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[redbird]

It's Dungeness crab season here; cattitude and I bought a nice big cooked crab this afternoon, which I took apart and he is making into crab cakes. It will be good, but while I was taking the crab apart, I remembered that some months ago, talking with roadnotes, we agreed that he would make some for her and Scraps, this winter.

There's grief as a background, right now, and then there are odd sharp moments, like that. But we go on, and we are going to eat crab cakes.

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[amaebi]

And, after all, mourning is an act of digestion.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the poky emergent shape of it.
*hugs you*

[asia27.livejournal.com]

Eat crab cakes and remember. You sound ... calm, as if healing is taking place. I wish you all the best :)

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Maryland crabcakes! How I envy you. These were one of the highlights of the weeks I spent at USDA Beltsville. Not eating crabcakes or anything else in the lab, of course! but whenever the chance arose, I had crabcakes.

[redbird]

These aren't quite Maryland crabcakes: the reasoning for this is that I can't eat really spicy food anymore (in the capsaicin sense), so cattitude has come up with crabcakes that don't include Old Bay seasoning or anything similar. (I've also been making a quasi-curry seasoned mostly with black pepper, ginger, and cumin.)

In some ways I like the flavor of blue crabs better, but Dungeness crabs don't cut my fingers when I take them apart to get the crabmeat, so I'm willing to do that more often. (I suspect it can be done more safely, with the right tools and a bit more patience and skill.)

[sammason.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen the word 'capsaicin' but goofle has told me what it means. In which case, you and I have this in common - I avoid foods which burn my mouth or throat. Most foods featuring chilli, black pepper or ginger aren't for me unless very mild, because they make me choke and my digestion doesn't like them.

But the crabcakes I had in Maryland weren't that kind of spicy. Whatever was in the recipes (I ate at various cafes and a few restaurants) the crabcakes mostly tasted of crab. I bow to your native knowledge on the different crab species! Here in Britain, our crab-fishing industry mostly nets brown crab which is another excellent food.

I'm on a seafood diet: see food and eat it. Which reminds me, why aren't you in linguaphiles?