/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6805938
>this kills the crab

Caught 4 - cleaned and halved all at the beach

Ingredients:
2 Dungeness Crabs (10 oz)
Pasta
2 Shallots
2 Cloves of Garlic
1 Jalapeno
1/4 Cup of Mint
1 Lemon
Butter

>>6805938
What kind of crab is that?

Start by boiling the crab - for about 5 minutes once it's come to a complete boil

>>6805948
>>6805950
>dungeness
oh fair enough

Liberally salt the water and put in some pasta. Cook it for however long you like - I cooked it for 8 minutes. Depends how you like your pasta

Finely chop the shallots and jalapeno

Fuck this is tedious

In a pan, melt some butter and simmer the shallots and jalapenos for about a minute.

Anyone lurking?

>>6805972
You shell crab like a pro

After about a minute add in the garlic and stir. Turn to low heat.

>>6805979
Thanks! I only get to live on the Coast for the Summer, so I try and do a lot of crabbing.

Add in the crab and mix thoroughly

>>6805948
How do you clean these? Do I have to clean store bought live crab?

>>6805985
would devour. I'm jealous I wish I lived closer to the ocean.

>>6805975
Kinda on edge, I'm expecting a turn for the worse.

>>6805986
Here is what I do to clean them,
flip the crab on it's back and kind of stab it with a rock - this kills the crab instantly
after that I grab it by all the legs (claw included) and hit the shell on the side of a log or rock to rip off the shell and most of the innards.
Then it in break in half, and rinse in the ocean and pick off the lungs/gills.
I rinse them off when I get home and make sure there's no nasties sticking on to them still.

>>6805987
I live less than a kilometre away from the ocean - from leaving my door to getting back it takes around 45 minutes depending on the tides and winds and whatnot.

>>6805988
Thanks asshole


Cut up some mint and then...

>>6805995
>Thanks asshole
Its no offense to you, its just a lot of threads have been popping up on /ck/ lately where people just cook shit and create disasters.

>>6805995
juice a lemon

>>6805997
Don't judge my dirty cutting board

Turn the heat off and add the mint, lemon juice, and pasta.
Mix it all together real good

I garnished with a little bit extra mint and served it with some corn and a beet salad.
I thought it was an appropriate Summer meal.
Would have paired nicely with some white wine. I highly recommend this, really interesting mix of flavours, never thought I'd find something with jalapeno and mint that would go well together.

>>6806008

Looks really good dude, good job.

>>6806008
Sounds and looks absolutely delicious, you are making me hungry.
Good job OP

>>6806012
Thanks! It was really good. I love cooking with crab because it's always so fresh. Those buggers were living an hour or two before I ate them. I was going to do a crab ceviche but decided to do this instead.

Hopefully I'm getting some more tomorrow

Anyone know some good crab recipes?

>>6805995
>>6805948
>calling tomalley nasties
>not using leftovers for stock

>>6805938
That's pretty cool. I hope you named it first, you could have done a xx gets to name my crab thread. I'd have named it Larry. It looks like a Larry.

>>6806059
I commend you OP. I would have devoured them after steaming. No way could I wait to implement them into any recipe.

>>6806059
>All them uncracked claws

fffuuuu

>>6806059
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8euGxGY32I

>>6805938
at least you won't need to cut off his head with scissors. that crab is already dead. (on the inside).

>>6806064
what're you talking about? I don't want those greasy yellow sponge organs, I never thought about crab stock though, thats a good idea, thanks.

>>6806076
I froze the left over legs so I can bring some to university. Gonna have a steak and crab night.

>>6806080
That's interesting. I may try that tomorrow. If anyone is interested I'll make another thread?

>>6806098
>greasy yellow sponge organs
They are the only part of the crab worth eating

>>6806098
It kind of looks like a vessel from Babylon 5.

A blue crab appears

>>6805938
crab just wanted to be friend :(

>>6805938
Sheeit, I didn't see the fingers in the thumbnail and at first I thought that crab is 30 feet wide

so this is a case where getting crabs is a good thing?

>>6806266
so did this rabbit. but cat had other plans.

>>6806098
>not liking the mustard

you didnt grow up eating crab, did you OP?

How a person catch a fuckin crab of this size? Arent they walking on the ocean floor?

>>6805975
Hell ya, go on. It's name is Larry and needs butter and garlic.

>>6806303
Even off of the Florida coast those buggers are easy to find, just dive down, swim around some and you'll find one or more. The water is nice and warm there now so diving is fun, the coast off of say Long Island is damn cold though, I've never found anything there.

>>6806309
... Atlantic coasts for both.

>>6806303
Have you ever heard of a crab trap? You stuff it full of salmon and wait until the crabs get caught in it.

>>6806318
Mine were in the Pacific

>literally eating a sea insect
is this some kind of meme tbh

>>6807219
>poor people actually believe this

>>6807231
>implying you have to be rich to catch crab

>>6806065

>>6806065
roll for Bob

>>6806065
>>6807298
Morton. roling.

>>6807355
got 'em

>>6806008
sounds amazing, god I wish i lived near the ocean and I could catch some crabs

>>6807219
>insect
>more then 6 legs

>>6807231
>poor people
>probably the single easiest meat to get for free

now i wanna catch a grip of crabs and eat the shit outa them

>>6807408
Because everyone lives close enough to the ocean to catch crab

>>6805967
>Finely chop

>>6808877

kek'd