Mussel Soup

Saturdays and Sundays are usually the days devoted to market day/grocery shopping for us. Hubby noticed that we ran out of rice so we really have to go to the asian store. We went to H Mart(an asian store) yesterday. We found so many kinds of asian foods name it they have kind of place. We bought a milkfish (whole), two mackerel (whole) and mussels. We tasted the Korean melon and it was good so we bought some too. We bought ripe papaya and dinosaur peaches( I thought those peaches looked funny). We bought a 25-lb sack of rice, some filipino type of bread called pan de sal and ensaymada espesyal. Yummy. We also bought sardines (kay nakalugsong man!;-). It so happened that my daughter loves the sauce in it and not the fish. And we bought a lot more other stuff for cooking. And she requested not to forget the noodles she loves- pancit canton!

When we arrived home it was time to make dinner. So I made soup with the mussels I bought and fried some fresh mackerel fish. Hubby put the leftover ground beef in the soup and good thing they tasted fine. I did know why but fine he wanted to use the extra ground beef. I cut and sprinkled a dash of salt to my mackerel then cook some rice. I also fried some anchovies and placed some vinegar and soy sauce on it. It tasted divine that even my kids begged to make some more. I told them we make some every meal and not all at once. Hubby ate the hot pepper I placed in the soup and he was sweating like a horse. I tasted some of it and it was really good. Do you want to know how I made my mussel soup? It's this simple:

Ingredients:
a pound of fresh mussels (on the shell)
3 cups water
onion bulbs
spring onions sliced
2-3 long hot peppers
red peppers sliced
tomato sliced
salt and pepper
sweet potato tops/ ongchoy(kangkong) optional
lemon grass optional

What to do:
1. Boil 3 cups water then place the mussels.
2. Bring to boil one moe time and the put all the spices except the spring onions.
3. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
4. Put the spring onions and serve!
See? it's easy as 1,2,3.;-)