About once a year, my mother orders a bushel of crabs from Harbour House Crabs. Last night, we headed over to her house and sat at the table covered in newspaper, ready to put in a couple of hours. The crabs were meaty and full of eggs (My mom ordered female crabs cause my dad loves the roe.), well spiced in the traditional style of Maryland Blue Crabs, Old Bay. With ten people, we could not finish the bushel. I did my part though, eating seven of the crabs, paying little attention to the garlic bread and oxtail soup my mom made to give some variety. As Lon mentioned, I love work intensive food! Eating crabs for hours is my idea of fun!
You may call it eating the roe ,people here on the Chesapeake
bay call it deminishing the crab population ,as someone who grew up on the bay ,generally we never ate the females ,though some did .I was taught early on about the negative effects of consuming the ACTIVELY BREEDING AND PREGNANT FEMALES. And please ,,sour cream ??,corn meal??,oil?????????,lemon juice? paprika?
IN MARYLAND STYLE CRAB CAKES !!!???, NEVER ,This is NOT the traditional recipe for Maryland style Crab Cakes SORRY folks its just not!!,I was born and raised on the Chesapeake Bay in those 46 years i`ve seen some bad recipes put forth for our prized seafood ,and this is right at the bottom ,sorry friend if you ever want to know the real deal just let me know.Cheers, Captain Pat
There is no mention of crab cakes in our post.
Hi Jessica ,no there is not, however when you promote a restaurant ie. Harbour House Crabs and provide link to said establishment it certinly leads anyone reading your blog to come to the conclusion that you are supporting that establishment ,unless your making statements to the contrary ,and therefore becomes ligitimate subject matter to be commented on . With that said i still offer to you the traditional recipe for real Maryland style crab cakes if you like .
And Jessica even if we were to become the bestest friends ever in the history of the world ,, i would still put forth to you and anyone else the issue of eating breeding crabs ,regaurdless of what knuckle head is selling them,it is the same principal as wearing a fur coat made from a Cheetah ,if there is no market for the product then the people that provide product for that market will find some other way to make their money.Thanks for your responce ,Cheers ,Captain Pat
Hi Captain Pat!
I think you have a good point about breeding crabs which is why I did not dispute it or delete your comment. BTW, we always leave comments up unless they are spam. We do not take offense to disagreement. My comment, “There is no mention of crab cakes in our post.” was to clarify that we had not eaten them so I am not for or against them. I believe most restaurants have good and bad products/dishes. On the rare occasion that everything on a menu is good, I’ll point it out. Because we are not a major newspaper or magazine with some large budget to try everything on the menu, I, perhaps wrongly, make the assumption that people would know from the blog that I had only eaten the crabs.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. We hope to hear more from you, even if it is in disagreement.
Perhaps you could recommend a place we should order crabs from next time?
Thanks!
Hi Jessica,see we are well on our way to being the bestest friends ever,lol,may i ask what general area you live in so as to suggest a place for you?,i`m assuming that your in Maryland at this time.And you rascal you your gonna get my recipe for crab cakes if i gottaaa,,yarrr,lol, here is a list of the ingredients ,,
1 pound Blue Crab backfin crab meat
½ cup Fresh crushed saltine cracker crumbs
2 med. eggs
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon dry mustard
as you see very simple ,remember like most local indigenous dishes like this things are very simple as they are often a peasent dish (as crab cakes were originally)
and still are among those that still take a chicken neck,put it on a peice of string and just toss it off their pier . If you would like the rest of the recipe let me know and i`ll give you the url to my cookbook page .Cheers ,Captain Pat
We are actually in NYC so we had the crabs shipped. We come down to Maryland once in a while so feel free to recommend a place in Maryland and we’ll try to get there eventually.
I would love the url to your cookbook!
Hi Jessica , Some of the best crabs around are at SeaSide Seafood
it`s on Crain Hwy. in Glen Burnie ,if you look on the map look for the intersection of rt648 also called Baltimore and Annapolis blv.,,, just north of that intersection a couple blocks is Seaside on the left , They for the most part prepare all there seafood the proper way,lol.
http://www.cookbook.pirateguild.com/ ,,, this is a brand new project /site so there is still much work to be done ,it does however have my recipe for crab cakes done the right way.Thanks Jessica ,Captain Pat
Captain Pat, we made your crab cakes:
http://www.foodmayhem.com/2008/03/five-course-tasting-menu.php
It’s a nice classic recipe.