Over the weekend we went cockling with some friends. Cockles are salt water clams and are found very easily during low tide on the beaches. We went out with 6 other friends and "foraged" for cockles. Foraging may not be the best word to use since all you had to do was dig your hand in the sand around an inch or two and you would find handfuls of them. We had a great time and made some new friends along the way. After you find the cockles you have to let them sit in salt water for about an hour, so they spit out the sand. We stopped for a warming drink on the way back home while the cockles did their business. Once we got back home we cleaned them, steamed them, and then ate them. That process took about three hours of cleaning and steaming. But we had a great "yarn" and a glass of wine while we waited. (A yarn is a new term we have learned lately meaning a chat or talking) It was one of the best Saturdays we have had here!!
Kit and I found some!!
Burt cleaning the cockles
Steaming
cutting up onion and garlic for the sauce
Caroline and Kate eating the steamed ones
The shells and the meat
Our wonderful cook, Christina!!!
Kit stirring up the sauce
Cheers to a great day!!!!!
3 comments:
That looks tasty! Wait, vegetarians eat cockles?
Looks like such a great day! How fun!
No one stirs soup like kit. No one!
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