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Marcr1 you could do it six times a year but you will only be giving yourself loads of unnecessary work, twice a year is loads
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Posted 27 May 2012 - 04:24 PM
Ah okay thanks! I think ill do it just before winter to protect the paint against all the grit etc though
Posted 27 May 2012 - 05:59 PM
A good wax will last 3-4 months, so you would only need to wax it 3-4 times a year at the most. In bewteen the time, a quick detailer will top up the protection for when the car is dirty.
Posted 28 May 2012 - 02:00 PM
Personally I`d be looking at a sealant rather than waxes.
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AB 455, which awaits a state Senate vote, would alter the composition of city and county civil service commissions.
That sounds innocuous. More specifically, unions would directly nominate half the members of the bodies that establish wages, work rules, and benefits; adjudicate workplace disputes; and set minimum qualifications and standards for job examinations. And, yes, the civil service commission sets the salary and benefit levels of San Francisco's mayor, board, and other elected officials.
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Civil service commissions appointed by elected officials have created a workplace "slanted in favor of employers," according to Darryl Lucien, a legislative aide for Assemblywoman Nora Campos, the bill's author. Campos' solution is to give direct appointing authority to an area's largest union, which in San Francisco would be the SEIU. In Campos' San Jose–area district, it would be AFSCME — which, incidentally, is the sponsor of this bill.
AB 455 would shake things up statewide, but in San Francisco its impact could be seismic. Here, the civil service commission isn't appointed by supervisors, but by the mayor. AB 455 would strip the mayor of that power, awarding half the appointments to the supes and half to the SEIU.
"Were the Board of Supervisors to appoint members of the Civil Service Commission, all of its direct appointees, it's safe to say, would be pro-union," says Don Casper, a commissioner for 11 years. "The members nominated — that is, appointed — by SEIU would be union advocates." This, according to the bill's creators, would remedy the problem of "slanted" commissions.
A Department of Human Resources memo obtained via public records request urges San Francisco's state legislation committee to lobby against AB 455. DHR claims it violates the "plenary powers" of our charter city and contravenes state constitutional bans on designating "legislative delegation to third parties." As of press time, the committee has taken no action. Six of its seven members represent elected city officials; perhaps they don't wish to make a poor impression.
Sorry but 'city managers' are not 'Labor (Labour)'..as in the Samuel Gompers (AFofL) sense of the term 'trades and labor'.
Yes, but guess what - City managers have an association which treats itself like a union ie MEA and this group was not only included in the Public Employees Committee's meetings having to do with so-called pension reform but it's Director Rebecca Rhine took a lead position during negotiations. The Public Employees Council is a committee of the SF Labor Council and is composed of mainly public sector unions. Including managers in these talks through their representatives certainly slanted the outcome. However, if management groups can act like employees and use labor committees to meet their own needs, then yes, labor should be able to influence salaries of the managers as much as they do any other employee. You can't have it both ways,though management will try!
If such a thing passes then I say the residents of San Francisco deserve the over taxation and continuing destruction of the city.
This is like the tobacco company leaders/managers/vps having a say in putting in a leader that is a tobacco advocates on the Health and Lung association of the Federal Health Board. Pure idiocy!
In case you didn't notice, this would be a statewide change, not SF-specific. Still ludicrous, but don't blame it on San Francisco.


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Ooh …an asparagus bed! I keep putting off starting mine ….
I roast mine as you do and we love it! I sometimes drizzle olive oil and italian seasonings on it also. Yum yum!
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Yummy! I love asparagus and can't wait to try this method! Thanks!
Yum, will have to make it the way you did sometime. My husband grills asparagus often when it's in season. He brushes the asparagus with olive oil and cooks it on the grill, then coats it with parmesan cheese.


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PPS talked with customers at eight public markets across the US to find out what appealed to them about shopping at a market. The top response was that it brought people in the community together. Not only did the answer confirm the attractiveness of markets as social gathering places, it also showed that markets can draw customers–and become more self-sustaining–by building a sense of community.
