Crab cakes and Homemade Potato Chips
My night to cook. After we went to a local crab cake place (which, unfortunately, has since closed) last month, Michael commented that we could probably make our own crab cakes at home. Crab was on sale this week (not the jumbo lump, but the back fin) for only $7.99 a pound at the grocery store, so I decided to try. I followed a Cook's Illustrated (of course) recipe that uses very little ingredients other than the crab -- just scallions, a little breadcrumbs, a green herb (I used cilantro), egg, and seasonings. For my first time cooking with crab, they actually turned out pretty good. (And much cheater than buying crab cakes at a restaurant). Next time, if I decide to use cilantro as the herb again, I probably won't use as much. For the potato chips, I used our mandoline to slice the potatoes (the food processor takes too long to clean up), fried them up in the deep fryer, and dusted them with salt and Old Bay. Yummy.
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