#cockle

#Sciart for #ValentinesDay 💕:

Heart Cockles! (Corculum cardissa)

“Cardium,” Plate 59 in General Conchology by William Wood (London, 1815)

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Cockle / Stardew Cockle -

[PT: Cockle / Stardew Cockle -]

A term under the Stardew Valley presentation system (link) for when one’s null presentation is calm, peaceful, and related to both cottagecore and wild nature aesthetics! This is intended to be related to the game Stardew Valley, but doesn’t have to be!

Tagging: @radiomogai @obscurian @spectrral @rroard @angelninetytwo

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Perfume bottles.

Kamiros, Rhodes, Greece, ca 550BCE 

[I think they’re all from the same place, it’s hard to work out from the BM website]

Another Hmart 'kit' review. This time, I tried pre-packaged soy sauce cockle!

I thought it was clam until I turned it over & saw the English.

Cockle, as per Google, is a distant cousin of clams. They have similar texture when eaten. They differ in their shell shape. .. yeah, I don't know. I'm just gonna treat it as a clam relative. I like all seafood! Or at least, the ones that I've eaten anyway.

The kit contains 3 components: the large package is the one that has the cockle, the smallest one is sesame oil, & then the last one is soy sauce.

(The cockle pack is watery; I'm guessing that's the preservative 'juice')

Yup, I was right haha like the canned whelks, the cockles were in a light murky brown 'water'. I got rid of it & all the little leafy things as well. Not sure if it's edible but the picture instructions does show a draining procedure. So if you end up buying this, don't miss that step!

Drained & then mixed in the soy sauce & sesame oil.

I ate it with rice & some seaweed. PS: this product is meant to be eaten cold but when you put it on top of hot rice & mix it, it warms up.

YUMMMMMMY! The flavour was good & I liked the texture of the cockle. It's slightly chewy & lacks mushiness. Canned & bagged seafood is still kind of weird to me but after the canned whelks, I feel more confident with this packaging of seafood lol it tastes like Korean banchan. If you know, you know?.. . you know all those briased banchans, like quail eggs or fish cakes..? It reminded me of those. It's totally the sweet Korean soy sauce but it's so good!!