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Someone observed recently that I'm the sort of person that puts photos of my Apple Crumble on the board.

I don't make apple crumble.

But when Cornish crab is £2/lb off this week, I buy it!! Just the job for Avocado salad suppers.

Tim, that looks lovely, I love crab, hope you enjoyed your salad.  It's a shame we haven't got lovely hot sunshine to sit out and enjoy it too...

Some people can be so cruel (and incaccurate) can't they tim ::)
Love crab. That was one of the reasons I went to live in Folkestone - two crab stalls and a fisherman's market on the quay within 100 yards.
Do you de-crab it yourself?

What I have observed, is that you (Tim) produce visual art, and I delight in seeing your pictures portrayed on this forum.

I gather that the standard of material produced by the complainants is obviously superior.

The only crumble I have produced is that in the rhubarb crumble ice cream listed on this board. And I have produced even less pictures.

Please continue ...

tulippa - a whole pound there - 8 salads!!

Curry - the crumble comment was very much in jest - by someone who has taken my remark as such.

Sprouty - no - too much hassle, & we don't use the brown meat. Except as 'butter' in a crab sandwich. But Lobsters, yes. When I used to be able to afford them. By the way, what are 'sookit piltocks'?

yum yum pigs bum!  And the brown meat is my fave slathered on brown bread!  yumsky!  So looking forward to our long weeked in Norfolk....Croma crab for breakfast, lunch and tea, with a crab sanger with my pint after the kids are asleep!

I think Lomsters are overrated, would choose a crab first any day, and lurve Dorset Spider crabs.  mmmmmmm.  Hungry now and I have already had my toast with plum jam!

Totally agree about lobsters - almost always overcooked anyway.

They were fine fresh out of the deep rock pools in Jersey. A few decades ago!

Yes Tim, I realised that your post was made in humour, I missed the original comments so couldn't relate them, so I responded simply. Keep the images coming though, I enjoy them, even if they are catalogued under apple crumble ...  ;D

Although I enjoy most fish, I have never been partial to crab or lobster ... such is life.

Can anyone tell me why Cromer crab doesn't just come from Cromer. Had a cottage in Norfolk some years ago and and got a tasting for it. I was suprised when I saw it from other parts of the coastline.

Tim. Memories. I also love crab. Charlie really enjoyed them but he had a "caveman" way of eating them :) When he was still able to sit at the table he would have the crab (complete in shell) have his useful tools at the ready and would sit removing and eating to his hearts delight, he would have a little  fresh baked crusty bread beside him.

Kevs plot. I wasn't aware that they didn't come from Cromer, have spent a few days at Cromer and bought what have been listed as Cromer crabs. We also have an excellent fish stall on our local market who sell Cromer crabs. Where ever they come from they are delicious. :)

And Cheddar Cheese comes from.......??

mmm crab.... I'm totally spoiled now after being introduced to Alaskan King Crab by friends in Seattle a couple of weeks ago. The legs were 18" long! We had one each... they were 2" across at the body end  :o :o

Now I know why those textured crab sticks look like they do.

(Though while I was out there, I tried loads of different things, including rock lobster, the crab, clam chowder, loads of sushi inc. octopus (!), tuna, halibut... I think the crab leg was the winner)

moonbells

I love crab! The first time I ever tasted it I was 6yrs old and was camping with my parents in a desolate spot in the NW tip of Scotland. My father was a mountaineer and every Whit break a team of climbers went to this campsite to scale sea-cliffs.

The only amenity on the camp-site was a water-tap a mile from the site ... no toilets and the nearest shop was about 10 miles away so we had to stock up on food to take with us.

Unfortunately my mother didn't have much imagination when it came to cooking so we generally survived the week on some dreadful tinned variety of 'mock food' called Chunky Chicken boiled up on a primus stove and sandwich spread on Sunblest bread.

One year, my dad and his mates befriended the local fishermen in a pub in Kinlochbervie and they took them out on a fishing expedition. One of the climbers was also a trained chef, so on the evening of their return from the trip we had a bonfire on the beach with fresh grilled fish and 'professionally dressed' crab in the shells.

It was a sublime moment for me and particularly awkward for my mother as I refused to eat tinned Chunky Chicken ever again.

My favourite is fresh crab on granary bread with shredded watercress, a squeeze of lemon juice and fresh mayonnaise ... preferably eaten within spitting distance of the sea-shore (not that I would be spitting the sandwich out  ;) )

Fishmongers are increasingly rare these days  :( A dreadful shame.

yum!  The more this subject is talked about the more I am longing for some shellfish!  I would happily give up meat and just eat fish and shellfish!  My first real memory of eating crab was when I was a nipper and we went on holiday to Norfolk, not far from Croma, a campsite called Kelling Heath.  On the site there was a little shack which sold seafood.  Croma craps were 20p each, and I have one a day, everyday for the 2 weeks.  My grandad (in his fitter days) used to go down the cliffs at Abbotsom in Devon and go crabbing and lomstering and eeling with a  long stick with a wicked hook on the end.  Oik them out of their hiding places in the deep rock pools.  Mmmmmm...and when I was even younger, sorry, rambling now...memories...we all used to go cockling at a place called Skern Mud just outside Appledore in North Devon.  It was the ash dump and the refuse lorries used to come in and dump all the rubbish on one side - where the sewage pipes used to pump out, and over the wall the muds were rich and smelly and tidal, and we used to fill our buckets with devine fat cockles.  Can't do it any more...against EU regulations, and health and safety.  Thanks for that wander down memory lane.  ;D

Hooks? We used to oik octopus in the same way in Jersey.

Bit unkind, looking back on it?

Hmmmmm...pics of apple crumble and a pic under a posting titled 'Crab Sandwiches' without the bread......hmmmm...  :o ;D ;D

Tim, since I saw that pic early this morning, can honestly say that crab's not been too far from my thoughts all day! Last lovely crab was eaten at a Crab House in North Carolina last October.....too too long ago :(

Remember splendid crab sandwiches bought on the quayside at Brixham a short while back.

Local fishmonger or a travelling shop, btw?

The US - where they can afford a pound of lump Crab for a salad - or use it in Fish Cakes. Hate them!!

www.martins-seafresh.co.uk, Lishka. Lovely people.

'Crab Sandwiches?' - an invitation for you to bring the bread.

Quote from: tim on May 25, 2006, 09:15:03
what are 'sookit piltocks'?

good scrabble words in olde scotse :)
sookit=simmered
piltock=saithe
http://www.shetland-museum.org.uk/collections/maritime/subsistance_fishing.htm

Always wondered!!

Marylandcrab steamed with Old Bay spice, dumped on a newspaper covered table and attacked with mallets.....YUM!!!Does NOT get any better... ;D Hungry now.