We had some crabs with friends and had a few leftovers. What a crisis! So many options. I usually have a weird hangup about combining crab-meat with cheese… it seems disrespectful or something. A few weeks ago we went to Gertrudes and they served some crab up on an English muffin with some melted cheese….
I guess people do eat crabcakes in Maryland, occasionally. I have some opinions about crabcakes but I think I should leave them out of this. I do make crabcakes on occasion, particularly for special occasions, and often in miniature form so there is enough to go around. A pound of decent crabmeat will set you…
Shad Roe season is over but I somehow forgot to post this one. As though you’re cooking along at home. Well if you are, you can make croquettes from basically anything, as my cookbooks frequently demonstrate. I had some leftover shad roe so I made these. The recipe comes to EDBM care of “John Ridgely”…
If the obsession baffles you then maybe I haven’t emphasized the importance of Shad but it is in fact our “founding fish.” I also want to give a shout out to Paul Greenberg whose article on getting over it and using whole fish for economy and environment was handed to me by my mother early…
I had some illustrious company and wanted to serve a classy meal. Where better to take cues from than the illustrious Hotel Emerson. Hotel Emerson by Aubrey Bodine @ MD Historical Society The hotel was the brainchild of Capt. Isaac Emerson, the man behind Bromo-Seltzer and its parent company, the Emerson Drug Co…the 220-foot-high, 17-story…