Arrest of Atzerodt

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(08-23-2012 01:17 PM)MaddieM Wrote:  

(08-23-2012 12:50 PM)Julie-the-Cheesehead Wrote:  This crab and ham talk sounds so appetizing! I like to make crabcakes sometimes from frozen crabmeat (which is expensive here so only once in a while) but it would be great to try crabcakes from an actual Maryland restaurant someday. Maryland is probably #1 on my list of states I want to visit!

Oh, you lot! I'm on a diet. This is killing me!

I'm on a perpetual diet, Maddie, but I can dream!!!!

Jonathan, I suspect your grandmother used to pick the crabmeat out and sautee it before putting it on a sandwich? We do that, put it on half an English muffin, top it with cheese and stick it under the broiler long enough to almost melt the cheese. Surprise - we call it a Crab Melt.

They serve it at the seafood restaurant that we take all of our Booth Escape Route Tours to for lunch. You literally sit on a pier over the Potomac River. We tease tourists and tell them that Booth and Herold rowed right past Capt. Billy's restaurant and would have stopped in for cream of crab soup and a crabcake sandwich if the joint had been there in 1865 (it didn't get started until about 1945 when Billy Robertson got back from WWII).

Also, Jonathan: Did you catch crabs with chicken necks or bacon?

I know we're off thread here, but I think we're getting a good lesson in geographical culture. Right, gang???