What to do with crab meat?
 

My daughters birthday today and she wants a seafood dinner.

What could I do with crab meat aside from stuffing mushrooms? What kind of sauce do you put on it?

I've only made it once and stuffed portabella mushrooms but she doesn't really like mushrooms. If I stuff salmon with it, I just filet it like chicken and then cook it how?

crab cakes! perfect for birfday

I think that's what I will have to go with. Bearnaise sauce or is there some sort of fish sauce?

I will find a recipe for it. Everything else I find seems like it will take away the taste of the crab.

Happy birthday little S.

Creamy sauce goes with crab I guess. Here are some recipie ideas - Crab Recipes : Food Network

I don't eat salmon but I would cook it in the guest of honor's favorite way. I prefer grilled or smoked fish myself. If you like rarer salmon you could cut a pocket into the filet for your stuffing. Then broil it to the desired doneness.

I'm off to the store! I will take a photo of the feast!!!! Whatever it ends up being.

I would leave the stuffing part and fry the salmon as sliced and maybe fry the crab meat too. I haven't never cooked crabs (not that much around here), but the point was cooking and serving those "separately".

The fried crab meat (or salmon too) could also be dipped onto some sauce, like they do in Asia. AKA having plate with salmon and crab meat and some extra and some dips to dip the meat into.

i put crab meat in my seafood gumbo but cooking that gumbo up is quite the chore, with an extensive list of ingredients.

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thermidor sauce could go well with it, traditionally more for lobster i guess..

Michaels Crab Thermidor Recipe - Food.com

No sauce, no mushrooms. Just a cooked crab meat in its own shell. Just like you do it with lobsters.

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This will save you a good bit of time and nobody will know the difference. :)

Microwave Roux Recipe - Food.com

wow, making roux without bacon grease, several of my dead family just rolled over in their graves!

i take it you've made/tried this so, i'll bookmark it because, yes, my homemade roux is easy to burn and takes a while, this method would shave a lot or time off the entire gumbo recipe time though. :thumbsup

otoh, i usually nibble the bacon while stirring the roux! makes the time go by faster :1orglaugh

Not that exact recipe but you can make a good roux in the microwave. You can also just brown the flour in the oven and omit any fat but screw that. I cook just the flour and oil part in the microwave then add it to a big pot and continue like normal.

crab burgers and coca cola ?

no coke only crab juice

happy birthday to your baby :thumbsup if u live on the coast take her sum place if you can afford it :2 cents:

Crab meat corn dogs!

They rock!!!

id rather have crab puffs :2 cents::2 cents:

Dinner was DELICIOUS!!!!!

Crab cakes and stuffed mushrooms, shrimp scampi and asparagus topped with Bearnaise sauce.

Desert chocolate layer cake with chocolate mousse and chocolate covered strawberries and pineapples.

We had a feast then took a ride in her new car after I successfully installed her license plates by myself! Was a good birthday for a sweet 17 year old.

Thank you dyno for the crab cake suggestion! Was trying to avoid it, but was so good.

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Yummy!

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It looks nice. Did you make all that?

I like the crab meat on a salad

I didn't make the cake. But the rest yes.

I saved her some of her own to make it how she wants. She likes it on salad too. :thumbsup

wow. looks fantastic, really.

Was good. Now she's sitting in her car listening to music pretending that she can drive alone lol.

Ahhh to be 17 again.

The shrimp looked like they could use more buttah otherwise nicely done. I would eat it and then my pee would smell like asparagus all day.

The shrimp was actually in scampi sauce - I do like my shrimp a little more cooked, like...grilled (crispy on the outside) and in COCKtail sauce - but this was pretty good.

I haven't peed yet, but I'm sure it will be stinky lol. Why are you so gross???

I'm so happy all three of my kids birthdays are finally over for the year.

I almost had to get back on the phones just to afford them!!! :pimp

I like asparagus but I don't eat it often because of the stinky pee thing. I ate a whole bunch of it once. Ugh I had to hold my nose to piss.

Do you only mate between april and june? :x

Yep. Apparently June is a very fertile month for me. This year I will stay single...unlessssss :winkwink:

Keep trying I like it. :):)

i'm funny about the aspergas. i can only eat the floret part if it.

but i bought this 4th burner pot and it's ideal for cooking aspergfas too.

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I like the whole thing, but the floret part is my fav, especially if it's a little crunchy.

I bake it for like 20/25 minutes with olive oil, minced garlic and sea salt. Mmmm! Don't need to put butter or anything on it. Delicious just like that.

It's gettin hot in hurrrrrr :1orglaugh

no butter? ; butter's goood.

flirtacious tryin to show patience

That's how I would make scampi sauce, just butter and lemon.

Delicious


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Crab Cake Recipes - Allrecipes.com

hah, drat, just pulled a meatloaf out of the oven to smear on the sauce and splattered meatloaf juice and sauce all over my new t-shirt. still had the stupid creases in it, that's how new this t is. to the washing machine, posthaste!

The crab will be turned into poo soon. They already ate.

You really just don't even need it with the olive oil and garlic. Promise. :thumbsup

And it's better for you.

I went with this one because it really only used the crab meat. She doesn't like when I season her seafood too much and drown out the fishy taste, so I tried to keep it simple

Baltimore-Style Crab Cakes Recipe - Andrew Zimmern | Food & Wine

Dyno ---- take off all your clothes? No stains. Take a picture too. Okay, maybe that was a little too far.

If you're gonna harass him you could at least offer stain removal tips.

Are you kidding me? OMFG lol.

I saw one last night where the dude wanted to take a girl out, have her chew her food and then spit it into his mouth.

Disgusting.

Gonna have to face it you're addicted to love. :winkwink:

Wait, is it menopause? Have you ever seen Spring Breakdown (2009) - IMDb ?
Screw dentures I'm going to be an extremely creepy old guy.

I have not but it looks super funny!

And no, it's not menopause. It's just you :winkwink:

I got in trouble last time I cooked naked!!!

Mom come home early? lol

If you can cook like that the rest is allllllllllllllllll good. ;)

Busy later? ;)

Looks like a great feast. Glad it was a good day for you and your daughter.