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[redbird]

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. 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.

Comments

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

In the graduate course in crab-eating, we learn to take a crab apart using only a knife. I can show you sometime...

[redbird]

I might need a refresher in that. The last time I saw a knife used for that purpose, it was knife plus wooden mallet.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I'm vastly, ridiculously amused by the concept of not only using skills learned in fandom to prepare crab, but also by using a geode as a hand axe to prepare it. :D

[redbird]

I just hand washed my hand axe.