Teddy folkman's blue cheese mussels recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 pound rope-grown P.E.I. mussels
• 4 tablespoons blended oil (40 percent extra-virgin olive oil, 60 percent canola oil)
• 1/3 cup diced applewood-smoked bacon
• 1/3 cup thinly sliced shallots
• 1/4 cup Hook's Blue Cheese, or a similar mild, creamy blue
• 1/3 cup white wine, preferably a dry Chardonnay
• Juice of 1 lemon
• 1/3 cup baby spinach, cleaned and de-stemmed
• Sea salt, as needed
• Black pepper, as needed