We made our way to Vourvourou bay, just about 20 mins from the bay we had stayed the night before. Vourvourou will be where we would be staying for the night, and most importantly, will be spending our day here looking for more shell fish!
This time round, we are searching for 2 other different types of shell fish and not sea nochi.
The first one in Italian is called Thelinei (don’t know the name in English). They looked like clams but was told that they are not the same, and could be found bountifully closer to the shore of the bay.
The second one in Italian is called Fasolarei, and comes in a beautiful shell. These are slightly harder to find, as they are located about 5m away from the shore in the water.
We must have spent couple of hours in search of them before we were satisfied with our find and headed back to “Gaia”. Now comes the fun part – Eating time!
We decided to first start off by preparing the sea nochi for eating as an Aperitivo (see earlier related post for how we ate them), accompanied with some wine, before having some salad for lunch. It was a fun experience and it tasted GOOD!
After lunch, we prepared the Thelineis as they were going to be the main ingredient for our pasta tonight, prepared proudly by Chef Alberto!
First they were boiled in water, so that the shell would open and be easy for us to remove the “meat” from the shell.
The removed “meat” was then placed into a bowl and the water used to boil the Thelineis was kept as stock for our spaghetti.
Chef Alberto then cooked some spaghetti and mixed it together with some garlic, tomatoes and of course the Thelinei! And dinner is served!
And you must be thinking what happened to the Fasolarei? Well, it is now in a bag soaked in sea, suspended by a rope tied to the boat.
But not for long! It’s going to be served on our plate, within the next 2 days.
How would it be cooked? Well, I am not sure about that for now, so we will just have to wait and see!
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