Mejillones [Mussels] Coconut Ginger Tomatillo Poblano Mint . . Mussels are everywhere you look at the seashore: clusters of salt-water wallflowers, shells tightly closed, rooted in one spot for a lifetime, and apparently doing very little.That very ordinariness makes it easy to overlook what remarkable creatures mussels really are, lurking inside that blue-black shell: hardy, prolific, successful--- and uncommonly tasty.