Open Thread WE 29 DEC 21 ~ Crabs
Howdy. 
Everybody has different tastes when it comes to food and music and people. One of the weirdest sandwiches I ever saw was a plain steamed soft shell crab ensconced between two slices of white bread. I think it was on St. Michaels Island in the Chesapeake. Served with a pitcher of warm beer. No sauce, just crab and bread. Thought it was sorta strange, but the crew all crunched away at theirs, so I guess it wasn't a joke after all.
Years later, I noticed a close cousin on a plate at The Fleet in Charleston, except it was on a bun instead. Guess it's easier to eat than trying to pick the tiny bits of meat out of the legs and carapace? Must be an acquired taste. Have you any amazing sammiches to share?
If the Maryland Flag weren’t so cool, we’d probably fly a picture of a crab cake over the statehouse. Once you’ve had your first real one made with handpicked Maryland jumbo lump crab, you’ll know why.
Total time: 15 minutes
Serves: 6 cakes
Ingredients:
☐ 1 pound jumbo lump, handpicked Maryland crabmeat
☐ ½ cup breadcrumbs
☐ 1 egg, beaten
☐ 5 tbsp mayonnaise
☐ 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley
☐ 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
☐ 1 tsp prepared mustard
☐ 1 tbsp Old Bay Seasoning or J.O. Crab Seasoning
Step 1: Combine breadcrumbs, egg, mayonnaise, parsley, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, and crab seasoning and mix well.
Step 2: Pour mixture over crabmeat and fold in taking care not to break up the lumps.
Step 3: Form into six cakes and pat until just firm, then deep fry in 350°F corn oil 2-3 minutes until golden brown.
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EDITORS WARNING: Mare-lun crabs fruit out in May. Do not try this recipe now, as a tiny can of crab meat will set you back over 50 bucks. Better to wait on this one. Unless you are rich ..
I guess crabs like chicken necks and gizzards ..
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Crab Decanter Charlie Matz
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Walk sideways and carry a big claw or two.
Open thread so make this your own special gumbo!
Covidis crabs are in a separate bucket.
Comments
Are you being crabby?
We used to play every year or two in Maryland and DC. Always ate crab cakes at a little hole in the wall...they were fresh and good.
Back in the holler it will be pig meat on New Years with black eye peas and greens. BBQ is the main sandwich in these parts, but I'm cooking a rack of ribs for the holiday. Much like your crab sandwich above, I've seen a rib sandwich with two pieces of white bread with ribs between bones and all at dreamland BBQ in Tuscaloosa.
We've got a nice BBQ joint over the mountain in Ft Payne.
Y'all be well and eat well! Thanks for the OT, even if you are crabby.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yes, the pulled pork sandwich is pervasive in the south
The sauces vary form one region to the next. I'm partial to the Memphis dust, but also enjoy the tang of the eastern Carolina varieties.
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/regional-barbecue-sauce/
Here in Little Rhody, we are known for our saugy hot dog. It's a local food.
https://www.goodfoodstories.com/saugy-dogs/
Enjoy your New Year BBQ!
An unusual, but not necessarily amazing sandwich
from my much younger days:
4 (I think, maybe 5) of us had just set out for lunch when I spotted a $20 lying on the sidewalk, which I commandeered. We repaired to a great little deli in San Francisco's North Beach where we ordered a pugliese and had it split lengthwise. Condiments were selected by universal agreement. After that we each got to select the contents of a layer from all of the available meats and cheeses until the twenty ran out. Once assembled, the loaf was cut into individual sandwiches and we repaired to a park bench in Washington Square to consume it. An interesting culinary adventure.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A buddy of mine from Australia
says pineapple is commonly found in hamburgers. GAG.
I hope to have a traditional pork/black eyed peas ?good luck" meal, but I may not make it home in time to buy the greens. I am at Lake Texoma until we leave out for home in the morning. All it takes is one accident on the interstate to shut down traffic for an hour.
I hate fish, and due to iodine allergy, I can't eat the one item of sea food I liked, which is crab cakes. When i was much younger, I could get away with eating one, but later in life, I can't eat even a bite.
The best crab cakes EVAH are in the Louisiana Mom and Pop restaurants. Texans go over the state line, dine in Lafayette, come home, leaving the crab cake prep to the experts!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
curious -
might not a burger with a potent coarse ground Russian or German dijonnaise moutard and a slice of pineapple be an interesting sweet & sour sammich?
came to mind because I'm currently craving a bowl of hot & sour soup
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
You go first!
Let me know how it goes.
I will go as far as Dijon on a sausage, covered with sweet pickle relish. I don't know, maybe if I was properly liquored up, I could do it. Even if I didn't work up the nerve, I would enjoy getting liquored up, eh?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yeah, there's always a bright side to everything. The sausage
proposal reminds me of a long ago Berkeley treat from a hole in the wall on Shattuck up on north side, called a "chihuahua" (lower case) - Saags brand Louisiana hot links grilled whole on a big flat top would be slathered with good Russian mustard and rolled up in a flour tortilla softened on same flat top. Washed down with a good brewski they were absolute heaven.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well, I haven't thought about that in a while el...
When I was a grad student at Berkeley about 35 years ago, we'd occasionally catch live music at a basement bar (sorry don't recall the name). After closing, we'd walk (or stumble perhaps) around the corner to the Top Dog. Kielbasa or a Bockwurst or a Brat. The "chef" had an uncanny short term memory of who ordered what and the who was up next from the hoard gathered.
Fortunately, my drinking and eating habits changed for the healthier soon after. Damn those were goood dogs though.
Still are good dogs, though I tended toward a brat & a hot
or a kiel and a hot.
Oddly enough, a few years ago some foodie mag did a "sweet 16" for dogs, and each regions representative was very splashy with all kinds of toppings and inclusions and weird buns except one of the editors included Top Dog and advocated that for pure Hot-Dog goodness nothing beat a top dog (the dinner frank) in the grill toasted bun with the condiments of your choice from the condiment table. A lot to be said for that.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Best Brats I remember
Were these really fat ones, grilled to perfection, on a simple roll.
Came from a local Polish deli in Jackson, MI. Enjoyed on a lake
shore in the fall. Just a line of mustard and a brewski. MMM
Q, wrote a long comment in
response, which was eaten by the internet.
So here's a reprise.
Read a great book on Watermen and the Chesapeake: Beautiful Swimmers. (Latin name). All about Blue Crab.
My first was when Mr. Meta ordered a Blue Crab sandwich at a Long Island pub, which arrived in between two slabs of white bread. Well, being from the land of Dungeness, this was an incredible sight.
Speaking of all things sausage, we found a local maker of yellow relish that is like the best sweet pickle relish for wurst. Mmm, so good.
Now I'm very hungry.
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