Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:07:14 GMT, notbob wrote:
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> > OTOH, I once had a very severe reaction to something. I ate two
> > different meals within 18 hrs. One was two live dungeness crabs I got
> > from Ranch99 and boiled myself (40 mins at full rolling boil) and the
> > other a great dinner at a new Korean restaurant I'd never tried.
>
> 40 minute boil for dungeness crab? I steam them for 10-12
> minutes. At 40 minutes, and pathogens were sure to be dead. It
> was the Korean food :-)

I noticed that too. Forty minutes? I steam them
for the same time you do, when I get crab, which
I haven't done in years. I fried up some frozen
Maryland-style crab cakes from Trader Joe's this
morning, and that reminded me why I don't eat
much crab. I think shrimp have a better flavor
than crab or lobster. The main advantages of crab
and lobster are texture and, in the case of lobster,
the size of the tail muscle.

Trader Joe's has recently started selling tiny
pink shrimp in cans from Oregon, $2.99 for a can
with a net drained weight of 4 oz. Expensive,
but for a canned product it's pretty good.
I wasn't aware that tiny shrimp were harvested
in Oregon. Many years ago, I used to buy tiny
frozen shrimp from Alaska, but apparently that
fishery has crashed.

An instant food that is pretty darn good is a
can of that shrimp, drained, and slathered in
Trader Joe's Greek-style Feta Cheese Dressing.
Just talking about it is making it hard to resist
putting those together right now.