Comments on: Thursday Night Smackdown: The Kind of Crabs You Want to Have

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:05:54 +0000

kat, you are most welcome. my ennui is slowly funneling off, and i hope to be full steam ahead in the new year. in the meantime, i'm glad i can still amuse. curly, i blame myself for not having sent the dog to CCD. and it wasn't even the jewish dog who did it. (yes, we made one of our dogs jewish.) kristin, ooh, yours does crepes? smashing! i have never been to NO and i MUST GO and eat eat eat. forkful, don't compliment me, compliment susan spicer. i just followed the directions like an automaton. karen, i feel a little better about my crabmeat, it was only a shade more expensive than yours. it really is a great little book; the apple, hazelnut and comte salad is an especially nice late fall/early winter treat. kay, today is definitely a split pea soup kinda day, at least in new york. it's so fricking cold, i don't think numbers go that low. other karen, heh. amy, yeah, well, our dogs have been with us for more than a year, and this is NOT their first interaction with a christmas tree. hence my ire.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:30:44 +0000

The very first year we got our dog, Charlie, he ‘watered’ our Christmas Tree too. And personalized some gifts we’d already had wrapped and waiting under it, in the process.

We had crab cakes last night, I was duly inspired by last week’s TNS, unsuccessful though you said it was, to try my hand.

It ended up being a high pair, as opposed to the royal straight you are posting about today.

By: Karen@MIgnardise

Karen@MIgnardise — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:09:29 +0000

I really, really want to make, I mean eat, that right now. And if I had a husband who made me hot cocoa, whatever the brand, I would make it tonight for him.
But I don’t, so I’m not.
I’ll wait til he’s out of town.

By: kay

kay — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:02:39 +0000

Yum. And furthermore, yum. I want some of that, right now. But as I am neither at your house nor in the Crescent City, I’ll make do with warmed-up split pea soup I brought to work, and it was damn fine split pea soup, too! (But that stuff looks like baby shit when it’s cold…)

By: karen

karen — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:10:24 +0000

My husband is originally from a little tiny bayou town in Louisiana and a lover of all things containing crabmeat. He would eat it every day. If you must know the truth, I get a little tired of it especially when he’s purchased a sack and boiled the buggers so “we” can pick them and have crabmeat in the freezer. (Most of it gets eaten as it’s picked and very little makes it to the freezer and yeah, the last time I bought lump crabmeat a pound of it was $24.00 (probably(?) cheaper than you but we do still live in the lovely bayou state). I buy all of our meat and poultry ON SALE so we can indulge his tastes. Thirty dollars for groceries? Buy crab meat because you want some RIGHT NOW and next payday you can get those pesky staples for the frige.)

That said – I’m buying that book – this looks too good to be true and I’m having that for dinner. My husband thanks you. Gotta leave work and go to the bookstore.

You are awesome.

By: aforkfulofspaghetti

aforkfulofspaghetti — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:13:03 +0000

why did I say crabCAKES right there?

I meant ‘crabs’ dammit. The only CRABS I want to have.

Sheeesh.

By: aforkfulofspaghetti

aforkfulofspaghetti — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:11:55 +0000

I don’t know about ‘the kind of crabs I want to have’. More like ‘THE ONLY kind of crabcakes I want to have’. And preferably, like NOW.

Awesome gratin, Michelle.

By: kristin @ going country

kristin @ going country — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:14:44 +0000

My husband is the designated Cocoa Maker, too. I cook everything else, but cocoa is all him. Crepes, too. Works for me.

Also, nothing from New Orleans can ever be bad. My mom’s from there, and every time we went to visit my grandparents, I came home five pounds heavier and never wanting to eat again. ALL THEY DO IS EAT THERE. And drink. It’s great.

By: curlywurlyfi

curlywurlyfi — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:24:25 +0000

Genius, genius. that sounds delicious. If only there were a way to work in some avocado we’d have been right back in 1983 (but in a good way). Also, the Christmas tree bad dog? actually made me laugh out loud, thank you.

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:53:56 +0000

Hey Michelle,

I just wanted to say: thank you for the hearty giggle. I know you’re struggling to keep up your enthusiasm for this project right now, but it’s posts like this that I (and, I’d ASSume, other readers) come for. I love the way that you take a joke and run with it. The crack joke, tossed in so casually, just totally tickled my funny bone. After a really long day at work, it was nice to have something to make me smile.

Thanks for soldiering on and being witty in the face of ennui.

Cheers,