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How can an old retail development thrive when facing stiff competition from a Wal-Mart across the street? For the Plaza del Valle–a stretch of stores along Van Nuys Boulevard in Panorama City–a public market may hold the answer. Located in the Northeast San Fernando Valley, a primarily Latino area that lacks central gathering places, the Plaza features a mercado-style row of vendor stalls between storefronts and a parking lot in the rear. PPS's grantee, the Valley Economic Development Corporation (VEDC), saw an opportunity to introduce the kind of active, community-oriented public space that would stand out as an alternative to the big box nearby.
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As a result they are revamping the market, which originally offered only produce, as a weekly street fair with arts & crafts and restaurant vendors in addition to farmers. Social events and programs will also be added to the mix, including outdoor screenings of soccer matches and workshops about healthy eating and exercise.
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Oakland's Fruitvale Village is a 255,000 sq ft transit-oriented development (adjacent to a BART train station) with an impressive variety of uses: mixed-income housing on site and senior housing nearby, a public library, a community medical and dental clinic, a Head Start childcare center, offices, and a variety of retail on the ground-floor. The Unity Council, a community-based non-profit that developed and operates the Village, implemented a new public market this summer to tie these diverse functions together with a central gathering place. Like many of the grantees PPS is now working with, the Unity Council discovered that the market plays a key role in making a successful place, but that a comprehensive plan for public space management–even during non-market hours–is also necessary.
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Louisville: Creating a Place From Within
The intersection of 18th Street and Broadway is the heart of predominantly African American West Louisville – and the beginning of Kentucky's Dixie Highway (which stretches across the state). It's also the 23-acre site of a vacant 600,000 sq ft Philip Morris cigarette factory now owned by the city, which some residents now envision as a mixed-use district with a farmers market right on the street corner. In a neighborhood looking to spur economic growth from within and gain greater access to fresh foods, the market development is seen as central to accomplishing their goals.
"It will be a gathering place… It will be the core that everything will begin to revolve around."
PPS's grantee, the Community Farm Alliance (CFA), has established a number of partnerships in West Louisville with the goal of building a local food economy in Kentucky by connecting farmers with urban residents to foster food related businesses (read more on CFA). One of these partners, the Champions for West Louisville Economic Development–an organization of African American leaders dedicated to economic vitality in the area–plans to work with the city to redevelop the old Philip Morris site.
"We envision that would be the central location at West Louisville," says Reverend George Curington of the Champions. "We're looking at it as an anchor site going straight out to Dixie Highway." Curington describes the future development as a place that will mix small locally owned shops, light industry, and park space. The market would boost the appeal of the area as well as benefit from the mix of uses around it.
PPS led a Placemaking workshop for the Philip Morris site in August, offering a sense of opportunity for what could take shape there. "It was great–it brought some hope back to the community," said Curington "It will be a gathering place. It will be something for those in the West End who don't have transportation. It will be the core that everything will begin to revolve around."


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• Buffer credits - Up to 255 per port (target-optimized ports); 12 per port (host-optimized ports)
• Ports per chassis - 20 (Cisco MDS 9120); 40 (Cisco MDS 9140)
• Port configuration - 16 host-optimized ports, 4 target-optimized ports (Cisco MDS 9120); 32 host-optimized ports, 8 target-optimized ports (Cisco MDS 9140)
• Ports per rack - 1680 1/2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports (Cisco MDS 9140)
• PortChannel - Up to 7 ports (Cisco MDS 9120); up to 15 ports (Cisco MDS 9140)
Supported Optics, Media, and Transmission Distances
Table 1. Interfaces and Distances Supported by Cisco MDS 9100 Series Switches
• VSANs
• Zoning
– N_Port WWN
– N_Port FC-ID
– Fx_Port WWN
• Management access
– SSH v2
– SNMP v3
Minimum Software Requirement
• SAN-OS Release 1.2(1)
