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Mussels ~ Moules ~ on the Seal Rocks exposed by the low tide in the pacific Ocean across from Cliff House in San Francisco, California
This is an endemic Australian species that inhabits tidal rock pools, hiding under rocks until night when it emerges to feed.
(Elliott Heads, QLD)
A different sort of presentation, but a classic Chilean ceviche with prawns cured in grapefruit and lemon juices, tossed with cilantro, red onion, bell peppers, rocotos, and served over a merquen (smoked chili) spiked avocado puree
Razor Clam, Chorizo, Parsley-Clam Gel
Oyster, Smoked Caviar, Hazelnut
Crab, Mussel, Mandarin, & Grapefruit
The edible Mollusca of Great Britain and Ireland : With recipes for cooking them 2nd ed. / By M. S. Lovell.
London : L. Reeve & Co. [1884]
CA SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
•Food & Foraging:
An otter must consume approximately 25% of its bodyweight in prey each day just to stay alive!
•A 75-pound otter can eat up to 1,500 sea urchins a day, or about 25 pounds of seafood (for a 75 pound kid, that would amount to eating 75 quarter pound hamburgers every day!).
•To meet its high energetic and thermoregulation demands, a sea otter’s metabolic rate is 2 to 3 times that of comparatively sized mammals.
•Sea otters consume a wide variety of benthic invertebrates. Prey items include sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, marine snails, marine worms, sea stars, and squid. In total, otters eat at least 50 species of benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates, although individuals tend to specialize on only a few main prey types. Prey specialization and feeding preferences are passed on from mother to pup.
•The strong forelegs paws are used to locate and capture prey.
•Pockets of loose skin under each foreleg are used to store prey it has gathered on the seafloor for the ascent to the surface.
•Rocks are often used as tools to dislodge prey on the sea floor and to break open the hard outer shells of some prey items upon returning to the surface. Floating belly-up in the water, they place rocks on their chests and repeatedly pound hard-shelled prey against them to gain access the meat inside.
•While eating, an otter will roll repeatedly in the water to wash away food scraps from its chest.
•Unlike most other marine mammals, sea otters commonly drink seawater. Although most of the animal’s water needs are met through the consumption of prey, its large kidneys allow it to extract fresh water from seawater. Source: www.seaotters.com
Chum salmon at the end of their long amazing journey from sea to their ancestral gravel in the same creek they were born in. They deposit eggs and milt (sperm) in a redd or nest they have cleared gravel from and then they die, all energy expended.
Oyster Creek, Samish Bay, Wash.
Cephlapods
Left: Octopus (round, balloon like head)
Middle: Squid (elongated head)
Bottom: Cuttlefish (hard head)
Flesh goes pink in colour as quality deteriorates
Seed clams were planted in cages in the spring. Now in the fall they are removed and placed in larger lanes where they will grew for a couple of years. Then they can be harvests. Lanes are covered by nets to protect the clams.
lobster, bay scallops & prawns, leek & celery choucroute, whole grain mustard-olive oil fumé
the girl & the fig, 110 West Spain St., Sonoma, CA
2009-05-26
Le Menu Exceptionnel
Velouté de coquillages et son huître tiède, paysanne de légumes
Delicate shellfish velouté garnish with a warm oyster and diced vegetables
Blog: www.lart-devivre.eu/blog/2010/03/31/the-waterside-inn-200...
Tanks with aerated water to keep the shellfish fresh. Unfortunately my flash highlighted bubbles, and it is difficult to see the shellfish.
It's August and if we were in Sweden (as I wish we were) we would be enjoying these creatures with lots of friends and snapps by a lake somewhere.
In England we have to buy them in Ikea, but can still enoy the friends and snapps but no lake!
(And they were delicious!)