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I don't know, but I bet Maryland could do some interesting things with them!

My St. Patty's Day Pot 'o Gold. Florida Golden Crab. Details here..

OK, here's the deal. I live in South Florida, I love crab (and other seafood) and eat quite a bit. My family loves crab as well. Stone Crab, expensive and here, very good. They give you one claw, throw the rest of the crab back, then cook and freeze on the boat. Blue Crab? You can even get it live by the half bushel, but still expensive and Blue Crab is a pain to pick. Golden Crab? What is this Golden Crab you speak of? Well, turns out in the deep waters (300 to 2,000 feet deep) south of 28 north, there is this close cousin of snow and king crab that has just been hanging around all this time. In the late 80's when nets were banned, well the net fishermen went fishing. And "found" Golden Crab (I'm sure these guys have been a fisherman's treat for some time, and were not just discovered in the 1980s). More information: Click here for the down low on the species OK. So I have heard about them maybe, at the longest, for the last four years. Took them a while to figure out how to harvest them. Then they started popping up on menus here and there. So, what the heck, give it a shot. So I went shopping. And I bought three of them live. $2.69 a pound, what's wrong with this crab? It is hard enough to get decent beef at $2.69 a pound. The same place had medium stone crab claws at $11.99 a pound. Well, I took three home. There is the medium sized one. Still, surely there must be something wrong with this crab. It must be a "trash fish" it must not be good. You just can't go giving that kind of crab away. So, I kept it simple. Boiled in Old Bay. Rendered lots of fat. Smelled lovely, HEAVY. Real heaft to these suckers. But, how will they net? The first back. I was doing a happy dance. Split body. Now I am jamming. I know I have a decent crab here in my hand. Pick, and eat while you pick. Sweet meat. Tastes like the beach, nothing wrong with this crab. After picking, three crab in a 2.5 quart pyrex bowl, three people eating while they are picking. I am going to get at least two casseroles out of this. I have a new "goto" crab. Easily comparable to stone crab, superior to Blue Crab (I like the taste of Blue Crab but don't like the work), and cheap. It was a good day.

I feel your pain. We are so much more than the beach. So much more.

OOOOOHHHHHH! What do you have going besides vanilla? And what is the purpose of the sun steep? I wanna know! I like Everclear, 151 grain alcohol, for my limoncello. There is better than 100 proof vodka out there though, and not quite as rude.

That's pretty cool, and $200 including the deluxe bundle is not too bad. I wonder if the database is ammendable and/or updatable? 300,000 products sounds like a lot, but there must be a million unique UPC's out there. Somebody needs to tie into the debit account, so when you slide your card at the grocery store it updates your pantry. The grocery stores already store scan data for inventory control and product management purposes.

I suspected as much when I saw the bagel signs (I bet they are good bagels, too). Will be out and about today with my daughter and we will be checking out the various flea markets. The fleamarket at the Greyhound track the last time I went only had a few berries. Mostly citrus, squash, beans, okra and tomato. I like the market on 441 north of Sunrise (it is a branch of the SwapShop market on Sunrise), but that is a little bit of a haul for me to do on a regular basis. Festival fleamarket is almost in Palm Beach County. Will continue to explore, and thanks.

915 Duval is only open for dinner, and a big locals place. Its a tapas and wine bar, but does have regular portions. The name is the address, and it is very easy to find. BO's Fishwagon and Opera are always favorites. What kind of festival is going on down there in April? Aren't you afraid you will fill up at the festival, and not have room for more food?

Sheesh. TIME. Give it time. Patience. Let it steep and sleep. Sure, shake it once a week, but don't expect something wonderful at this point when it is a two to three month experiment. Babies take nine months, you guys are getting a short project. All will be revealed in the end. Artificial sweeteners are not necessary, and personally I would not consider them until I was horribly dissatisfied after a fair shake at the recipe. PS There are some long term members of AA who would have very stern things to say to people about drinking vanilla extract.

I've seen that video, and sure it skeeved me out. But honestly, rats are going to be wherever people are and are a codependent species. Nasty, but codependent. We have issues down here because of agriculture. When we were in Palm Beach county, we were semi-rural, and lived within walking distance of a U-Pick tomato field. Wonderful, right? I thought so as well, and picked and put up tomatoes all spring and fall. Unfortunately, when the field was ploughed under in the fall, the rats then moved over into our subdivision and began feeding on the citrus in the neighborhood. They can be semi-controlled, baits - traps - poison. Then you have to worry about the beneficial predatory animals that feed on them - not to mention domestic cats. We are next to an empty lot right now and have seen a few small ones (all outdoors, thank goodness). We went ahead and poisoned - but didn't feel good about it. But I have too much invested in my tomatoes right now. Get pest control in there, make sure the food is secure, and inspect vigorously. But shuttering at the first sight of a rodent dropping is a bit hyper sensitive. The rats have to eat too!

