Stone Crab Claws

[PaulaJK]

I have a vague memory of eating these with a lightly

flavored mustard sauce. We're having them for Thanksgiving.

Does anyone have a recipe for a mustard sauce....or will

be be doing cocktail sauce again?

[Steve Plotnicki]

It's the instant magic of eGullet. Ask a question and poof................

Joe's Stone Crab Mustard Sauce

[Dave the Cook]

For stone crab, the mustard sauce is preferable--I think it masks the iodine taste better.

Here's the recipe from Joe's Stone Crab:

4 t dry mustard

1 c mayo

2 t Worcestershire sauce

1 t A-1 steak sauce

2 T half-and-half

pinch of salt

pinch of cayenne

Mix together, check for mustard/salt balance.

Happy thanksgiving

[PaulaJK]

Thank you for saving the day..........

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

[Jason Perlow]

actually I'd like to know where to be able to mail order quality Stone Crab claws since CRABBROKER.COM stopped selling to the general public.

[Steve Plotnicki]

If you click on the recipe link for the mustard sauce, that will take you to the Joe's Stone Crab site. Do you know how to navigate to the mail order page or do you need instructions?

[Jason Perlow]

You ever hear the expression Jews Dont Buy Retail?

[Steve Plotnicki]

Well why don't you call Joe's and ask for the telephone number of their wholesale division? They pretty much have an exclusive on stone crab distribution from what I understand. If you're ordering jumbos invite me.

[Jason Perlow]

I like Joes as a restaurant but somehow I get the impression their mail order prices arent that great. I could be wrong though. I'll call em.

This place seems to have good prices:

http://www.freshchoiceseafood.com/main.html

Course shipping seems expensive but I guess for Stone Crabs you pay to play.

The Jumbos are great but value wise the medium sized ones are better. They certainly dont taste any different.

[Jason Perlow]

As far as Stone Crab distribution goes... I hear Joe's gets pretty much all the Florida ones but a lot of stone crabs also can be found off the Texas Gulf Coast. The ones from CrabBroker.com were really, really good and thats where he got them from.

[PaulaJK]

Jason,

I can't provide 'wholeszell' but I got my stone crab claaw

from Freeman's Fish Mkt in Maplewood. They were delicious...

and the mustard sauce was a major hit.

[howard88]

Kings supermarkets; at least the one in morristown ,nj has joes stone crabs all the time when in season at a good price for Kings. My father the published poet said after we went for a meal at Joes, it was very good; but its cheaper just to eat your money!