Crab Recipes

Enjoy! -- Melanie

Made for a birthday party and everyone loved them. People that didn't like mushrooms also suggested using the seafood mixture to stuff potatoe skins.

I made for a bithday party and every one loved them. People that didn't like mushrooms suggested that that would also be a go mixture to stuff potatoe skins.

You will love this recipe. It comes straight from Maryland where our family lives and has been cooking crab cakes (and also a wonderful crab soup) for years. You won't be disappointed.

Including shrimp and scallops along with crabmeat gives the cakes a particularly robust flavor accented with a little hot chile.

Serve with french bread slices or crackers. Also makes a great filling for mushrooms.

Stuffed mushrooms are always a party favorite, especially when they are filled with fresh, delicate Dungeness crab. Using the food processor saves time in chopping.

This chowder is standard fare at the Virginia governor's mansion. Originally developed by sous chef Thomas Sears, it survived more than a few administrations. Not heavy, as some chowders can be, it has just the right amount of creaminess to allow the flavor of the crab to blend with the corn.

Lasagna is one of my all-time passions. The natural bitterness of spinach plays the foil to the sweetness of the crabmeat. This recipe honors my friend Glen Fischer's memory, for his lifelong support of human rights. Lasagna was his specialty.

Clams Casino: little necks stuffed with onions, sweet peppers and herb stuffing and topped with the winning combination of bacon. In this recipe I will give you two ways to make casinos. One is for when you have the time and want to impress someone and two a good and simple way.

Nothing says summer like freshly steamed seafood at an authentic clambake. This would also be good with a nice Caesar salad.

Tilapia is a tropical, spiny-finned freshwater fish native to African and the Middle East and a member of the cichlid species. Over the years it has become an important food product has been introduced and cultivated worldwide. The meat is basically white, although may have a reddish tint to the meat because of the skin. If it has traces of brown, it because it was not skinned deeply enough e red skinned tilapia. Cooked the meat is opaque but stay away from the skin. Tilapia's have a pretty skin but should not be eaten due to a bitter flavor.

In the 1840's, people from around Rhode Island began to come to Narragansett to take advantage of its sandy beach. Narragansett's first hotel, the Narragansett House, was built in 1856. Between 1866 and 1871, ten hotels were built transforming the Narragansett Pier from a rural agricultural port to one of America's busiest seaside resorts. Of the many buildings constructed along the pier during this period, the most prominent was the Narragansett Casino. Designed by the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White, the same firm that designed the Rhode Island State House, the Casino was completed in 1886 and quickly became the center of life at the Pier. In its grandeur, It offered boating, billiards, bowling, tennis and other sports. It also contained stores, restaurants, a theater, a ballroom and a bandstand. In 1900, a devastating fire destroyed the original Narragansett Casino. Only the granite towers spanning Ocean Road remained. It was rebuilt in 1905 and remained on the site until 1956 when the building was once again destroyed by fire. Today, only the Towers remain. As legend would have it, Clams Casino originated in the kitchen of this Casino at Narragansett Pier in its hay day. Clams Casino Clams Casino: little necks stuffed with onions, sweet peppers and herb stuffing and topped with the winning combination of bacon. In this recipe I will give you two ways to make casinos. One is for when you have the time and want to impress someone and two a good and simple way.

A classic!