Chic and Bubbly

I had friends coming over for dinner last Saturday so I gave it a shot to make this great seafood pasta dish, linguine with clams in seafood broth,  that I found in La Cucina Italiana Magazine. Fantastic(!) compostion of different pasta types for La Cucina Italiana's special PASTA edition! Le me planning the dinner menu: Working hard to take one decent photo of the pasta dish: Y U No zoom in? :) Anyways... so here is the recipe for this delicious and very easy to make pasta dish: Ingredients: Seafood Broth (Although I wanted to make the broth from scratch, Whole Foods was out of white fish so I had to cancel that step from preparing the dish and got their pre-made seafood broth.) 3 1/4 pounds cockles or small little neck clams, well scrubbed (Get them from Whole Foods, they scrub them for you.) 2 tablespoons cornmeal Fine sea salt 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/2 cup finely chopped fla...

It's incredibly easy to make steamed mussels. The only difficult and time consuming part is: debearding and cleaning the mussels... Ingredients 6 pounds mussels 1 cup dry white whine 3 shallots, minced 1 clove garlic, minced and then crushed with the side of the knife (optional) Pinch of chopped fresh or dried thyme (optional) 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley 4 tablespoons butter (optional) Preparation (Makes 4 first-course servings) 1. Brush the mussels under cold running water. 2. Place the scrubbed ones in a bowl full of ice to prevent them from openning. ...Extra...Extra...Extra... I found an awesome YouTube video on "How to debeard, clean and store mussels" by GoodFishBook: ...Extra...Extra...Extra... 3. Combine the wine, shallots, garlic, and thyme in a large pot, cover, bring to a simmer over low heat, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the mussels all at once, cover the pot, raise the hea...