bodger
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WinklesA man can only eat so many winkles. The rocks along the coast where we live abound with shell fish, the most common species being the ubiquitous winkle.
I took this picture last week.
I love winkles but you can have too much of a good thing. Is there any other way of eating them other than boiling them and 'winkling ' them out with a pin?
There are also loads of mussels, limpets and dog whelks as well.
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cab
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Other than winkling them out with a pin, I'm afraid there isn't any way I know of to get the little snotlings out  Lovely things to eat, its kind of therapeutic sitting and doing it.
Limpets are under-rated. Did you gather many?
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bodger
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I've been a bit overfaced with them and i didn't pick any on this trip
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bologna1767
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limpets... opihiMy husband is from Hawaii, where the limpet is called an opihi. Theyre considered a delicacy, and are frequently eaten raw.
You can also:
-- mix them (raw) with hot chili pepper flakes (just a little) and sea salt.
-- make them into a side dish, mixing them with chopped tomatoes and onions. The tomato/onion preparation is usually done with salmon and is called lomi lomi slamon, but works for opihi as well.
-- mixed with some soysauce, seaweed, and once again, hot pepper, as a seaweed salad
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sean
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Do you slice them or just take the icky bits off and chuck them in whole?
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dougal
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Long ago, I had a 'colourful' (and French) French teacher.
He would chip Limpets off the rocks with the swordstick he carried (like I said, colourful) and immediately eat the things raw and (apart from the shell) entire.
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bologna1767
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| sean wrote: | | Do you slice them or just take the icky bits off and chuck them in whole? |
just chuck them in whole......
as for icky bits.... ive seen him just pick the limpets from the rocks & eat them out of the shell whole; so if there were any icky bits, they got consumed too.... 
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