The Crab Cake Story. A dear couple, family, Ray & Lindy Jones of Rohnert Park, CA, harvest crab every year in Oregon and send Marilyn pint jars in a care package once or twice a year. My baby brother, Bruce, took me to his favorite restaurant downtown Seattle in 2010, bought me lunch and this book. He has pestered me (ever since) to make them. I finally did it! Only took me 10 years and 3.5 hours! Maybe it will be faster next time. Ted LOVED them. The author, Tom Douglas, and my brother look a lot alike!
Recipe as I made them. Allow plenty of time the first time because they need to be refrigerated for an hour before frying. Link below to print; click on “Print Recipe“.
Etta’s Classic Dungeness Crab Cakes (modified)
Makes 8 large (or 16 small – large egg size)
Half a recipe (8 small cakes) fit in a 9″ cast iron skillet as pictured.
Ingredients: 1 large egg yolk (I used the whole egg)
2 tsp lemon juice (I used bottled)
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1.5 tsp Tabasco
2 Tbl + 1 tsp Dijon mustard
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp fresh or dried thyme
1/2 tsp celery seeds
1/4 tsp black pepper (I omitted)
5 Tbl olive oil
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3/4 cup chopped parsley (divided in 1/2 cup and 1/4 cup)
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped red pepper
1/4 cup chopped green pepper (I prefer yellow pepper)
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1 pound crab meat, about 4 cups (I used 4 jam jars of canned crab) drained and “picked clean of shell” (if there is any)
5 cups bread crumbs (I think 3 was enough. I only had 4 cups to start and had lots left over.)
5 Tbl butter
4 lemon wedges (optional – I didn’t have any)
Cocktail sauce (optional – they were delicious without any sauce)
Directions:
1. Mix 1/4 cup parsley with bread crumbs, set aside.
2. Mix the first 10 ingredients in a blender or use an immersion blender.
3. Combine liquid and spices with the crab meat, onions, peppers, remaining parsley, and 1 cup of bread crumb mixture. Don’t over mix or they may be gummy.
4. Gently form cakes and lay in bread crumbs, toss crumbs over and around, remove to shallow container and refrigerate for an hour before frying.
5. Melt butter in skillet and cook cakes about 4 minutes on each side. I use the lowest setting on my gas stove. I added a lid to aid in heating through after I turned them over.
1. Cut the hem off a T shirt. Discard.
2. Cut 2 – one inch strips for ties.
3. Cut strip the size mask you want. See shot below. You will have two.
4. Trim the sides to remove seams and straighten them.
5. Take one mask and place ties at 1/3 rds as shown in shot below. Tie top.
6. Fold sides in, overlapping.
7. Pick up and place top edge under loop over nose, pulling knot to top of head.
8. Cinch sides and pull bottom of ties behind head and secure.
I used flannel for the inside and you could use designer art prints for the front like she did in the video, or whatever you have. This mask is very comfortable.
Cut two, or 3 if you want a pocket, 8″ by 10″ (adult) or 7″x9″ (small child).
1. Serge all sides, wrong sides together, or, for pocket fold two in half and lay against wrong side of third piece and serge all sides.
2. Fold down top edge, wrong side over right side, 2xs and stitch.
3. Fold sides in to form casings and stitch.
4. Use 45″ or longer shoestrings from dollar store and running from top to bottom and then bottom to top on other side, thread the tie. I have a tool for that but a small chop stick also worked. Just tape the ends and pull it through. Both ends will now be above top edge.
5. Put loop over back of head so mask is in front. Pull up on ties, gathering sides and tie on top of head. Make knots on ends to keep mask from slipping below where it is comfortable when not wearing.
Mozart Piano Concerto No 3 in D major is a lovely piece, but to watch a 5-year-old smoke it out on a grand piano is an amazing treat.
While 20 adult musicians read and play their parts off sheet music, the diminutive Russian holds it all in his head.
More amazing is the power this little guy puts into the keyboard. His tone, articulation, rhythm, timing and feel are as good as any adult I can imagine playing this piece.
And DO STAY for the encore. He is clearly enjoying this short piece.
Observe the audience reaction. Were this in the USofA a handful of simpleton boys in man bodies would be dog whistling for minutes after this lovely, sensitive musical performance. In the rest of the world that is considered to be rude, jeering, expressing strong disapproval of the person or act. Stylistically and culturally I suppose I am more European than Ozarks.
… he’s probably neither gifted nor talented at video games and cell phones …
Shall I get my measles immunity papers also? You mean I can’t go to work or even get a job without having papers showing I have antibodies against each and every pathogenic disease or others can sue me if they believe I infected them?
And why do I need proof I developed antibodies against COVID-19 coronavirus when the seasonal flu is more harmful, that is according to what the Centers for Disease Control says. Some 36,000 deaths from influenza every flu season and supposedly only 12,000 deaths from coronavirus this year.
