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Highlandlass · 10-21-2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by AirForceW1fe

You can get Old Bay in the spice section of any grocery store. It's a blend of about a dozen different spices so too much of a pain to try and combine your own, but if you can't find it let me know and I will send you some. I put a little in the crab cakes themselves.

And yep Beth you are right it is home. I grew up in DC and every weekend we would go down to the wharf and buy a bushell of fresh blue crabs. Crabs, crab imperial and crab cakes were a way of life growing up for sure!

I've got my shopping list ready and Old Bay is on it - I'll have a look around and see if I can find it here. Thanks for offering to send me some. If I can't find it I may take you up on that offer. So far I'm a crab virgin, but that will soon change. Will I need a smoke afterwards???!!! lol

mdgibbs · 10-21-2009, 08:36 PM

I drive past McCormick Spice (they bought out Baltimore Spice the maker of OB a couple of years ago) company every morning on my way to work. I can always tell when they are making pepper and canning Old Bay.

While this crab cake recipe looks good, being a Chesapeake Bay boy born and raised, I have to use fresh crab meat and cut back on the bread crumbs quite a bit. The pasturized stuff is just not for me because I think it is fishy, and around the bay region most crabcake places that are "famous" tout fresh meat and very little filler in their crabcakes. Fresh picked Eastern Shore Jumbo Lump is running around $28 a pound, so the less filler the more you taste the sweetness of the crab meat. I typically do without crab meat over the off season in the winter and it makes appreciate fresh crab meat in the spring that much more! It is sort of like living in Maine and getting fresh lobster I guess.

I have not had steamed crabs since I had my sleeve a month ago, but in my pre-sleeve days I could do 3 dozen mediums in a sitting. Fall crabs are typically the best of the year and we are going to Ocean City MD this weekend and I think I am going to get some. I will be lucky to be able to eat 2 large ones!

mdgibbs · 10-21-2009, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Highlandlass

I've got my shopping list ready and Old Bay is on it - I'll have a look around and see if I can find it here. Thanks for offering to send me some. If I can't find it I may take you up on that offer. So far I'm a crab virgin, but that will soon change. Will I need a smoke afterwards???!!! lol

The prices on their site are actually pretty reasonable for Old Bay.

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Highlandlass · 10-22-2009, 01:48 PM

I wimped out and tried the 'crab' cakes as 'turkey' cakes instead (for now that is). I just didn't get to the grocery store yet. I used all the same ingredients and did a little sprinkle of freshly grated parmesan on the top. What a fabulous lunch. I don't always get something warm at lunch so these were ideal. I made up 3 and ate 1 so have more for lunches next week (they are frozen now). I promise to try the crab once I get out shopping. Just was not feeling up to it today, but did get my long walk in with my chubby Jack Russell. She looks like she could use RNY too! hahaha

AirForceW1fe · 10-22-2009, 02:36 PM

You post this right as I am feeding my beagle my last meatball since I was full. She never got table scraps before my surgery. Now she has learned to just sit and stare at me while I eat because she knows most of the time there is something I won't finish.

I really need to stop doing that. Poor thing is going to look like a barrell!

Highlandlass · 10-22-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by AirForceW1fe

You post this right as I am feeding my beagle my last meatball since I was full. She never got table scraps before my surgery. Now she has learned to just sit and stare at me while I eat because she knows most of the time there is something I won't finish.

I really need to stop doing that. Poor thing is going to look like a barrell!

Have you seen my Jack Russell - looks like she swallowed a barrel! She's 15 now but still full of pep and energy - when she's not pretending to be a rug - laying in the middle of the floor. Its a hard life being a vicious guard dog who would like people to death!!!