Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Lowcountry Dining: Crabcakes, Arugula, and Clementines


Post your dinner recipies! Here's what we had tonight:






For Crabcakes:
8oz Jumbo Lump Crab Meat
1 Egg
Juice of 1 Lemon
1Tbsp Mayo
1Tbsp mustard
1 Stalk Celery (diced)
1 Shallot(diced)
Dash Worchestershire
Dash Tobasco
Salt/Pepper
1/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
1tbsp Melted butter
chopped parsley

Combine everything but the crab in a bowl. Carefully fold in the crabmeat, let stand in fridge for at least 20 minutes. Pat carefully into cakes, dredge in panko and pan fry until golden brown.

For the Vinaigrette:
3 Clementines (2 peeled, seeded, reserved; 1 juiced)
tsp dijon mustard
1 shallot(Minced)
one clove garlic(minced)
Salt/pepper

Combine everyting but the sectioned clementines, whisk in olive oil until emulsified.
Toss with arugula, sectioned clementines, sliced onions and toasted almonds. Servr under warm Crabcakes.

Serves 2-4
Prep time: 15min
Cook time: 10min
Cost: $20.00
Wine Pairing: Barberani 'Castagnolo' Orvieto 2005 $10.00

4 comments:

Daph said...

yum. I gotta start writing down your wines gabe. Maybe you can make mea shopping list to stock up on.

Lainey said...

we had grant central pizza tonight
booo hooo

gp said...

that's what the blog is for! they'll be here forever.

Janis said...

wow that sounds like a "special meal". we had left over steak. i had no time to cook-shopping in new orleans all day. but i did have barbecued oysters with butter and garlic for lunch and a cold glass of chardonnay yum yum