I think I hurt myself. Lol.

Made two sauces.
One was a simple pesto and wht wine sauce. OO, basil, pine nuts, garlic. Pretty standard pesto....

The other was a simple clam sauce of OO, butter, wht wine, garlic, shallot, fresh chopped parsley and oregano, pinch of red pepper flakes, squeeze of lemon, and of course S&P.

I piled both sauté pans full of beautiful little Manila clams and steamed them for a couple minutes.

Boiled up a pot of linguine and tore a big loaf of fresh crusty bread in half.

Cold beer.

I couldn't stop.

Sounds f$&:@"g great to me!!!!

Me too !!

I have tried more than once, and the only way that I like clams is in clam chowder. miles

MM, Nice recipes on the sauce!

Inhaled a big batch of clams last night myself!.. and mussels, and Sea Bass, and sushi, and shrimp..

Oyster bin was empty, though..

I get all the clams I want for free. A buddy farms them over at Cedar Key.

I mostly steam them, and dip them in butter with lemon juice

I gotta get you a bigger cooler.. one that'll make it from G'ville to south of south cooooollllldddddd.

Love linguine and clams!

Also clam cakes and fried clams. Mmmmm!

That's how I get mine as well. Buddy has a shell fish business. Clams and oysters out of Quilcene Bay.

Have a few dozen oysters to schuck and grill for this weekend as well!

yeh

shellfish, pasta, garlic ,butter plus a good wine and
a fresh baguette

does it get any better?

Nope.

Just when I was starting to like you.....

You suck.....

The closest I get to fresh shell fish is the freezer at Wall Mart....

Hah!
Come on out. I know where to get more

Sauté in evoo and garlic tip they pop, great stuff!!

Winner! But why stop there?


Add mussels with the clams, shrimp, scallops and maybe a can of diced clams. Calamari can be added as well.

The lobster tails are optional but in this case they were staring me in the face at the market so I threw them in.

Grab a home made fusilli if you can and have at it. Feeds an army.

Bob, that looks awesome. You've obviously got access to some great seafood up there.

Looks Great, You guys are making me hungry

Just smoked some Salmon.Have to figure out how to attach pics.

local dirt: Thanks! We sure do!

As a first gen American of Italian immigrants the house saw a lot of fish. Clams, oysters and mussels did nothing for me as I was forced to gag over them nor as an adult where I could choose. Abalone ranks the same. That said, my dear Mother would bread oysters, fry them and feed them to my two older son's (then 4 and 6) telling them it was chicken. They ate the hell out of them and still do 20 years later. Me? No.

Ed my heritage is the same as yours and as a kid, recall being dragged around rocks and surf with my maternal grandparents picking mussels and periwinkles for a tomato gravy.

That got it started and I never stopped. Seafood of some kind gets served here 3-4 times a week.

Growing up in Rhode Island, during the '40's and '50's, and being fishermen, we had seafood often. Seafood was abundant and cheap. Haddock, tuna, bass, eels, lobster, clams (Quohogs, Little Necks,...). Sometimes yearn for fried clams and clam cakes. And coffee cabinets (coffee milkshakes)

Pal; The food we all considered "cheap" back then has become gourmet quality and expensive today!

every 2 weeks or so, the girlfriend and I pick up a 50 count bag of little necks.

Man...steam them critters and dip them in some melted butter.... That right there is some Good Eats.