Oh, man, work is so busy that I think my eyeballs are going to fall out. Fortunately, we have a three-day weekend coming up. Good old Martin Luther King, Jr. I love how he fought for civil rights and also gave me a day off work.
Tonight I am cooking tilapia. That’s the fish I cook most often. Denny recently expressed interest in trying salmon again, which I like a lot but he says he doesn’t like. I don’t want to buy lovely salmon if Denny isn’t going to eat it, though. I don’t like cooking separate meals for us, even though I like a lot of things he doesn’t. Sometimes I just have to, though, like when I get in the mood for garlicky, lemony shrimp pasta.
He’s going to be out of town for a few days early next month…maybe I’ll boil up some crab legs.
I like crab legs…
I like tilapia, though it’s been a bit oily on a couple occasions. We don’t eat as much fish as we used to, since L is worried about contaminants making their way into the baby.
I’ve read that pregnant ladies should be very careful about consuming many types of fish, especially tuna. I also recently read that many ponds and lakes in Iowa have been so contaminated with waste run-off that the fish in them may be unsuitable for consumption. So map, even though I don’t know you or L, I know I’d love your baby and wouldn’t want any harm to come to him or her. Eat vegetables, L.
I just bought some crab legs for fun, though I have no idea what to do with them. What would you recommend I do?
Crab legs: the purest, most traditional way to do it is to just boil them up and serve them with drawn butter. You can do other things with crabmeat, but it’s so labor-intensive to remove it from the shells that it’s a lot more efficient to just buy the pre-shelled stuff.
Boil a whole lot of water in as big a stock pot as you can find. Submerge crab legs. You don’t have to boil them very long; they’re probably pre-cooked. If they’re a bright orange/pink/white color, they’re pre-cooked. If they’re grey, boil them until they’re pink. If they’re pink, leave them in until the water comes back to a boil.
Serve with melted butter and a squeeze of lemon.
Maybe Denny would like crab legs if they were served with shell and nutcracker (we use kitchen scissors, actually). What I love best about crab legs and lobster is the intricate shelling-at-the-plate process. But that’s me.
Thanks! That was most helpful indeed!
I know what I’m having for dinner tonight.
Oh, also, Aprille, I think that you might have forgotten a thing about preparing crab legs. I think that one of the directions, and it’s near the end, is “Give some to Michael Tabor.” …right?…