Sauteed Hotels!

[bif]

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Weirdness
For some reason, the size designations for soft shell crabs are thus--Mediums, Hotels, Jumbos, and Whales. All I can say is however came up with those names must have been high. But that's what they are. I cooked a couple of these up the other day, and I have to admit, although it was unusual to eat a whole creature, they were tasty!

Ingredients
Fresh, soft shell crabs
Flour
Olive oil
Lemon

Directions
Rinse the crabs. Dust them with flour. In a frying pan, sauté them three minutes a side in olive oil and serve with lemon slices.

[hobbit709]

1. I put them on a demi baguette and have my own version of a po' boy.

[Warpy]

2. Whoever named them

must have been thinking about condoms.



I wish I could get things like that, but even in Boston, it was cooked, hard shelled crabs from Maryland or nothing unless someone had flown in some super expensive king crab legs.

This is my kind of recipe these days, no complicated "layering," just good food, simply prepared, that allows the ingredients to sing simple harmonies.

[bif]

3. I can't believe you can't get them there

I live In Detroit and we can get them here. Maybe you need to look harder? You're on the the East Coast!

[Warpy]

4. I'm in NM

I can get 20 varieties of chile pepper but no soft shelled crabs.

[bif]

5. Sorry.

I mis read your post. i thought you were on the east coast.