Wow, sombody went: Food Fest Numbers

This has been the best part of the empty nest for me. No pressure to cook a full meal, if we don't want one. No requirement to sit at the table, we cuddle on the couch and yell at whatever is on the TV, if we want. No rules, breakfast for dinner, cheap chinese takeout for dinner, a steak and a hunk of bread and blue cheese with no pressure for a veggie, if we want to. Then, there is the seven courses cooking and eating over a lazy weekend day selecting the courses as we go along, when we want to. Oh, and the sometimes "I'm having ramen and an egg" and "OK I'll have a chef salad" because we want to. Most weeknight evenings we still have dinner at the table together, well rounded with all the food groups represented. We don't feel guilty a bit, though. All those years of "whoever hits the door first after work starts a balanced meal for five" we consider our dues.

This is interesting: Amish from Douglas County find Warmth in Florida And, Floridians can enjoy the food:

Well, Sarasota is catching a clue: County Unleashes Doggie Dining Discussion

Ran across this press release today: Living Tomorrow Launches in the US I like the energy and water consumption monitor, and it would be nice to have an electronic inventory of the pantry and fridge (but wouldn't I have to scan the product in?) but I am left a little cold by the instructional video.

Cool, what do you do with them? When I lived in Palm Beach County I would pick them up at Rorabeck's for anywhere from $12 to $17 a flat depending upon the season. I also had a bigger bunch to feed at the time. We moved down here to Broward in October, and I am still hunting for a place like Rorabeck's, but haven't settled on one yet. There is a place next to the Greyhound track on US1 that looks promising, but they were closed when I stopped by last weekend.

Here's a guide to Sport Fishing in Florida in March, there is a lot more going on in the Keys than Pompano or Yellowtail (though I love both) Clickhere for sport fishing in Florida It's the Marlin, Amerjack, Tarpon, etc. etc. Some edible at a large size (Mahi), some not, the grouper example you gave. Any reef fish, actually, including snappers, can carry ciguatoxin. You would have to give up a whole lot more than grouper to avoid fish poisoning altogether. You would have to give up any fish that feeds on other fish and lives in the vicinity of a reef in the tropics around the world, including Hawaii and Australia. I don't know about you robyn, but I am not willing to spend the rest of my life restricting my fish intake to farm raised talapia. Fortunately, it is rare, and I am willing to take the chance, personally. For reference Click Here From the site: Now oysters, I don't eat them often personally because they never really did anything for me. My husband is willing to take the risk, and is well aware that shellfish of all types are natures little waste vacuums. What type of oysters do you eat, or are you doing without? I thought it was the great snapper switch they found on the menus. Will have to dig around.

Oh man, I sweat garlic too! And I love garlic! I am waiting and watching to see in anyone has an answer. Raw parsley helps the breath, but does nothing for the BO (and we are fragile flowers, you know, and don't care to be stinky). I don't know about ethnicity. I am a mutt, but there is quite a lot of the British Isles in my ancestory. My German husband has no such problem, and eats roasted garlic an inch thick on bread.

Let's see - that's about five and a half pounds - about $7 per pound if I am doing my math right (and I may not be ). That does seem quite high, even for free range/organic, but I bet it is tasty. Is that American Dollars, or Euro? There could be a conversion factor, I suppose.

Hey rooy1960! We're having homemade strawberry ice cream this week, the only problem is that my ice cream maker is too large for just me and hubby, and homemade just doesn't keep that well, so I have to wait until I have a crowd. Blue cheese is mad good homemade. I mix it up per salad any more. I did the same thing when I first found eGullet - something new on every thread, and my cooking has certainly improved.

Hi Gina, Beautiful confit, and those turkey wraps on your blog sound yummy. This second version sounds like just the ticket for lighter spring food. I burned out a little on the confit over the winter holidays.

I buy the "stuffers" and grill them low. I am partial to a little gristle, though. Guilty pleasure.

There is also a "country style rib" which is actually shoulder.

I may be wrong, but I think it is an anatomy thing. The shoulder "butts" up against the joint. Please post results. I love porky goodness.

/sarcasm on Oh, salt, saltpeter and epsom salt. Yummy. /sarcasm off