Today is Valentine's Day and the store had 6 pre-cooked frozen dungeness crabs for 6 bucks. So there's part of Valentine's day dinner. Now what the hell should I do with them? So far, I'm just thawing them, then gonna rip out the meet and serve it cold with cocktail sauce unless anyone has a better suggestion. Side dishes will be steamed asparagus and fried bologna.



Just kidding about the bologna.

Cold, with garlic butter.



I made spam curry once...

Edit: You could always serve it with pasta too - Just toss the cold crab toghter with the warm pasta and Happy's garlic butter.
Sounds yummy to me!

OK. garlic butter sounds like a possibility.

Spam?

Now TJ, be sure not to miss my top tip, posted between yours and haps - There is genius in there for those with eyes to see!

Both ideas, hollandaise and pasta with garlic butter, sound good. Might do hollandaise on the asparagus and garlic butter with the pasta.

Don't feel pressured now.

Cold? COLD! Steam or even boil those legs!

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I'm with you on this one...
no self respecting san franciscan would eat them sushi style...

They were already cooked. Cooking them again would supposedly risk making them stringy. We dug the meat out and put it in with hot pasta with garlic butter. It was really good, but the best time was just hanging out in the kitchen picking out crab meat.

Couldn't help myself.

For relief of Dungenness crabs:

ya know, if they're not big enough, ya gotta throw um back!

Oh crap.

NO...NO...NO...
You're thinking of dungeon crabs.
They don't breed in the same waters as dungenness crabs.