[Sca-cooks] Recipe and menu ideas wanted

[ysabeau]

I have a great recipe for crab meat...but it isn't period but 
maybe you can use the idea for #2. You ~have~ to trust me on 
this...it doesn't sound good but I grew up eating this and it is a 
family favorite. No idea where the recipe came from but I think it 
is Cuban origination. 

Take a bottle of spicy-ish BBQ sauce and a jar of spaghetti sauce. 
Mix the two together to get a spicy combination adjusted to taste. 
I usually do a 1:1 ratio at first then adjust with Louisiana Red 
or something similar. It should be a spicy tomato sauce at the 
end. Traditionally, we would steam/cook cut up crabs in the sauce 
then layer the table with newspapers. Cook a batch of spaghetti 
noodles and serve the noodles with the sauce on top and garlic 
bread on the side. Then spend the next couple of hours sitting on 
the porch and drinking beer while you pick the meat out of the 
crabs. Nowadays, we just buy lump crab meat and add it to the 
sauce instead of steaming the whole crabs in the sauce. Depending 
on whether you can get affordable crab meat, this is easy to eat 
for those who can't chew well...except maybe the spaghetti noodles 
will have to be cut shorter.

Ysabeau

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jeff Gedney" <gedney1 at iconn.net>
Reply-To: gedney1 at iconn.net,
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:34:04 -0500

>>Hello!  I have two questions to throw to the group:
>>1) I'll be running an all day kitchen in a couple weeks.  Asking 
>>for donations, I got 2 big cans of crab meat.  
>>It's about 2 lbs.of crab, so I figure an appetizer type 
>> something, but what?   <snip>
>>2)  I want to "one-up" my supervisor.  We plan parties/special 
>>lunches around the various holidays.  I work with adulis with 
>>{profound & severe} developmental disabilities.  Most have 
either 
>>problems with chewing & swallowing or have no teeth.  
>
>My first thought is Crab cakes. 
>If you make em small like large tatertots, they can be fried 
>and used as finger food, with a nice slightly spicy dip sauce. 
>You can shred the ingredients small, to make chewing easier.
>
>but... 
>lets see Mediterranean context... 
>You can use the Crab, with some scallions and herbs (to your 
>liking) as a filling for savory crepes... 
>
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