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Who says science fiction fandom isn't educational? To prepare tonight's dinner, I used skills I learned at a Worldcon.
Fandom taught me how to take a cooked crab apart. Tonight's were chilled and had no Old Bay seasoning: I got them at the Union Square Greenmarket, took them apart with the aid of a geode (I have no crab mallet, but I have a rock that fits neatly in my hand, which worked reasonably well to break crab shells), and served the crab meat on a cucumber and baby lettuce salad, with croissants and butter.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude is more prudent than I, and prefers not to disassemble crustacea with only his bare hands and a rock, but is quite happy to eat crabmeat when it's provided.
So isjulian_tiger, who did not fulfill Cattitude's prediction that he would hang around and "help" while I was opening up the crabs. Our tiger is not stupid: when the humans are hitting things with rocks, it's a good idea to stay out of the way.
Fandom taught me how to take a cooked crab apart. Tonight's were chilled and had no Old Bay seasoning: I got them at the Union Square Greenmarket, took them apart with the aid of a geode (I have no crab mallet, but I have a rock that fits neatly in my hand, which worked reasonably well to break crab shells), and served the crab meat on a cucumber and baby lettuce salad, with croissants and butter.
cattitude is more prudent than I, and prefers not to disassemble crustacea with only his bare hands and a rock, but is quite happy to eat crabmeat when it's provided.So is
julian_tiger, who did not fulfill Cattitude's prediction that he would hang around and "help" while I was opening up the crabs. Our tiger is not stupid: when the humans are hitting things with rocks, it's a good idea to stay out of the way.