How to Make Sausage, Beer & Blue Cheese Mussels

Sausage, Beer & Blue Cheese Mussels
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Recipe by Danny Serfer, owner/executive chef, Blue Collar

Here's what you need:

  • 1 stick butter
  • 2 beers (plus however many extra beers you personally need to get through cooking things)
  • 5lbs mussels
  • 5lbs hot Italian sausage links
  • 1lb blue cheese
  • 10 cloves garlic, chopped


 

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Let the garlic simmer in olive oil for a couple minutes, and if you're not a wuss like those CFL players, throw in a dash of chili pepper flakes.

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That's sausage. Add all 5lbs and cook it through.

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Douse everything in two cans of your favorite craft beer -- this one's a dark stout.

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Let it simmer until it looks like this.

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Dump in every last one of those mussels.

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Smother said mussels in the entire pound of crumbled blue cheese. Seafood is healthy!

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A trick you should attempt with every meal ever from now on: chop up a stick of butter, throw it on top, then cover for about 5 minutes.

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Keep it just under a boil, and check to make sure all those suckers opened.

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You did it, congratulations! Now you get to have annoying people come to your place for the Super Bowl every year from here on out.