periwinkles, Mmmmm!

Another shell fish that I like to use is the periwinkle, thats the conicle shaped snail that you find at low tide, lot of times in big groups. If you take them and scrub the shell for sand and stuff and then just boil them in salt water for about 10 minutes or until operculum opens (the little flap that looks like a piece of plastic that covers the opening)  then just use a tooth pick to pull them out, or a pin and dip them in garlic butter they are scrumpshish.
Last week I went and got more mussles and steamed them until they just opened and then shucked them, served them in a half shell with garlic, herbs butter and breadcrumbs and baked them quick in a hot oven, (broiler if you have one) and then proceeded to fill my gulliet.

Mussels are the best! Will have to try periwinkles too. My Hawaiian friends' parents always ate them and they looked pretty good.

Z