{"id":199,"date":"2016-02-01T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/01\/crab\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:39:23","slug":"crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/crab\/","title":{"rendered":"Crab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TCYXoMGR3ig\/Vq96xWsAs9I\/AAAAAAAAhtI\/wfTCRnAWXqU\/s1600\/crab1.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TCYXoMGR3ig\/Vq96xWsAs9I\/AAAAAAAAhtI\/wfTCRnAWXqU\/s400\/crab1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2QpZnW1d2og\/Vq96yIzeQ6I\/AAAAAAAAhtM\/BY5jyeyjxaw\/s1600\/crab2.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-2QpZnW1d2og\/Vq96yIzeQ6I\/AAAAAAAAhtM\/BY5jyeyjxaw\/s400\/crab2.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">H<\/span>ere&#8217;s an impulse buy from the last time I went shopping! A cooked crab at an irresistible price. I had never dealt with one before, and was a bit bothered about it, because most of the books that mention crab say that after you have opened the crab up, you should &#8220;Remove the Dead Men&#8217;s Fingers&#8221;, without any clues as to where they might be. One of our newer books, Prue Leith&#8217;s &#8220;How to Cook&#8221;, has pictures that make it quite clear where these disturbingly named features are, and I&#8217;ve labelled them above.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">A<\/span>fter about half an hour&#8217;s work, I had a large amount of broken crab shell, dead men&#8217;s fingers, and assorted gubbins, and a small bowl of actual crab meat. A <i>very <\/i>small bowl.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-00XNgfCGhe8\/Vq96yErsKiI\/AAAAAAAAhtQ\/KIdZM6zoxys\/s1600\/crab3.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-00XNgfCGhe8\/Vq96yErsKiI\/AAAAAAAAhtQ\/KIdZM6zoxys\/s400\/crab3.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">I<\/span>n the end, I decided to add it to this risotto of butternut squash, beans and asparagus. It made a great improvement to the flavour.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an impulse buy from the last time I went shopping! A cooked crab at an irresistible price. I had never dealt with one before, and was a bit bothered about it, because most of the books that mention crab say that after you have opened the crab up, you should &#8220;Remove the Dead Men&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/crab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crab!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}