In honor of all things summer I wanted to get “crabby”. I love crab as many do but usually prepare king crab legs when making it at home. Simple, neat, delicious. For the sake of visual interest, I thought it’d be fun to shoot and prepare whole crab so I picked up a couple crabs only to find that handling a whole crab, in all of it’s creepy arachnid-like strangeness, was a bit of an unknown fear of mine. Learn something new everyday, right? So I kind of felt like a bit of a weenie after discovering this mild yet embarrassing pseudo-phobia and, luckily, after taking a few minutes to psych myself up (think boxer in the ring hopping up and down with short strong breathes) I dove right in to that creepy little monster. All in all it went well, though it’s very likely I’ll be reaching for dismembered crab legs next time around;)
*tip* I boiled the crab with some coarse rock salt in the water which really added a nice, subtle flavor for those times when you’re not looking to dunk those hunks in butter (or even when you are!)
What are your favorite ways to prepare and eat shellfish? Recipes definitely welcome!
Mmmmmmmm EAT ME
a little bit of home for the salt water creature
slurp those tender bits
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I remember you talking about these weird guys. At least they made for great pictures.
♥ sécia
haha. Yup!