Esparguete com burbigao,spaghetti and clams

Portuguese clams (ameijoas), particularly the small variety Burbigao from the Ria Formosa Nature Reserve in the East Algarve, are extremely flavoursome and need little if anything to help them on their way.We normally eat them Bulhao Pato style.Bulhao Pato was a Portuguese poet from the 19th Century. He is however, much more famous for his clams recipe than for his poetry. Ameijoas a