It’s summer and time for crab. Crab every part of the day. Every part of the meal.
Except for dessert. There are no dessert recipes Crab. No crab brownies. But there are, to be sure, crab cakes.
This crab Wikipedia has fifty recipes and coincidentally begins with fifty pages about crab: history, how to crab, what do drink, how to buy and clean and store, and all the ways to cook them.
As for that important question, what to drink. Well, the answer is three-fold: crisp white, sparkling or beer.
Here’s a survey of the ideas you’ll encounter.
For Breakfast you can enjoy:
Fine Herbes Omelet
Crabs Benedict
Hash Browns with Crab
Sourdough Bread Pudding with Crab
Appetizers can be simple or complex:
Fresh Spring Rolls with Crab
Choux Puffs with Curried Crab
Crab and Corn Souffle
Sherried Crab and Mushrooms on Toast
Yes, sherried crab on toast is very old-fashioned but it is also very good.
Soup and Sandwiches covers a wide swath of ideas, some familiar and some quite exotic:
Chilled Tomato Soup with Crab
Whiskey Crab Soup [4 cups crab stock, 2 cups half-and-half, ¼ cup whiskey]
Crab Club Sandwich
For our next crab venture, my whiskey-loving wife is going to be making that soup. She doesn’t know it yet. She won’t know until she reads this post. And then I guess we’ll be having a discussion. While we make some crab stock.
Salads are the natural home for crab, but here the ideas accelerate from that basic Crab Louis:
Crab Louis
Shaved Fennel Salad with Crab and Blood Oranges
Spring Farro and Crab Salad
The Main Courses offers richness and elegance. Any guest will welcome choice such as:
East and West Coast Crab Cakes [saltines versus bread crumbs, cornichons versus red peppers]
Beer-Steamed Blue Crab with Mustard Butter
Crab and Chanterelle Risotto
Grilled Crab with Charred Orange-Rub Butter
Whether you buy your crab whole or canned or by the leg, there are recipes here to make you a kitchen hero. And to put a smile on your own face, too.