
steamed king crab legs
March 3rd, 2010 admin

This week I’m on a whirlwind business trip with meetings in four cities. The schedule is packed, so fare like airport nachos (pleasantly tasty, by the way) is serving as our sustenance. Not a big deal for a couple days, plus I made sure to enter the trip nice and nourished. Over the weekend, I made fresh steamed king crab legs at…
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In October ‘07 I took a crab-buying trip to the Trident Seafoods processing facility on Saint Paul Island. It is the world’s largest crab production facility. The efficiency of the plant was amazing, and I took a lot of pictures. I wanted to show our customers how the fresh (& frozen) king crab we offer is processed. ...

King crab season opened on October 15th. Technically, there are several king crab seasons here in Alaska, but “Bristol Bay” is the big one. The target species is red king crab , which is the regarded among connoisseurs as the best of the 3 commercially-harvested species in Alaska. The quota for 2008 is a healthy 20,354,000 pounds. ...

The fishing grounds. I received word yesterday that it took fishermen a couple of days to get “on the crab”, but the harvest of Alaska king crab is now proceeding at a good rate. The Trident Seafoods plants at Akutan and Saint Paul are expecting their first deliveries on the 20th or 21st. (On the map, Saint Paul is one of the 2...

When I was younger, and just getting FishEx started, I worked as a deckhand on crab boats fishing on Alaska’s Note the royal blue highlights on the shell of this Saint Matthew blue king crab. Bering Sea. I fished for blue king crab around St. Matthew Island back in ’98, and it has the dubious distinction in my memory of being the worst season...

On October 15th the King crab season started. Alaska’s Bristol Bay Red King is set at 16 million pounds on par with the 10 year average although less than the year before and the Bering Sea Snow Crabs are set at 48 million pounds again less than years gone by but on average. The levels for
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Tonight's dinner! We received our first shipment of fresh snow crab (opilio) in from Trident’s Saint Paul plant today. With Valentine’s Day this weekend, coordinating this fresh shipment was a bit of a “nail-biter” for me. There is only one freight plane leaving the island on Wednesdays- so I’m always worried...

I am on the last leg of my trip now. After spending time in the Midwest and the…Texas (it’s a region unto itself), I am on the east coast. I’m spending the week in Washington for work and then headed up to Burlington, VT over the weekend to see friends who just had a new baby. Translation: Virtually no kitchen access...

Want to experiment a new recipe with crabs? Then, go ahead and do make Crab Cakes like I did and you will keep on making them time and again. Serve these cakes to your guests and you will be filled with compliments for your cooking talent. Ingredients 12 oz. Dungeness crab meat, cleaned 1/2 cup chopped potato chips and chips for crusting the cakes...

Heres a wonderful recipe for cooking fresh crab from Sue Method: Set a large pot of water deep enough to cover crab on stove to boil (don’t add crab yet) and add: Ingredients: 1 large bay leaf a generous handful of dried onion flakes (saves time) OR half a medium onion cut into slices 1 teaspoon of dried minced garlic (not
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Steamed squid with pork and prawn mince stuffing, served with asparagus and white sauce.
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