Final Peparations...

Wow! Class starts in just a little more than 2 weeks from now. Today I had to get a Tuberculosis and Hepatitis test done which left my arms looking like swiss cheese (Emmentaler) because the poor nurse had never taken blood from a life person.
The other day we had a dinner party and I would like to share one of my recipes, so here it is...


Grapefruit Crabcakes

serves 4

5 TBS Butter melted
1/2 cup thinly sliced celery
2 TBS chopped scallion
1 TBS flour
1/2 TS dry mustard
1/2 TS cayenne pepper
1/2 TS salt
1 TS worcestershire sauce
2 TS grapefruit juice
1/4 TS tabasco
600 grams lump crab meat
3/4 cups breadcrumbs
1 grapefruit

Sweat the scallions and celery in the butter about 5 min at medium - low heat, add flour. Set aside and let cool off a little. Add the crabmeat and all the spices making sure everything is evenly distributed.
Form mixture into 8 balls, cover with breadcrumbs and panfry in 360 degree vegetable oil. Until golden brown (on both sides - duh)

Serve on a thin slice of grapefruit.

We had a 2002 Trimbach Riesling with the crabcakes and I thought it worked well.


If you decide to make the crabcakes let me know how you liked them. Maybe you have some suggestions for improving them - I would like to hear about that too...