Bob is a happy camper! We went to our friends, Diane and KK, home this weekend to spend some time with these two dear friends and to have CRABS for dinner!
It was decided when we got the invite that there would be lots of beer drinking with crabs and it would be best if we planned on spending the night. I think that was a good idea! It also gave mom and dad a chance to have the cottage to themselves and some time away from us!
A couple of hours after we arrived it was time to eat! Diane's mom, Louise, also joined us.
Callinectes sapidus is the name biologists have given our famous Chesapeake Blue Crabs. Callinectes is Greek for "beautiful swimmer" and sapidus means "tasty" in Latin. While "beautiful" may be a large leap from reality, the blue crab is prettier than most. Its top shell is a rich mix of olive green, blue and touches of red while the underside is a creamy white. "Tasty" goes without saying! At least to those of us who love crab cakes, crab imperial and crab feasts. Personally, I fall into the Crab Imperial category. I don't like picking the crabs. They're messy and too labor intensive for me.
Here's Louise taking one out of the steamer pot.
Here they are, ready to eat!
Now I just know that some of you reading this have had blue crabs before when you visited the east coast and now your mouth is just watering! Hmmm, Hmmm, GOOD!
Bob's first crab! The picture doesn't show it,,,but he's drooling, trust me.
No talking going on here, they are too busy picking crabs! See those tomato's? They were picked out of the garden this morning! Oh what a feast!
See what I mean about messy? YUCK! That's the part I don't like, for me its pick off a leg, wipe my hands, break the crab apart, wipe my hands...oh, no, no, no, this is not for me. I ate ONE and then moved on to the hamburgers, corn on the cob and tomatoes.
Louise's pile when she was done...well, done for awhile.
Diane and KK have two dogs, Clancy a white German Shepard and Daisy a Golden Retriever. They kept us well entertained.
Of course, there comes a time when even puppies tire out.
Bob and Louise share a special moment. These two just love each other to death!
Take notice of the plaque in the upper right corner of picture above. We gave this "mounted crab" to Diane several years ago. We used to live across the street from each other in our old neighborhood and Bob and Di used to go crabbing together once a summer. They'd leave in the very early morning and drive down to Wye Mills in Maryland, put the crab pots out and pull in the bounty. This one in particular was of good size and it wasn't supposed to be cooked but it somehow made its way into the crab pot anyway. We took it home and buried it so the ants could eat it and leave it clean of which they did a very good job. For several years it was displayed on our wall in our porch on not much more than a nail. Well, Bob mounted it on a wooden plaque, shellacked both the plaque and the crab and we had an engraved plate made up stating when it was caught, where it was caught and I believe something else is written on it but I can't remember what. We gave it to Diane as a remembrance of their crabbing times together, I believe for her 50th birthday, but don't hold me to that. My memory sure isn't what it used to be!
Bob, Louise, and me.
After Louise went home and everything was cleaned up we settled in around the kitchen table and talked the night away into the wee hours of the morning.
Sunday brought a beautiful day for us to enjoy. We sat around with Di and KK for awhile and then had to be on our way as we had a few more friends we wanted to visit. Time is going fast now, much too fast.
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