Deviled Crab...

[norgeway]

Donald likes this and since I had a few cans of crabmeat I decided to make it tonight, another Betty Feezor special..
1/4 pound butter
1 finely chopped green pepper
1 finely chopped med onion
2 heaping tbsp flour
1 cup milk
1 pound crabmeat
seasonings....I add salt, fresh pepper, about a tsp or so of lemon juice and Worchestershire..
Melt half the butter and saute the onion and pepper until tender,add the rest of the butter, then the flour, stir like making a roux over med heat until thickened, add milk and cook until thick.." I add about 2 big tbsp of bread crumbs also, then add crabmeat, mix well and season, fill shells and sprinkle with buttered breadcrumbs...I use Panko, bake at 400 until brown and bubbly.

 

[circlew]

Those sound & look really good!

 

[danemodsandy]

I Should Try This One

Devilled crab is one of the few seafood dishes I'm actually fond of. For the most part, I am not that crazy about most seafood, though I'll eat most of it to be polite. Lobster, which so many people adore, bores me. To me, the stuff is worth about eight dollars a ton. So, I can take or leave most of it.

Except shrimp. Not. Gonna. Happen.

 

[norgeway]

Im with you Sandy!

Seafood in general is not something I really crave, its wayy too expensive for one thing, before I will buy lobster I will buy a standing rib roast or a leg of lamb, I can and will eat most seafood...except oysters...uhh uh noooo way!

 

[danemodsandy]

Oddly....

Oysters are another seafood for which I can actually work up a little affection.

My mom was fond of oyster stew, and served it with some regularity in the Winter. I grew up liking it, and still do. Since we're talking Atlanta in the '50s and '60s, we're also talking Daufuskie canned oysters. I'll still bet we were the only kids of my acquaintance who ever tasted oyster stew.

I'm also very partial to smoked oysters. They do not turn me emerald green, nor do I have to go unswallow (thank you, Phyllis Povah).

Not crazy about oysters on the half-shell, though. Nor fried oysters.

Thought for the day - not original with me: "It was a brave man who ate the first oyster."

 

[firedome]

As a certified native Merliner from Bawlamer...

I LOVE oysters (or Ersters, in the Eastern Shore waterman's vernacular) on the half shell...but they better be fresh! As to the recipe.. where's the Old Bay?

 

[mikael3]

That crab surely does look tasty. I'm kind of surprised Mrs. Feezor calls for green pepper and not pimento, that classic addition to so many Southern concoctions of this sort. I'll have to try that recipe soon.

On the topic of seafood--I'm from an area deep in the mountaints of the rural South, but I'm not alone in remembering fried oysters as the almost mandatory Christmas Eve dinner. A lot of the old people remember going to the train station to buy them by the pint out of large barrels--filled up on the coast the day before. When I was a child, I remember buying them at some seafood shop some fellow ran out of his garage!! Can you imagine?

To this day it just isn't Christmas Eve without fried oysters, although I can't make them as good as my great-aunt did. We were all real seafood lovers in my family, but in retrospect, it does seem a bit odd, given our geographical location. Maybe it's a Virginia thing.

 

[wayupnorth]

Those from Maine should love all seafood. But I hate it. After every Friday as a kid having to eat awful tasting seafood, I said never again. I want meat. All my neighbors and friends love seafood but not me.

 

[norgeway]

I didnt tell this...

But I left out the green pepper, not my favorite flavor, pimento would be better, the Old Bay would be good, I use it in salmon patties, just didnt think of it..

 

[washdaddy]

The deviled crab looks delicious- hopefully "love" i

I myself can sympatize with people's feelings towards seafood. I'm also from the great lands of Merlin, born bread and raised in Bawlmer. My mother's parents were from the Eastern shore originally and although my grandfather retired as a Steamfitter in his younger days he was a waterman on the Chesapeake. He never did give up his love for being on the water, fishing and crabbing. Many a time family and friends would get a phone call telling us they were having crabs. Gordon (grandpop) steamed the crabs and they were always delicious (And don't you dare touch them unless he said it was time!) Virginia (grandmom) would take care of the fish- making baked fish (yummy if it had her sweet n sour sauce) or homemade fish cakes (that were out of this world- tasted just like a crabcake). I am not a fresh fish eater unless she made it. I was blessed to have them into my 50's but they are gone now. No one can make that food the way they did. You could use the same recipe but there was always a difference in the way it tasted. It was missing the "love" that went into their cooking.

 

[kevin313]

Hans,

Any recipe that lists 1/4 pound of butter as the first ingredient gets my attention!!

This really sounds good - I love crab dishes. And since it's one of Betty's, I'll have to give it a try.

I will always cherish my Betty Feezor cookbook!!!

 

[perc-o-prince]

Sounds good- crab is on the short list of seafood I like. That did sound like a lot of green pepper though.

But I l-o-v-e the way you baked/served it! Those are to die for!

Chuck