Fish and Pescatarian

Recipes and techniques for seafood, including fish, shellfish, and things that live under the sea - except Sponge Bob.  No one wants to eat Sponge Bob.

Crab Shrimp Cakes with Louis Sauce

Recipes in this PostGarnished Crab Cake Picture by Stu Spivack at Flickr

When I was a little girl living in Germany, my mother used to get frozen crab cakes. I loved them. A few years ago, I found a package of Zatarain's crab cake mix, and I made it with imitation crab. Yup, you heard me right - imitation crab.

Here's my thoughts on imitation crab. What is imitation crab? Imitation crab is made from surimi, a concoction of fish, usually pollock, a binder and flavoring. I never think of imitation crab as crab, I think of it as Krab.

I went to the market yesterday, and stood there thinking about what to make for Friday Food. Krab was on sale, and there was a nice package of small bay shrimp on sale as well. Since I was going to be making this for Amber's family as well as mine, I got both, and thought I would mix them together.

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Barbecued Potato Chip Tuna Casserole

Barbecued Potato Chip Tuna Casserole
Spane at the kitchen table

Barbecued Potato Chip Tuna Casserole may not by the prettiest casserole in the world, but it tastes very good. My mother would make this if we had leftover potato chips. My mother wasn't much into snack food, so this was not something we had a lot, but it is one of those comfort foods that I remember fondly.

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Lobster and rose petal salad

Lobster Rose Petal Salad with Lemon Butter Dressing - Great Grandmother's Recipe

Lobster and rose petal salad
Dressed Lobster and Rose Petal Salad

When I was a little girl, my mother used to go on about how she loved going to her grandmother's house when she would serve Lobster and Rose salad. I was always hoping that my mother would recreate the recipe, but she never did.

When my great-grandmother was making this salad, lobster was a lot less expensive. I decided that for my birthday, despite to cost, I would recreate Christina Jacobsen's recipe myself.

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Shrimp Stuffed Wontons

Shrimp stuffed wonton

Make these fried shrimp stuffed wontons as part of a Chinese feast, or enjoy them as an after-school snack. You can even make them in the air fryer.

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