May 29, 2009
Trying Out Crab Meals
Eating crab legs or the whole crab for that matter is fun and the meat is delicious. I enjoy the challenge of trying to get to the meat. How can I not mention cold crab claws served with a spicy cocktail sauce? There are so many ways to enjoy crab. Probably one of my favorite is a crab cake. Restaurants all over the country have them at many different price ranges and quality, but I still love them. I wish I could find an easy crab recipe for crab cakes. I need a recipe that a clumsy chef like me could prepare in ample quantities to make a meal.
In a restaurant a crab cake is almost always served as an appetizer, some offer them as a meal. But I am more inclined to try something else for dinner. I always love to cook crab cakes with a good side dish and white wine at home . I remember as a little boy going to Red Lobster and loving to eat snow crab. The soft texture of the crab meat and the buttery garlic sauce was just delicious. I also used to go over to my best friends house and his sister was in love with crab dip.
I got to try it, and I must say that it is very addicting. There are many varieties of crab dip, and I would like to try it at a restaurant as I have only had the store-bought product. Either crackers or with fresh vegetables are a very good treat. Joes Crab Shack is one of my favorite restaurants to eat at, and I would love to try their hot crab soup at some point. Crab is just such a lovely soft meat to eat, and I know it would taste so good in a soup. I will definitely have to make sure I try the crab soup next time I go there.
Lobster, crab, oysters, shrimp, salmon, tilapia, and prawns are some of the seafood I enjoy to eat. Although seafood is one of my favorite foods. Even though my experience coming up as a local predisposes me to a partiality for salmon above any other seafood I ate as a youngster, I still count prawns and shrimp as faves of mine as well. There is nothing I can't stand more than ordering seafood at a restaurant, and it arrives at you're table like it just came out of the water. Once when I and my fianc were at a restaurant she did'nt notice that the menu had a whole lobster and not just a lobster tail. The lobster was brought to the table antennaes and all.
Unfortunately that quickly turned him off of the lobster and seeing as it was a seafood restaurant I was forced to eat the lobster while he ordered crab chowder, which was also an interesting experience. My fiance was okay with eating it seeing it didn't have a face. It was a great evening after all.
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