• Fibre Channel protocols
– FC-PH, Revision 4.3
– FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4
– FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4
– FC-GS-2, Revision 5.3
– FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01
– FC-FLA, Revision 2.7
– FC-FG, Revision 3.5
– FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3
– FC-AL, Revision 4.5
– FC-AL-2, Revision 7.0
– FC-PLDA, Revision 2.1
– FC-VI, Revision 1.61
– FCP, Revision 12
– FCP-2, Revision 7a
– FC-SB-2, Revision 2.1
– FC-BB, Revision 4.7
– FC-FS, Revision 1.9
– FC-PI, Revision 13
– FC-MI, Revision 1.99
– FC-Tape, Revision 1.17
• IP over Fibre Channel (RFC 2625)
• Extensive IETF-standards-based TCP/IP, SNMP v3, and Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIBs
• Class of service: Class 2, Class 3, Class F
– Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, FL
– Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD, ST, TE, TL
Fabric Services
• Name server
• Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
• Login services
• Private loop
• Public loop
• Translative loop
• Broadcast
• In-order delivery
• Name-server zoning
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Tools
• Power-on self test (POST) diagnostics
• Online diagnostics
• Internal loopbacks
• FC Traceroute capability
• Fibre Channel Ping
• Fibre Channel Debug
• Cisco Fabric Analyzer
• Syslog
• Online system health
• Port-level statistics
• Access methods
– Out-of-band 10/100 Ethernet port
– EIA/TIA-232 serial console port
– In-band IP over Fibre Channel
• Access protocols
– CLI - Through console and Ethernet ports
– SNMPv3 - Through Ethernet port and in-band IP-over-Fibre Channel access
• Security
– Role-based access control using RADIUS-based authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) functions
– VSAN-based roles
– SSHv2
– SNMPv3
• Management applications
– Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI
– Cisco Fabric Manager
– CiscoWorks 2000 Resource Manager Essentials
• Stateful process restart
• Per-VSAN fabric services
• Hot-swappable 1+1 redundant power
• Hot-swappable 1+1 fan trays
• Hot-swappable SFP optics
• PortChannels (up to 7 ports for Cisco MDS 9120; up to 15 ports for Cisco MDS 9140)
• Fabric-based multipathing
• Online diagnostics
• Configuration file management
• Call home
• Port beaconing
• System LEDs
• SNMP traps for alerts
• Temperature, ambient operating: -32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
• Temperature, ambient nonoperating, and storage: -40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)
• Humidity (RH), ambient (noncondensing) operating: 10 to 90%
• Humidity (RH), ambient (noncondensing) nonoperating, and storage: 5 to 95%
• Altitude, operating: Sea level to 6500 ft (2000m)
• Dimensions (H x W x D) 1.75 x 17.2 x 23.1 in. (4.45 x 43.7 x 58.7 cm) - 1RU
– Rack-mountable in standard 19-in. EIA rack
• Weight: Fully configured chassis: 25 lb (11.4 kg)
Power and Cooling
• Power supplies (300 WAC) (two per chassis)
– Input: 100-240 VAC nominal (±10% for full range)
12A maximum
50-60 Hz nominal (±3 Hz for full range)
– Output: 300W (100 VAC @ 12A)
• Airflow
– 250 linear feet per minute (lfm) average system velocity and 42 cubic feet per minute (cfm) total flow through system
– Front to rear air flow
Safety Compliance
• CE Marking
• CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950
EMC Compliance
• FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
• ICES-003 Class A
• EN 55022 Class A
• CISPR 22 Class A
• AS/NZS 3548 Class A
• VCCI Class A
Ordering Information
Table 2. Ordering Information for Cisco MDS 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switch


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This Pleasanton kitchen is a 'Gujarati Kitchen'
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Comments (10)
on Apr 16, 2012 at 9:12 am
These are the best kinds of receipe books,One's that are made from the heart and will pass through generations.
Congratulations, I hope to see this book soon.
on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:06 am
I love Gujarati food and cannot wait to get my hands on that cookbook.
on Apr 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm
Sorry, I can't stand Gujarati food, everything is sweet.
on Apr 17, 2012 at 5:48 pm
I thought the article was good and would love to try some of the recipes/food. What the article failed to do was explain what Gujarati is...I still don't know...
on Apr 17, 2012 at 7:19 pm
Gujarat is a state in Western India and food from there is Gujarati food. Most of it is vegetarian stuff. Above article may talk of non-vegetarian since there may be milk products. Not all Gujarati food is sweet!
on Apr 17, 2012 at 7:26 pm
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Gujarati is a high-performance Italian vehicle. How do I know? I've been vetted!
