[Moorf]

... and I've no idea how to cook them?

Before I start Googling does anyone here have any suggestions?! (keep 'em clean!)

:nice1

[Pip]

lucky lucky girl! I think there is a good Rick stein recipe for chilli crab, but you might have to google it..

Enjoy!

[Nathan]

Start with a good bottle of wine.

[jubjub]

First off, don't scratch!

I reckon have a surf about for a Jamie recipe or maybe even (dare I say it) a Delia....

Ohh, hang on... http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410940/1381956, saw Logan & Brown getting interviewed last night...

[Carol]

*laughing my head off*

[Moorf]

Just preparing them now - had our neighbours round for a post-gardening drinky - and screamed house down as, when I took them out of bag, one blew bubbles at me...I now have to kill a crab :wah

[Moorf]

PS - Nathan - I'm gonna need the wine, just read about removing its stomach sac... :uhoh :exit

[Carol]

If I was you Moorf..... I'd get someone else to do it!

:nice1

[Moorf]

Strangely, I had just turned to Woz and said "you're the man, you do it" :o But, as we've got two, we're gonna do one each!! :roll

[brianw]

right thing to do is go down to the beach and set them free, on the way back get some steak !!!!

[Moorf Junior]

right thing to do is go down to the beach and set them free, on the way back get some steak !!!!

Well if the crab was alive, whos to say the cow wont blow bubbles too :laugh

[Myrkk]

Hope you enjoyed them. From memory I think you just dump them in a large pot of boiling water, the "scream" they are supposed to make is the air escaping from their shells. So I've been told anyway.

I lurve crab but can't kill them......bit like lobsters.... My Papa and his friends used to go crabbing down the beach and then cook them in some seawater at the beach before bringing them and cockles and muscles home.........always tasted lush but I can't do it myself.

[andy141]

Myrkk,

From memory I think you just dump them in a large pot of boiling water, the "scream" they are supposed to make is the air escaping from their shells.

Exactly right. I used to go crabbing amongst the rocks of North Anglesey at low tide when I was a lad. My mother(Moorf's grandmother!!) would refuse to cook them as she thought the high pitched noise as they were immersed in boiling water was the crab screaming!! Mind you she didn't mind making yummie crab salad after they had cooled!!

Brianw --- I wonder what sort of noise a cow makes when it's murdered?

Andy

[Smiler]

Moorf

How did you get on with the crabs? :confused:

Tried cooking one that I'd caught whilst diving. It threw up on the kitchen floor just before I put it in the boiling pot. That was it for me. :(

[Moorf]

Check the Dinner Tonight thread in Lounge :nice1

I'm glad u mentioned your vomiting crab after I'd eaten ours!! :D