we're eating Mr. Crabs!

the County Market Square in Antioch carries a ton of fresh fish including live crab at only $3.99 a pound - we couldn't resist cooking up a few. We made our first attempt last weekend w/the Roberts family - the 5 crabs sat patiently on the kitchen floor somewhat moving their mouths and leaving behind some green residue. Brian's uncle Rodney advised us to only cook the crab for 20 minutes adding Bay Leafs to the pot of water -sigh- we didn't really like the taste of the bay leaf (maybe we put to many), but the crab was still delicious.

Our second attempt, was this past Saturday. I called Fisherman's Wharf Grotto asking how to cook the crab, I figured add rock salt...that's exactly what he suggested! - 2Tbs. of rock salt to each crab, cooking the crabs for 18 minutes. SCRUMPTIOUS, DELICIOUS, HEAVENLY, just a few words to describe how Perfectly Seasoned the crabs were! These 2 crabs were pretty active, and they had EYES!!! When we cooked crab at the Roberts house, Melanie and I swore the eyes had been removed because the eye sockets looked empty. ~ see their black eyes ~ This time around Brian and I noticed their eyes sticking out a bit from the socket when alert and/or angry, but when nervous and/or scared the eyes hide which are no longer visible. I took some pictures and a video - just to show how angry one of the crabs were, hearing our excitement to kill and eat them. He even held the hand/claw of the other crab, consoling her. HA!

~ sorry that the video is sideways, I can't fiqure out how to rotate it ~ Does anyone know how? ~