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on Apr 18, 2012 at 10:23 am
gujarati food is not always sweet, I agree with Amador resident, but compared to South Indian food its less spicy, but can be made spicy if needed.
on Apr 18, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Kathiawad in Gujarat has another variation of Gujarati food and it is really spicy! Some of the dishes are even spicier than some south Indian food. Most south indian food is not spicy!
on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:17 am
It would be great if Mrs. Hajratwala teach some classes in Pleasanton. I am looking for a book which explains how to cook fresh food quickly !! I am Gujarati but making Gujarati food takes too much time.
on Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 pm
I speak a few words in Gujarati! I lEARNED THE WORDS ON A TRIP TO BOMBAY.
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Ranging from microscopic, single-celled organisms to large seaweeds, algae are simple plants that form the base of food webs. Sometimes, however, their roles are much more sinister. A small percentage of algal species produce toxins that can kill fish, mammals, and birds, and may cause human illness. Other algae are nontoxic, but clog the gills of fish and invertebrates or smother corals and submerged aquatic vegetation. Others discolor water, form huge, smelly piles on beaches, or cause drinking water and fish to taste bad.
This deep red harmful algae, called Lingulodinium polyedrum, often produces brightly colored water discoloration. It has been associated with fish and shellfish mortality events, but its threat to human health is still being evaluated. (photo credit: Kai Schumann, California Department of Public Health volunteer)
Harmful algal bloom (HAB) events can be very bad for us. People who eat shellfish from waters experiencing toxic blooms can become very ill and can even die.
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HABs also have economic and cultural implications, especially in coastal communities dependent on harvesting seafood and tourism. They frequently disrupt the commercial, recreational and subsistence seafood harvesting and cause some to cancel beach vacations.
As a result HABs cost coastal communities a substantial amount. Coastal HAB events have been estimated to result in economic impacts in the United States of at least $82 million each year.
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Harmful algal blooms are not just a problem along the coasts. The harmful algae seen here along the shores of Lake Erie in Ohio is called Microcystis. Microcystis blooms are increasing in frequency and duration in the Great Lakes.
In December 2004, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Amendments Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-456) was signed into law.
This Act, originally passed in 1998, reaffirms and expands the mandate for NOAA to advance scientific understanding and detection, monitoring, assessment, and prediction of harmful algal blooms (HABs) and hypoxia (low oxygen).
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Tools and technologies being developed under the Act are helping coastal managers lessen or prevent impacts on human health and coastal resources.
Although all coastal states experience harmful algal blooms, different organisms live in different places and cause different problems. Other factors, such as the structure of the coast, runoff, oceanography, and other organisms in the water, can also change the scope and severity of HAB impacts.
To address these differences, NOS takes a regional approach in developing strategies for HAB management. By developing specific tools and information for areas of the country, including the Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, Northeast, Pacific Coast, Mid-Atlantic/Southeast, and Caribbean/Pacific Islands, NOS is able to advance management capabilities in dealing with all major HAB threats.
Approximate areas of the U.S. coast affected by various HAB poisoning syndromes and other impacts. (credit: U.S. National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
A University of Washington researcher collects sediment cores in Puget Sound to examine for seed-like cysts of the toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium catenella. A. catenella produces a neurotoxin that accumulates in shellfish. Cysts are deposited in the fall and lie dormant on the bottom. They hatch in the spring when temperatures of bottom water increase. Warming of bottom waters associated with climate change may allow cysts to hatch earlier, thus increasing the length of blooms of toxic A. catenella. (credit: Dr. Cheryl Greengrove, University of Washington Tacoma)
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Researchers onboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution vessel R/V Tioga conducting a survey to map the distribution and abundance of toxic Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine. (credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is leading NOAA efforts to research and understand harmful algal blooms (HABs), to develop tools to combat these toxic tides.
For example, NCCOS's Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Research Program is producing new methods to detect HABs and their toxins, to understand HAB dynamics, to develop HAB forecasts, and to predict and reduce impacts on people and ecosystems.
The NOAA Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms Research Program is expanding efforts to monitor waters and shellfish, to help more coastal communities know when they are at risk and how to respond.
