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24 February 2004 - Are You Crabby? Dinner last night was quite delicious. I spent most of the day cleaning our cat-hair infested apartment; put the living room rug out on the balcony to air it out a bit, scrubbed both the living room and kitchen floors, vacuumed, dusted, waxed the coffee table...on and on and on. I figured that if I had the energy to do it I might as well get it done because nobody knows how I'll feel tomorrow. Anyway, as gifted of an apartment cleaner I may be, my cooking skills last night might just have dwarfed that particular talent. I felt like something light, after having pasta and cake at my parents' on Saturday and not-so-homemade tacos on Sunday here at home. I had also managed to polish off the dregs of a bag of cookies for lunch (hey, they went really well with my afternoon cup of peppermint tea!), so no pasta or carbohydrate-laden meal was going to satisfy me for dinner. AND, I had to trek off to my cake decorating class afterwards, so I don't like to eat heavy meals on Monday nights regardless. I had found this recipe last week, I think on the Food Network site, for Salmon Cakes...and we almost never eat fish unless we're going out for sushi and other than the whole recent salmon scare, I think fish is one of the best things you can eat (being a bit partial since I happen to LOVE fish), especially when you need a good protein boost (ask me sometime about how eating sushi when I was in the hospital actually made me better!). SO..(do I talk too much?), in an attempt to make an excruciatingly long story short, I revamped this recipe (to lighten it up a little, and to utilise the cans of crab we had in our cupboard) and made somee very yummy crab cakes. Most people probably think of these little beauties as appetizers, and they could be made smaller and would thus make great finger-foods, but they were the main course for our dinner. Absolutely scrumptious, served with dollops of a new quasi-creation: wasabi guacamole, atop mixed greens with a maple-peppercorn vinaigrette and on the side, a nice thick slice of hearty, crusty white bread (which would have been even more delicious if I had brushed it with a spicy olive oil and grilled it!).
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