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We have a fun tradition that we’ve started with Eric’s family of doing some kind of food “craft” for different holidays. Many of you voted for our gingerbread house contest (we’ll have another one this year so make sure you vote again!), and there’s also been a Peeps diorama day for Easter. But our most recent was, of course, a pumpkin carving day.
Would you vote for me to get to demo my recipe at the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival? Just click Buzz It for my Shrimp Alfredo Baskets.
Happy Halloween! I know several of you are carving pumpkins today, tomorrow I’ll show you Eric’s and my amazing pumpkin carving job. It’s awesome! Maybe you’ve noticed that grocery stores are dropping the price of their pumpkins starting today. We got a giant pumpkin for free from our CSA, but I also bought some smaller ones to use in the kitchen. Did you know that you can use every part of the pumpkin? If you want to make your own pumpkin puree, the small sugar pumpkins work best, but this year I even used a small carving pumpkin and found it still tasted pretty good in my pumpkin bars.
Would you vote for me to get to demo my recipe at the Foodbuzz Blogger Festival? Just click Buzz It for my Shrimp Alfredo Baskets.
I’ve been wanting a Vietnamese coffee pot or press for about 10 years and never bought one for some reason. But as I mentioned in my sushi post, I got a giftcard to AsianFoodGrocer and was thrilled when I saw their Vietnamese coffee set. In fact it was the first thing I put in my virtual shopping cart. If you’ve never had Thai coffee, or had it but never made your own, don’t be silly like me and wait 10 years to get a pot! In case you’re unsure, let me show you how to make Thai Coffee, and then I’ll give you not one but TWO recipes using Vietnamese Coffee, because I can’t stop at just coffee.
Spicy Dungeness Crab Sushi Roll
Yesterday I promised you crab sushi, and today I deliver! I guess these are basically a California Roll, or a Spicy California Roll since I add chili sauce. Eric and I love sushi, so it just seemed right to make it with our leftover crab. There are two reasons that I don’t make sushi very often. The first is that sushi is a lot easier for someone inexperienced like me to make when it’s a nori (or seaweed) wrapped roll. The second is that Eric doesn’t like sushi wrapped in nori. Fortunately, I learned about soy wrappers, which totally changes the sushi ballgame.
Dungeness Crab pan fried in Asian sauce
Are you feeling crabby today? Okay, I know, terrible pun. I get it from my father 
I always laugh at his jokes! But seriously, have you tried cooking Dungeness Crab before? I never had, even though I love crab and know that Dungeness Crab is totally sustainable seafood. Only the males are harvested and the females are left to reproduce. I’ve ordered Dungeness Crab at restaurants, but somehow never made it myself, until now. I was at Sam’s Club and saw several Dungeness Crabs for a great deal. The one I got only cost $6 and yielded about 1 cup of meat. I’ve cleaned and cooked crabs I caught in Hawaii, but I realize most people don’t know how to clean and cook a crab, so I thought I’d make a nice photo tutorial for you. Then I have the recipe that I made with it, an absolutely amazing Asian Sauce the crab is fried in. As a bonus, tomorrow I’ll give you a sushi recipe using fresh crab meat. Let’s get crabby!
