Fish Friday (on Saturday!) Crab!

I'm a day late with our Fish Friday recipe and it's not because I forgot... it's because I didn't have any time to sit down and post pictures.  Things are busy around here getting ready for my daughter to start school next week, preparing for some LOF events and, of course, hurricane Irene!  We're bringing in the summer lawn furniture and making sure the boat and all of Herm's traps are as protected as they can be from the strong winds.  He just repainted it and made some repairs so we don't want anything to happen to it!

This Fish Friday we are celebrating crabs.  And because of time and because it is really the best thing to do with crabs- our recipe is crab rolls!

You will need: bread, mayo, crab.  Done.  No spices, no garnishes.
We like Hellman's mayo but whatever kind you prefer is fine.  The trick when making a crab meat roll, or even a lobster roll, is to pat the meat dry.  If you don't pat the meat dry the mayo and mixture can end up watery and then your bread gets soggy.  Also, for my crab meat roll, I didn't use a roll at all but rather homemade bread.  Because that's how I roll. (I couldn't help myself with that one.)   I still butter and brown the bread in a pan over med-low heat.  Mix the dried off crab meat with some mayo and voila!

Uncooked crabs flexing their guns and giving me the eye.

How to cook 90 crabs: big pot, tank of propane, burner, about 4 inches of water, steam until done.

Sucker people into helping you pick them out.  We had 90 crabs and 4 people.  Two people might have eaten more than they picked.  The other two worked for about 4 hours.  Suckers.

Create a system.  First we rip all of the legs off of the bodies, then the big claws are cleaned, then the little legs and then the bodies.

These are all the little leggies.

We heart crabs!

Bait tray full of crab shells!

Mix crab meat and mayo.

Assemble into a sandwich.  I ate mine with some yummy heirloom tomatoes from the farm and some Cape Cod potato chips.  And I obviously did not skimp on the crab meat in my sandwich.