How about my influenza papers, and chicken pox papers, and polio papers, and tuberculosis papers given that migrants in the U.S. spread TB bacterium all over America?
And I’m sure you are talking about proof of having sufficient antibodies from natural exposure to COVID-19 coronavirus, but even antibodies won’t ensure you won’t get the disease again. I don’t have to inform you about that as you are the preeminent infectious disease specialist in the US being in charge of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, so I hope I’m not educating you about that.
And what about the 240 other vaccines that are under development? Will we need papers for all of those too? Don’t you think having to inoculate children and adults for over 100 different pathogenic bacteria and viruses would be absurd? Maybe even insane?
Dr. Fauci, you certainly learned, or should have learned, that the trace mineral zinc is required to make memory T-cells in your thymus gland. And with sufficient zinc, exposure to ANY pathogenic bacteria or virus, whether we are exposed to them via vaccination or naturally from circulation in the community, will produce memory antibodies that provide life-long immunity. In other words, vaccines don’t work very well without zinc and we may not even need vaccines if zinc is going to facilitate antibody production from any and all pathogens, do we?
Dr. Fauci, you need a zinc suppository, stat! Your ideas are as old as Dr. Edward Jenner and his cow pox technology of yesteryear. Today zinc replaces all those vaccines. They didn’t tell you this in your virology course in college?
Dr. Fauci, you first. Show us your papers that you have antibodies against each and every common infectious disease. Then maybe we can talk. Until then, go back home and stay in your room.
I think I will at least post the link to this article by Bill Sardi at LewRockwell.com that has other links too numerous to count, pointing to the manipulation of this pandemic, if there really is one, to the detriment of first blacks (dark skinned), second the elderly, and other nefarious outcomes if you are interested in reading it. It also explains and offers the treatments that are being denied us, world-wide by the way, that could impede the virus and/or cure people of it.
Apparently, Grocery Stores will no longer have “stocking up” sales. These will hereafter be referred to as “hoarder sales.” I have yet to score a single roll of toilet paper since the virus crisis began. It’s a good thing I was taught long ago to stock up on certain items.
Perhaps, when people refer to hoarders, they are not including the normal shopper who buys an extra roll or case of toilet paper, until AFTER the shortages are evident. I hope my supply lasts until the shortages and the crisis are over. If not, I’ve got rags and a washing machine until the electricity is gone.
Remember New Orleans? I won’t say this is the ultimate reference but here is the FEMA recommendations for prepping. May be some good advice: https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/f%26web.pdf
My kitchen window faces West and I’ve fought the setting sun for a couple of years and finally took out the two panels, that weren’t enough, and the two valances, combined them and successfully covered the window. I shortened them, and used the tops for new loops which move from side to side better than the original channels. Hubby likes that it also exposes the pretty wood at the top better than the originals would have. Anyway, I like how they turned out.
I am definitely getting sewing done during this stay order. And it’s snowing heavily now. Daughter’s business is in law enforcement and considered essential and her employees need masks to work at the jails. She tried to purchase them on Etsy with no success and I told her I’d make some and send them. I made 16 today, a new record for me. I have too many other responsibilities to do that every day. Also, have a young friend who swore he wouldn’t wear one unless it had teeth, so I painted teeth on a mask for him with permanent markers. I don’t know if it will hold up to washing but hopefully we won’t be needing them soon. Next time some oldster tries to shame him at Costco for not wearing a mask he can whip it out and put it on.
Ted has cut a piece of foam for the racing seat of his CRX and he wants if covered. I offered a flowered stripe (you should have seen his face) but may have to order something in.
Here is a very simple, no sew, no staple, no taping, highly effective face mask. They show a fabric filter that I don’t know where it comes from*, fold into a rectangle of fabric (large hankie or scarf) add two pony tail rubbers or circles of elastic, fold some more and wear. I see this would be pretty effective if you had to go out and were concerned or required to mask up. At least have these items in stock. Replace the “filter” as needed.
Just what specifically ARE people comfortable using for filters, exactly? I’m reading all sorts of things and then I’m reading, “no, not THAT!” but what then? So, I do not have a definitive answer for the filter and take no responsibility for what you end up using. Just the cloth is better than nothing.
*Old armymedic Bill I hope nobody minds, I copied this from Washington Post: “Peter Tsai, the materials scientist who invented the electrostatic charging technology that N95 masks — the highest-quality medical masks on the market — rely on, recommended using car shop towels as mask material. The towels, available in rolls and often blue in color, would do a better job of filtering droplets than cloth, he said. The material is “very strong,” he said. “And it can be washed with soap and water and reused.” So, a roll of these towels can produce more that 300 inserts. No need for anyone to hoard, just get a roll and use your scissors.