A warning sign located on Marrowstone Island, Washington.
The Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms (PCM HAB) Research Program transitions promising prevention, control, and mitigation technologies and strategies to coastal managers.
PCM HAB also assesses the social and economic costs of HAB events and the costs and benefits of mitigation strategies, to help managers develop cost-effective management strategies.
The transfer of such technology can yield many benefits for the public, including healthier fisheries and ecosystems, fewer impacts of blooms on humans and the environment, and reductions in nuisance or harmful accumulation of algae.
NOAA's Harmful Algal Bloom Operational Forecast System (HAB-OFS) provides information on the location, extent, and the potential for development or movement of harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico. The forecast system relies on satellite imagery, field observations, models, public health reports and buoy data to provide the large spatial scale and high frequency of observations required to assess and predict bloom conditions, location and movements.
Finding HABs and measuring their toxins isn't easy. The methods that are traditionally used are very time consuming and require specialized labs. For example, HAB cells are often collected on a boat, preserved, and counted under a microscope, so the data are not available for several days. Faster, cheaper, and better methods of cell and toxin detection are needed.
Scientists, such as those at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, often use satellites to collect data on ocean color in order to determine the amount of live biomass (e.g. phytoplankton) in the ocean and to track algal blooms and differentiate harmful algae from beneficial species or even suspended matter in the water. Scientists combine this satellite data with data collected by research vessels to gain a better understanding of the occurrence, trajectory, and potential landfall of a bloom. This information can then be passed on to coastal managers and state agencies, so that strategies to deal with an impending bloom can be put in to place.
Researchers throughout NOAA are working on many different ways to detect and monitor algal blooms and their toxins. One example is the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network. This program trains volunteers
Domoic acid test kits are saving West Coast coastal communities and fishers effort and time in assuring the safety and vitality of a coastal resource they depend on, both for food and for tourism income.
NOAA scientists have recently developed a test kit for domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin sometimes found in shellfish. The test kit is designed to be easy to use and requires no specialized equipment. NOAA also funded development of a new test for brevetoxin, the Florida red tide toxin, that is now used routinely to screen commercial shellfish and in marine forensic investigations to help determine if red tide is linked to deaths of dolphins, manatees and other marine animals. Check out some of the links below to learn about the many ways that HABS are detected and monitored.
Map of Alexandrium fundyense cyst distribution on the Gulf of Maine in 2009. Cyst maps from sediments collected in the fall are used to predict the severity of the A. fundyense bloom the next spring and summer. (credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Advance warning of harmful algal blooms (HABs) increases the options for managing these events. First it is necessary to understand when and where blooms occur and how they respond to changing environmental conditions, through research programs such as NOAA's Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB) Program. Armed with sufficient information, it is then possible to predict blooms.
NOAA's HAB Operational Forecast System, run out of the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services and supported by the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, uses satellite imagery, field observations, and buoy data to determine the location, extent, and potential for development or movement of HABs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Conditions, including information on potential or confirmed harmful bloom events, chlorophyll levels, and forecasted winds, are posted as HAB Bulletins online twice a week during the bloom season. The bulletins also provide forecasts for potential human impacts associated with confirmed harmful blooms, bloom sizes, movement, intensification, and the potential for bloom formation.
Similar forecasts are now in developmental stages for the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Maine, and other 'HAB hotspots' around the country.
107 bottlenose dolphins stranded dead along the Florida Panhandle in 2004. Hundreds of dead fish and marine invertebrates were also discovered in the area. Read the NOAA report (pdf, 1.8MB) on this incident.
When harmful algal bloom (HAB) events occur, NOAA is there to help coastal states.
The HAB Response Event Program, for example, provides immediate assistance for managing events by offering technology and expertise, providing supplemental financial support for investigating events, and ensuring events are properly documented.
The Program assesses human health risks, identifies causes of marine mammal mortalities, offers training opportunities for managers, and establishes baseline conditions for new or re-emerging HABs.
The HAB Analytical Response Team, part of the Marine Biotoxins Program, provides scientific guidance and identification of harmful algae and their toxins during suspected HABs, during marine animal mortality events, and during human poisonings.
The following is a consolidated list of all external links referenced in this article.


