Costco had big ol' bags of Washington mussels yesterday - grabbed a bag ($13) for dinner.
Heated up some olive oil and butter in my big pot, added a bag of Trader Joe's frozen sliced leeks, one chopped red onion, and about 8 cloves of garlic - sauteed that all down tender, then added some Old Bay seasoning and some freshly-ground black pepper, then one each homebrewed Centennial Blonde and London Brown Porter. Brought that all up to a good simmer, let it stew a few minute, threw the whole lot of mussels in it and slapped on the lid. In about 6 minutes they were opened, plump, and gorgeous.
Have a BUNCH left so we're gonna pick the meat from the shells and reheat the broth, then throw in the meat for a mussels stew of sorts. With homemade almost no knead bread. I'll see if I can remember to take a picture later - wasn't happening last night, the mussels and linguine with pesto were just too tempting to stop and take a picture!