Reviewed: Mar. 24, 2013

These were fantastic. I used regular tomato juice and a jar of calm juice, Chardonnay, garlic (reduced by at least 1/2) and then lite butter at the end. I also used some fresh parsley to brighten it up. Fantastic taste. I will use this recipe again. We dipped our toasted french bread in the juice.. it was just awesome. Thank you Casey52 for a wonderful, easy, and FAST recipe.

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Cindy in Pensacola

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Stockton, California, USA

Living In: Pensacola, Florida, USA

Reviewed: Jun. 3, 2012

These mussels are tasty! We didn't have any tomato and clam juice cocktail the first time we made them, so we substituted with Bloody Mary mix that we had on hand and they were great. Tonight we decided to make them again and we used the Bloody Mary mix again and thought they would be good with pasta, so once we removed the mussels from the liquid and added the butter, we added some sliced portabella mushrooms, de-shelled the mussels and added them back to the juice, cooked it down for a bit and mixed it with cooked spaghetti. It was fantabulous!!!!! We will definitely make it again!

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lilacliss

Reviewed: May 5, 2012

My friends were so impressed with the flavor that they wanna personally shake your hand! LOL. Thanks

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polkceleron

Reviewed: Apr. 16, 2012

I love this recipe and make it all the time. I follow it exactly and it works out great for me, every time!

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Anna Bazzo

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Mar. 25, 2012

This is replacing my Mussels Diablo recipe. That being said, cooks might want to note that tomato/clam cocktail juice is made with high fructose corn syrup and msg. I didn't realize this until husband came back from the grocery store with the ingredients. Thank goodness I had V8 and clam juice in the pantry. I made that substitution. Rave reviews from my dinner guest. We served this over angel hair pasta and increased the amounts to serve 5 as a meal. My oldest daughter ate 3 helpings.

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Ad-lib Cook

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 27, 2012

So easy! So delicious. A true winner. One note: I did double the recipe when I made these for a dinner party and they didn't come out quite as well as when I had made the original-sized batch. There wasn't as much of the delicious sauce. I'll add extra wine, butter and cocktail next time!

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Olivia Hubert-Allen

Reviewed: Feb. 4, 2012

These were delicious. Just the right amount of flavor and heat.

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Reba Murphy

Reviewed: Jan. 9, 2012

Holy ! These ARE amazing! im sure the regular recipe is delicious but I didn't have the "juice" recommended, but I did have spicy vegetable juice and tomato sauce! I use sauvignon blanc for the white wine and I added a tbsp of cholula hot sauce and a bay leaf, and I had garlic french bread which was stupendous! Definitely saved the leftover sauce for spaghetti sauce tomorrow! Also I slowly heated up the sauce on medium low for about 30 minutes then added mussels and turned it up to medium for the 6 minutes then turned the sauce on high heat for 5 minutes + definitely a keeper

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