I was trying to decide what to make for dinner last night. I had gone through a couple cook books, Weight Watchers Take Out Tonight, and Low Fat In Nothing Flat. I couldn’t decide. I took the Low Fat In Nothing Flat cookbook with me when I went to karate class, with plans of stopping at the grocery store on my way home. And that’s what I did. I still hadn’t decided. So I sat in the store parking lot, thumbing through the cookbook and settled on Steamed Mussels With Bell Peppers. I went it, did my shopping, and bought all the stuff that I needed.
I am not sure I am going to mess with mussels again. They are a little work heavy. I had to scrub all of the mussels one by one. And it took a little while for 4 dozen mussels. And that was on top of dicing a red pepper, a green pepper, and onion, and mincing the garlic. I also had to chop the dried-tomato bits. Instead of melting a tablespoon of reduced calorie margarine in the skillet, I used butter flavored olive oil spreay. This work fine, and I had that much less fat in what was already a low fat meal.
The mussels were okay. It was a lot less messy than the mussels with marinara recipe that I tried a couple weeks ago. So we ate the clams, and ate all the veggies and broth stuff. It was okay. I don’t think I will make it again. I think I might look for more clam recipes that use canned clams. Those are much easier!

Posted by Rob in Whatever on March 26th, 2007 |