Healthy Food Preparation - Moules Marinieres ‘a la Belge’

In the most unlikely situation, one can generally find something positive! Because of Covid travel restrictions, our boat has been way past overdue for drydock. As a result, the anti-fouling paint has lost long ago any ability to discourage marine growth on our hulls. While we were forced to stay in one area for months, I had no reason to scrape our bottom from time to time and thus a real marine reef was created. When we finally were allowed to go back to Malaysia to haul out, I had to scrape our hulls to avoid the drag the reef would have on our boat speed. When I saw so many nice looking green lipped mussels, I could not resist harvesting some and having a feast of “Moules Marinieres a la Belge”. I ended up scraping most of our bottom, leaving the areas with highest concentration of mussels for future harvesting … resulting in several more great dinners! Warning: do NOT eat mussels you suspect might be containing toxic substances and eat a very small portion of mussels the first time to make sure you digest them well … This delicious recipe (given by our long time friend, Catherine) will delight your palate with good mussels found at the fish market or imported as well as some remote locations explored by sailboats. Full recipe in the video. Filmed in Indonesia in 2021.