Sentences with phrase «with mussel shells»

Objects decorated with mussel shells (including a stunning tondo titled Cercle des moules (Circle of Mussels), 1966), eggs and coal — all of which Broodthaers sourced from a local restaurant — became simple visual puns on Belgium's suffocating heritage (mussels and fries, for instance, is Belgium's national dish, while «Moule» is also French for «Mold»).

I'd fill a mason jar with mussel shells from a beach walk or old fishing weights any day of the week.

Not exact matches

Here in the Northeast most folks eat shellfish — hard - shell clams, mussels and oysters — the way God intended: raw and maybe with a dash of hot sauce and a spritz of lemon juice.

Smaller piece weights such as shrimp or mussels, with or without shells, present few problems.

Moroccan Bouillabaisse Makes 6 Servings Ingredients 8 plum tomatoes (about 2 1/4 lb), seeded and grated (skins removed at end) 1 large onion, grated 3 garlic cloves, chopped 4 cups fish stock 1 lb potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes 1/4 teaspoon crumbled saffron threads (optional) 1 tbsp ground cumin 1/2 tbsp sweet paprika 1/2 tbsp ground ginger 1/2 preserved lemon, peel only, thinly sliced 1/4 cup chopped flat - leaf parsley 1/4 cup chopped cilantro 1 1/2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined with the tails on 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (about 1/2 lemon) 1 lb white fish fillet (such as monkfish, turbot, red snapper, striped bass, porgy, grouper, and / or cod), cut into 1 1/2 inch fillets (about 5 pieces) 1/2 pound mussels, scrubbed * 1/2 pound cockles or small hard - shelled clams, scrubbed *

300 grams kamut spaghetti (or substitute with a similar fresh pasta of your choice) 1 litre of unsalted chicken stock 30 grams sea salt 2 tbsp olive oil 1 knob butter 50g pecorino finely grated 50g parmesan finely grated Freshly ground smoked white pepper (if you can't find smoked pepper you can use smoked sea salt to add the smoky flavour) 200 g mussels (weight without shells) 200 g girolle mushrooms (you could substitute for cepes or chanterelles also) 2 cloves garlic - finely diced 2 tbsp finely diced flat leaf parsley

Discard any mussels with broken shells.

In the North Country, with 3,000 lakes and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, recalled how she witnessed the fouling of Lake Champlain by zebra mussels — a migrant from the Caspian Sea that clogs water pipes, sucks nutrients away from other fish, and yields sharp shells that cut tender feet on beaches.

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

And though they seem more rocklike than lifelike at first glance, at second glance they may begin to remind you of a limpet perhaps, or a mussel, or some other sea creature with a formidable hard outer shell, softer more vulnerable parts tucked inside, and zero mobility.

They charted the efficiency and flexibility with which giant Pacific octopuses switch strategies to open different shellfish — smashing thin mussels, prying open clams, drilling tougher - shelled clams with their rasplike radulae.

Pressed through the shell with a strong thumb, a tooth would have severed the ligament holding the mussel shut, forcing it open to provide — voila!

«Zapping zebra mussels with these waves forces them to surrender essential minerals, such as the calcium they need to maintain their shells,» Ryan explains.

Benyus says the strategy has already yielded a wide range of new products that may replicate nature's successes: ceramics with the strength and toughness of abalone shells, self - assembling computer chips that form by processes similar to the way that tooth enamel grows, adhesives that mimic the glue that mussels use to anchor themselves in place, and self - cleaning plastics based on the structure of a lotus leaf.

These robo - mussels pick up on how the animal's shell interacts with sun, wind, and tide to determine its body temperature — a subtle point that a plain old thermometer would miss.

The anti-inflammatory value of mussels with the curiously green tipped shells was first discovered by studying the diets of the Māori.

3 pounds beef (90 % lean) 8 ounces beef heart 5 ounces beef liver 20 ounces chicken gizzards 3 cans sardines in water, minus the juice 6 ounces mussels (3 teaspoons kelp could replace the mussels for trace minerals) 2 teaspoons ground fresh ginger 5 eggs with shell 3 ounces red pepper 5 ounces mixed dark leafy greens (kale, chard, spinach) 4 ounces broccoli 6 ounces butternut squash 3 tablespoons flax seed or grape seed oil 4 ounces cranberries 4 ounces shiitake mushrooms

Some of these shells are shielded from direct contact with seawater by a special coating that the animal makes (as is the case in mussels).

Although a decline in modern bivalve shell δ13C has been shown to be related to increased use of metabolic CO2 with age [21], [22], neither our midden nor archival mussel shells showed a decline related to age (Fig 1a), nor did shell of different aged individuals laid down in the same year differ in the δ13C (Fig 1b).

Thus, even though mussels may not be precipitating calcium carbonate in equilibrium with seawater [6], we can not yet identify a metabolic process that is causing a δ13C decline through time in modern shells.

The rate of decline in mussel shell δ13C from 1999 − 2009 was faster than can be explained by equilibration with the rising CO2 concentration of the atmosphere and the increasing contribution of isotopically light fossil fuel carbon (the Suess effect).

LAST NIGHT»S MENU: Pizza for the kids, tapas for the grown - ups (yummy cod croquettes and patatas bravas at the first bar; revolting stuffed, crumbed and deep fried mussels in the shell serve by surly waiters at the second) all sloshed down with vino rosado.