3 cockle soup Recipes

cockles (you can use clams), butter, plain flour, full fat milk, onion, finely chopped, celery, finely chopped, chopped fresh thyme, parsley, chopped plus extra for garnish, cream, freshly ground black pepper to taste

garlic, chopped, red pepper flakes, olive oil, squid, cleaned and cut into 1/2-inch rings (about 1 lb when cleaned), dry white wine, tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped, chopped fresh flat-leaf italian parsley, salt, water, hard-shell clams or cockles, soaked in cool water for 30 minutes and well scrubbed, assorted firm-fleshed fish filets such as whiting , monkfish, turbot, porgy bream, red snapper, and sea bass, cut into chunks, coarse country bread, toasted and rubbed on 1 side with a garlic clove