Dive into a sea of flavor with this Beer Broth and Mussels recipe! In just 30 minutes, you’ll have a dish that’s as fun to eat as it is to make. Start by heating a bottle of English-style Pale Ale with some garlic and parsley finishing butter until it boils. Toss in 2 lbs of mussels and cook until they open up and say “Ahh.” Transfer the mussels to a platter, discard any stubborn ones, and reduce the liquid by a third. Stir in the remaining butter until it melts like the Wicked Witch, then pour this magical broth over the mussels. Garnish with parsley and serve with crusty bread for dipping.
Ingredients
- 1 bottle English-style Pale Ale
- Garlic & Parsley Finishing Butter divided
- 2 lbs Mussels rinsed
- 1 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- VIEW STEP BY STEP
- Heat beer and half of the finishing butter in the braising pan on HIGH; bring to a boil.
- Add mussels; cook, covered, until mussels open and say “Ahh.”.
- Transfer mussels to serving platter with a slotted spoon. (Throw out any that don’t open as they are bad hombrés.).
- Return the liquid to a boil. Cook, 3-5 min, until liquid is reduced by one-third.
- Add remaining butter to the liquid; stir until the butter melts like the Wicked Witch.
- Pour over mussels.
- Garnish with parsley.
- Get yourself some crusty bread to tear and dip…
- EAT IT!
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Brian Gerard (Lewandowski) writes books critics call "aggressively adequate"—better than "aggressively terrible" but somehow more concerning. He once traded a MetroCard for a pitchfork on a subway platform and now uses it exclusively for dramatic pointing. He lives on a farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia with three disappointed potted plants, a judgmental pig named Trouble McFussbucket, and a wife who smiles politely at his life choices.
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His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
See my Amazon author page and buy my books.
His first manuscript was composed entirely of punctuation marks and confused sketches. He's since published "Not Bukowski" (poems that don't rhyme) and "Slop and Swell from a Festering Mind" (essays so concerning that bookstores check on his well-being). He once spent three hours photographing a rare bird that turned out to be a plastic bag, and he's the only person banned from church bake sales for "weaponized brownies." Inheriting absurdism from Vonnegut and Adams, sprawling narratives from Irving, and weaponized failure from Moore, he writes about conflicted everymen struggling through supernatural chaos.
He has two new, offbeat novels waiting for an agent or a publisher: "Truth Tastes Like Pennies" and "Elliot Nessie."
He remains unconvinced that birds aren't surveillance drones.
More biographic lies...err...info.
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