On Aug 14, 10:10*pm, pamjd > wrote:
> I enjoy fake crab. * I have not cooked with the real thing . *My
> Grandpa alsways said if you can't afford a Cadilac don't test drive
> one . * *So I got to thinking if I minced it and baked or fried them
> into balls could I use it in pocket pitas with cucumber sauce and
> shredded lettuce, *Or soft shell tacos. *What is your experience with
> using a quality fake crab product?
> Thanks in advance.

If you can stand fake crab, just make crab salad (like tuna salad) and
use it in the pitas with some lettuce, sliced tomato and maybe some
onion (like felafel).

I do confess, I have a strata recipe that uses different kinds of
seafood. When I have made it for groups, I have used fake crab and
fake lobster but I I ALWAYS use real shrimp - cut in half if they're
large or left whole if small. NO "commas" (salad shrimp). Also - I
won't eat the fake crab or lobster so I put it in sizable chunks -
then I can find it!.

Lynn in Fargo