Mussel

Can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.

Serve these mussels with a frisée salad dressed with red wine vinaigrette. Add french fries, plus a baguette for sopping up the sauce. Lemon tart would be good for dessert. See how to clean mussels.

These mussels, flavored with garlic-herb butter and baked instead of steamed, beg for some crusty bread to sop up the wonderful sauce. Try them over pasta, too. Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 35 min

Make garlic-rubbed baguette toasts for mopping up the sauce. What to drink: Brut Champagne or a dry, aromatic white wine, like Viognier.

Mimosa in Los Angeles uses coconut milk in this version of a Breton classic.

Corsica's finest dishes feature fresh seafood. Here's an uncomplicated and delicious example.

This is a rich, filling way of serving mussels. Make sure to have a lot of good bread to sop up all the juices.

The classic Korean pancake, threaded with seafood and lots of scallions, has crispy edges and a kicky dipping sauce, making it a perfect drinking snack.

Bright, fresh, colorful, and easy to eat with one hand, this take on the classic Peruvian mussels dish is a great cocktail snack.

A scaled-down seafood boil you can pull off on a weeknight with nearly any quick-cooking vegetables.

Plus mayo bread, because we can.

A punch fish stew with scallops and mussels and all the good things.

A super simple red sauce lets the shellfish shine—say that 5 times fast.