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I will drive the faster vehicle then.


Leave the old Tacoma at home!

Come with me some time.

Dang,

I would love that.


Just put 1600 miles on the Taco. I'm going to hate to see my CC bill for the gas. Don't think I'm going to swing another long trip this season, barring a family emergency. Especially given current market conditions. My monthly retirement "paycheck" is going to get cut again.

I really appreciate the offer. Haven't been on the ocean since................2 weeks ago. Almost forgot I took a twilight fishing trip while down south with my sister and two of her kids. But, it was hardly enough to whet my appetite.

Blue Claws!
Tomorrow night is my gun club's annual "all you can eat" crab night. The Mrs. eagerly awaits this epic event all year. She tears through dozens of them like a buzzsaw!

I like them, but not as much as she does. Fortunately for me, we also serve spaghetti and crab meat.
I donated 30 lbs. of pasta, which should be enough for the 200 or so members.

I love the taste of crabs, but doggone are they a PITA to eat. I did a job in Maryland one time and had a dude set me up with (6) XL boiled crabs along with a 6 pack of beer to enjoy watching NFL. I swear I burned more calories trying to eat those things, but they were delicious.

I pretty sure folks in Maryland put Old Bay seasoning on their ice cream and in their coffee.

Newport

Dungeness are much easier to crack than blues. One big ocean crab is all I can eat if I have French bread, garlic butter, and adult beverages.




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YUM!!!!!!!

I used to hunt the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland them blue crab, cakes are awesome too!

8” crab
8” chunk of bread
8” pour of wine

Best meal on earth

How To Cook Crack And Clean Crabs:

Step 1: Use commas.

If all you are looking at is how long it takes to get a meal, king crab reigns... so rich and so big it takes no time at all... especially at Costco where right now they have red kings 4-7 count!!!!!!!!!!!! that is 4-7 pieces per 10# box! Imagine a 2.5# crab leg!

You don't get full from eating them, you just get tired.

Was in Newport week before last and stopped at the South Beach Market for some steamer clams. They were selling whole crab for $24.99 a pound, $50.00 for a commercial size crab, with a line out the door all day long.

While we were in line an older guy with Idaho plates hefted a cooler full of crab over to the outside cooker and there were six legal males in the lot, everything else was females. The dude doing the cooking told him to take his cooler and get lost.

Yeah, Only a 8 hr or so drive and close to 400 miles, which adds up to a round trip of too many Biden gallons of gas. But I really do appreciate the offer.

Not knowing the regs ticks me off to no end.

What gets me riled up worse though is the certain ethnic groups that get caught occasionally with coolers and coolers full of every size and sex. Everything they haul up goes into the coolers, and I presume to the Asian markets or restaurants. I'm talking 300 - 400 crabs.

Makes you wonder how many of the poachers out there don't get caught.

Back couple weeks ago I netted couple dozen blue claws and made a nice sized pot of sauce. Been cooking 'em this way for years and have refined my recipe to rival most Italian restaurants. Any leftover gets frozen, less the actual crabs.

-Ken

BBQ crabs like they served at Sartains in Sabine Pass.

King crabs are best, followed by snow and the small ones are kind of a tie. All the little ones taste the same to me. We have lots of blues here and they're very easy to catch. Mrs. Geno likes claws but I'm a west indies salad lover from way back. I'll happily eat them any way they're fixed. I prefer all of them cleaned before cooking.