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Post by Village Idiot on Mar 20, 2009 20:53:50 GMT -5
Long story as to how my family has had a cabin at Scientists Cliffs since the 1930s, but we have. It is a beautiful bit of the Chesapeake Bay, as there are no harbors around so you see no boats, jet skis, or any of that stuff. I spent a bit of time there as a kid, and know a bit about catching croakers and using their heads to slowly reel in a blue crab. It's been probably 8 years since my family has sat down to a blue crab feast. One of those meals that starts and 6:00 and isn't over until 10:00, taking that long to pick those crabs. I'd have to be reminded as to how to pick those things again. The under-shell looks like the Washington Monument, all that stuff. My folks are out there every year, but haven't had any crabs since that big hurricane a few years ago whose name I can't remember. And yeah, those softshells were good. Spider sandwiches, we'd call them.
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Post by sekhmet on Mar 21, 2009 9:18:05 GMT -5
If we're talking about ocean insects I concur that north east lobster is the best going.
My first memory of lobster is in Nova Scotia, Advocate Harbour, with all my cousins and aunts and uncles, my grandmother, parents and all three sisters having a lobster boil on the beach down by the Red Rocks. The cousins and uncles were all lobster fishermen and we had all we could eat from "below deck".
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Post by Village Idiot on Mar 21, 2009 9:31:37 GMT -5
My aunt and uncle want us out to Cape Breton Island in June for one of those lobster boils of which you speak, Sek. I'd love to be there, but can't right now.
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Post by HarmonEyes on Mar 22, 2009 1:43:22 GMT -5
Hey Rick,
Years ago I used to go crabbing off the Jericho beach wharf with a bunch of friends. Sometimes the less scrupulous crabbers would try to keep the crabs that were less than the regulation 6 inches wide. But every now and then the guys we called the crab cops (department of fisheries?) would come by and check everyone's catch just to make sure.
Man, those crabs were delicious!
Hope you enjoyed them!
Harmony
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Post by theevan on Mar 22, 2009 7:00:52 GMT -5
If you want some exoskeleton-clad water creatures to eat, come join me from some of these, which are gloriously in-season right now. Beats a Maidrite.
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Post by theevan on Mar 22, 2009 7:01:33 GMT -5
I'll agree, though, nothing is sweeter than a Gulf blue crab.
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