Friday Crab fest!

Unless someone on the Selway trip has a shellfish allergy, this is definitely going to be on the menu. It was good. Really good. We will possibly serve it with tortillas so people can make it into a burrito if they want (I'm a big fan of food you eat with your hands).

This was a "crab-bake:" basically, one giant crab-cake. So far, it has been the best received dish we've served on our Dutch Oven Friday feasts, but unfortunately also one of the most expensive. Since we used real Snow-crab (as opposed to K-rab), this one giant crab-cake cost about $40 to make. It was plenty of food for 7-8 people, so it certainly could have been worse.

We served it with an avocado/jalapeno mayo, and it was great, though Sparky found it to be too spicy. She didn't realize the mayo itself was spicy, so she kept putting more on her crab-cake to try to cool it down. I found this amusing, though I ended up trading her portions since I'm more spice-tolerant.

In addition, we served a simple "Lipton Onion Soup" over roasted potatoes (easy and good in a D.O.) and green beans roasted with a sweet chili sauce.

We just had strawberry short cakes for dessert: nothing special, but my personal favorite dessert.


Next time: Shrimp Fritter-bake!