussels, pour sauce on top.

Recipe based on the basic one and chart of substitutions from How to Cook Everything.