Sunday, May 02, 2010

Maryland Crabs

OMFG!

Boned Jello
 Hucker brought over a bushel of the first steamed Maryland crabs of the season last night. I say without exaggeration that they were the fattest, sweetest crabs I've had in my life. Nothing more needs saying. Oh, this also happened to be Cinderella's very first taste of crab.  She's hooked. Oh, there is no comparison to the tasteless Louisiana crabs that we get around here during the off-season (not to mention that Louisianans BOIL their crabs. AWK!). 

5/02/2010 10:08:00 AM 10 Comments

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Anonymous said...

I can SMELL the Old Bay! Dang you, Rog, I can't get those in PA!

AWM

5/2/10, 11:49 AM
I thought I'd had crab before.... said...

I'll show my ignorance....


If you don't boil them to cook 'em, What do you do?


<-- West coast here

5/2/10, 12:33 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

steam, man, steam -- after dousing them in a seasoning like Old Bay.

5/2/10, 12:39 PM
molonlabe28 said...

Reminds me of the line from a Jimmy Buffett song: "She can eat her weight in crabmeat anytime."

5/2/10, 2:50 PM
Hell_Is_Like_Newark said...

I never liked Old Bay on steamed crabs. I did however like boiling them (not steam) in a pot with a couple bottles of dark beer substituting for some of the water.

I am surprised their are crabs left in the Chesapeake. Between the deadly algae blooms and a virus that attacked the crabs a few years back, I was under the impression the crab industry was dead in Maryland. All the crab meat I buy up here now comes from Vietnam, India, or China.

5/2/10, 3:37 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

The cycle is on the upswing, and this year will see bumper crop

5/2/10, 4:22 PM
badanov said...

She's a kewtie patootie, Rodge

5/2/10, 5:54 PM
cmblake6 said...

Oh. My. GOD! Take me home, why don't you.

5/2/10, 10:24 PM
Timbeaux said...

I'll give the 'Peake it due, y'all make better crab cakes, but to say that steamed crabs are better than the beauties boiled by someone who knows what they're doing is plumb crazy! Anyway, for the next few years I think ours will be coming a lot more flavor than any you've ever seen before...blackened. :(

5/2/10, 11:02 PM
El Jefe said...

Just got back from Shreveport, LA, (home of the Barn Army's support staff - the 8th Bomb Wing). And I must say this: the food is SOOO much better than anything (except for the crab) you'll get in the DC/Baltimore area.

5/2/10, 11:04 PM

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