Arctic Diamonds - TF4M » Mussels http://tf4m.com TF4M - Arctic Diamonds and the Arctic King Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sea Urchins, Blue Mussels and Pearls http://tf4m.com/archives/1844?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-largest-mussels-in-the-world http://tf4m.com/archives/1844#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:39:46 +0000 TF4M http://tf4m.com/?p=1844 blue mussel – 12 cm long – and cooked it in boiling water for 3 minutes. This is the largest mussel I have ever eaten – possibly the largest mussel in the world , it was really delicious. There are also thousands of sea urchins but I…]]> I brought home with me one blue mussel – 12 cm long – and cooked it in boiling water for 3 minutes.

This is the largest mussel I have ever eaten – possibly the largest mussel in the world :-) , it was really delicious.

There are also thousands of sea urchins but I have no experience in eating those.

I collected about 30kg worth of mussels and cooked myself a big mussel dinner with garlic bread.

Birta, the queen of Otradalur loves cooked mussels, but does not show any enthusiasm for raw mussels, even if I opened one for her.

The last big mussel has a small surprise, two tiny pearls – photos of the first one can be seen below.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite PicLens]]> http://tf4m.com/archives/1844/feed 1 Blue Mussel Farming http://tf4m.com/archives/973?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blue-mussel-farming http://tf4m.com/archives/973#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:54:04 +0000 TF4M http://tf4m.com/?p=973 A new company has been formed to farm blue mussels in Arnarfjörður. I give them a base to operate from and eventually I will have more mussels than I can eat :-)

The first lines are being laid in the sea outside the shore of my farm.

I will add more photos as the work progresses.

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