Ocean Approved - Healthy Kelp

Photo: Jim Bazin

• 1 Thai red hot pepper
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 small onion
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 1 4-ounce package of kelp noodles
• Linguine
• pounds of live mussels

1. Cook linguine and reserve it in a colander. Thaw the kelp noodles then mix in with the linguine.
2. Finely dice pepper, garlic and onion.
3. Combine the olive oil and butter in a large sauté pan over low heat, add the diced ingredients. Sweat until the onions are clear.
4. Carefully clean the mussel shells and add the mussels to the sauté pan. Turn the heat on high and cook, stirring frequently until the mussels are fully open.
5. Run hot water over the linguine and kelp noodles to warm them.
6. Add Linguine to the sauté pan and stir
7. Apportion on plates and serve.

BOLDBusinessTV Episode #2 featuring Ocean Approved is now live!

BBTV-Episode 2: Ocean Approved – Tollef Olson and Paul Dobbins

…Meet Tollef Olson and Paul Dobbins of Portland, Maine’s Ocean Approved, the only commercial kelp farm in the United States, farming on underwater acreage leased from Maine’s Department of Marine Resources…

Maine Connection Seafood Company of Torrance, CA is carrying our products and has invited us to visit. We will be sampling seaweed salad and kelp slaw at the farmer’s market.

Palos Verdes-Rolling Hills Estates Farmers’ Market

Time: 9:00AM Sunday, February 7th

Location: Hawthorne Blvd at Silver Spur Road