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CRAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (must have 15 letters!)

nancyjane_gardener

4 years ago

Not much else to say! Crab, salad mostly from the garden and garlic bread!

Anything better?

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carolb_w_fl_coastal_9/10
4 years ago
Yum!

We used to net blue crabs from under our dock and cook them right away.

IMO, shrimp can give crab a run for its money...
plllog
4 years ago
Heh heh. :) Crab garden. Like Octopus's Garden? Under the Tidepool?
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Islay Corbel
4 years ago
Love crab!
plllog
4 years ago
Oh. Your question. Nope. Nothing better. :)
colleenoz
4 years ago
Doesn’t have to have 15 letters. Can have spaces ;-)
LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago
I'm green with envy!

The only affordable crab around here these days comes in a can. Aldi had some type of softshell crab that they wanted $50 for a small bag of maybe 3 lbs. Hard pass!

I think I have a can of lump crab in the pantry. I should make some Clam Chowder one of these days. Haven't made any since last winter. I have some potatoes my brother gave me that are starting to sprout that I need to use.
HU-455869934
4 years ago
I love crab! We usually get it alive from an Asian seafood shop with big tanks of live crustaceans, shellfish, and finfish.
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
4 years ago
I have had live king crabs (cooked, not sushi). Amazing is all I can say.

I was in H Mart before the holidays, they had a few live king crabs in the tank. $55.00 a lb. Obviously they will not cut one up for you, you have to buy the whole one. I say each one is at least 15 lbs or more. Considering that may be the yield for king crab meat is about 1/3, that would come to may be $1,500 for the dinning table. So I just looked and admired.

A few days later, I went back again to H Mart to shop. There was only one left in the tank.

OK I am a cheap skate.I bought a few dungeness crabs, $15.00 a lb.

dcarch
nancyjane_gardener
Original Author
4 years ago
Ours was $11.99 per pound, then we got 10% off cause it was old people day!
Lars
4 years ago
I get 10% off on Tuesdays at Bristol Farms, if I can remember to go there then.

King crab legs are my favorite, but I don't need to cook them myself.

A few years ago, there was a lot of king crab on the market, possibly because of the effect of red king crabs that had been brought to the Bering Sea by the Soviets.

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Fun2BHere
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nancyjane_gardener
Original Author
4 years ago
Looks like the season is going to be quite sparce this year! I might have to buy a few to freeze!
HU-455869934
4 years ago
I always cook the live crab myself.

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dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
4 years ago
Recently, canned crab meat actually taste not too bad. They are not cheap. Very convenient for making crab cakes.

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morz8 - Washington Coast
4 years ago
We haven't had any yet this year...we get it live, DH cooks it (usually friends helping). 'It' being dungeness that we prefer over any of the others. I saw some before the holidays on ice behind the butchers counter, described as 'fresh' and it was lump meat, no parts of legs visible at all....$69.99 a pound. The cooking suggestion was 'crab cakes'. I like them, but sincerely hope I wouldn't have to pay $70 to make crab cakes ;) - when we live 15 minutes from a fishing port.
moosemac
4 years ago
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Stone crab claws from various places in FL.

Crab Imperial from Obrycki's in MD

Broiled crab cakes from a little dive on the Chesapeake or a comparable one from a restaurnat in Little Italy, Baltimore

Green crabs, Dad & I caught in NH, steamed and eaten on the boat.

Or those same green crabs deviled.

She Crab Soup from a dive in Georgia.

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