I went to a great Chinese restaurant recently and they gave me crabs!
Soft-shelled crabs, of course.
They were both crunchy and soft at the same time. Sometimes they are prepared with Five Spice. These were heavy on the garlic.
Yum.
There was also a nice platter of seafood stir-fried with asparagus.
Pea tips.
Platitude cookie alert!
Ah, but you DO express yourself with charm and humor!
^_^
Mmmmm . . . nice to see your adventures with Chinese food again. Always a pleasure.
Yummm, I also love soft shell crab……..with lots of garlic.
That poor ass-pah-ra-Gus… sharing that plate with the crustac… crustea… claw!
“Ah, but you DO express yourself with charm and humor!”
True.
I read that softshell crabs are the whole crab when the shell is soft in Spring. I assume they are, um, cleaned of the yucky stuff inside.
The last one’s so true, unless one gets overly political.
:)
Not this time. Nope. These pics don’t hold a candle to the pot of chili and Italian meatballs (19 of them) that I made tonight. Yeah. I know. I didn’t intend to eat them together and really have explanation for why I made them both on the same night–and spaghetti sauce as well! My fortune cookie (the imaginary one) read, “You express yourself with tomato sauce.”