Friday, December 19, 2014

Joshua's first crab of the season...and ours too!

 This is Joshua's favorite food on the planet!  Crab... fresh crab...from our buddy, Jim.  Jim is a fellow-Marine...and he and Joshua have a lot to talk about.  Tonight, Jim brought the crab over and they sat around with a 6-pack talking.
 After some visiting time, Joshua and his Pop got ready to whack the crabs...
 they have to be backed..
I won't go into that, it kind of makes me .. well, it's kind of gross...
Ron was getting those creatures ready...
 Joshua was showing that he was ready...
He picked up a couple of the crabs for a picture...
until we heard,
"Josh, Josh!  Get him off!"
and there was my guy, with a crab stuck on his finger.
 Ron asked me if I wanted a quote:
"I shook him a little bit and quickly realized he wasn't coming off!  And it hurt...bad!"
 Joshua got a big knife to pry the pincher off..
then my poor guy just walked around for a while because it was hurting...
and bleeding..
 Notice the raised fingers on the counter?
Joshua had to take over completely..


 Once they were all backed, in the pot they went... Once the water came back to a boil, they had to be cooked for 20 minutes..



 The 20 minutes was up, they went into the bowl...
 They had some cool water run over them to cool them down...
They were put on ice...getting ready for Joshua!
 Joshua let them cool for awhiile...
a short while...
and then he said,
"I think it might be time for some crab!"




and finally, a re-creation of the scene when his Pops got attacked by the crab!

Thank you so much, Jim!
This Marine definitely appreciates this crab!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a nice looking haul! Hopefully some more crabbies will shuffle their way over around Christmas!

As dramatic as the crab attack recreation appears, I cannot imagine the horror of seeing the maiming take place in person.