{"id":271,"date":"2011-02-26T15:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2011-02-26T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:34:59","slug":"angry-devil-mussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Angry (Devil) Mussels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post is a throw back to Valentine’s Day.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it’s been almost two weeks, but the cooking Meg and I got up to was so good I have to recall to this ancient history and write about it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"A few weeks before V-day, after grabbing brunch with friends at the Essex Cafe in the Lower East Side, we swung into the Essex Market<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Essex Market is a combination of a super market, a farmers market, and random food boutiques (including cheese!).\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, the market probably deserves a return trip and a post of it’s own. But I digress.\u00c2\u00a0 As we were walking around the market, passing a 1pm beer party at the butcher station, we ran across the seafood area and saw them: bags of mussels for $2.50 a pound. I think that it must be the landlocked Midwesterner in me but I just always assume that any protein coming out of the ocean is going to be expensive. \u00c2\u00a0 Whenever I realized how wrong I am my head starts racing with culinary schemes.\u00c2\u00a0 But since mussels don’t live long and we already had dinner planned we decided to wait on tasty denizens of the sea.<\/p>\n

But\u00c2\u00a0 then, the Friday before Valentine’s, Meg went out to lunch with an old\u00c2\u00a0 boss and saw Angry Mussels on the app menu.\u00c2\u00a0 She didn’t try them there, but was inspired for an at-home go.<\/p>\n

As it seems with many things, I’m wasn’t happy with name other people gave this dish and decided that I was going to start calling them the Devil’s Mussels or Devil Mussels instead of Angry Mussels.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean mussels aren’t like bears, they can’t look angry!\u00c2\u00a0 And, with the spicy ingredients, the Devil’s Mussels is a fitting name.<\/p>\n

The first thing we had to do was get mussels, and finding them at Whole Foods for $5 for a 2 pound bag we just had to get two of the 2 pound bags.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s right, 4 pounds of mussels for two people.\u00c2\u00a0 Bring it on!<\/p>\n

The next step is cooking the mussels.\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to go with steaming, which is super easy!\u00c2\u00a0 First you make a tasty liquid mixture in a big pot. (You don’t need much liquid – only an inch or two.) \u00c2\u00a0 In the case of the Devils Mussels, we put together<\/p>\n