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Filler-minimal crabcake recipe?
Does anyone have a good recipe for crabcakes that does not have much filler? I spent years living in D.C., and I am really picky about crabcakes. I don't want a lot of breadcrumbs or red pepper or other things meant to stretch the crab.
I'd like something with a binder and perhaps some spices, but just enough to hold the crab together. If possible, I'd like to broil them but I leave open the possibility of sauteeing. Thank you!
Faidley's are my favorite crabcakes in Baltimore, here's their recipe (from Southern Living):
Faidley's Crabcakes.
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
1 pound fresh lump crabmeat, drained
1 cup crushed saltines (about 20 crackers)
1 quart vegetable oil
Tartar sauce (optional)Preparation
Stir together first 5 ingredients; fold in crabmeat and saltines. Let stand 3 minutes.
Shape mixture into 8 patties. Place on a wax paper-lined baking sheet; cover and chill 1 hour.Fry crab cakes, in batches, in hot oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until golden. Drain on paper towels. Serve with tartar sauce, if desired.
Note: To sauté crab cakes, cook in 3 tablespoons butter or oil in a large nonstick skillet 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until golden.
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While my crabcake recipe is similar to a number of those posted here, I never seem to use exactly the same recipe. Last night I made them with a little mayo, mustard, chipotle hot sauce and instead of bread, I pulverized some roasted garlic triscuits and skipped the old bay. The results were delicious the triscuits didn't overpower the crab and the cake had a nice crunchy texture. I would definitely recommend it.
I tried Blanch's recipe last week, but needed about 12 saltines to hold together the crabcakes. I did mold them and put them in the frig for an hour before sauteeing in a combo of extra light olive oil and some butter. Delicious.
I would like to get a recipe for the crabcakes made with Wonder bread that were mentioned somewhere on this site, but not on this thread. Would love to try them.
FYI: I bought a 1 lb can of lump crabmeat, Phillips brand, at Costco for $13.99. The crabmeat was very fresh and delicious and I would buy it again in a minute. -
We did these at a friends recently and loved them! They were pretty loose, just put a scoop in the pan and flatten... let cook until they are well browned, that way they hold together when you turn them.
Has anyone used jumbo lump crabmeat that's been pasteurized? Turns out, that's what I bought, and now I see that one of my cookbooks (Best Recipe) says not to use it because it's watery.
re: CindyJ
Never had any problems. Always have a can in my fridge. If you're using QueenB's recipe the saltines should absorb any moisture if there is any. It will be from the crab anyway so probably will add flavor. Let the formed cakes "season" in the fridge for an hour before sautéeing - really makes a difference with any recipe.
I love Pearl Oyster Bar (in NYC) crab cake. The recipe was in cooking light magazine a few years ago.
This recipe is from the Arthur's Landing website (restaurant in Weehawken, NJ on the river). They posted it because they aparently got asked for it a lot. I have had the cakes there and they are great. I think they fulfull all of your requirements for minimal filler, no red pepper, containing spices, and being broiled.
5 lb. jumbo lump crabmeat, blue crab
2 large red onions, fine dice
1 bunch celery stalks, fine dice
1/2cup heavy cream
5 eggs, whole
1/2 tsp. Tabasco sauce
5 tbsp. Old Bay seasoning
2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup Dijon mustard
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tbsp. Chervil, chopped
1 lb. Panko breadcrumbsTools needed:
Rubber spatula, measuring cups and spoons, mixing bowl, mold to make crabcakes (not necessary), pound scale, sauté pan, canola oil or vegetable oil to sauté.
In a mixing bowl, combine eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, heavy cream, old bay seasoning, salt, pepper and chervil.
Mix ingredients well.
Add onions, celery, 3/4 of breadcrumbs to mixture. Fold together with spatula. Let mixture sit in refrigerator for 20 minutes to help breadcrumbs bind mixture.
Add crabmeat folding in gently so we don't break crabmeat into little pieces.
Place bowl covered back in refrigerator for another 20 minutes. Take bowl out make desired size and shape then gently coat all sides with remaining breadcrumbs. Place sauté pan on stove medium flame when pan gets hot add oil to coat 1/8 inch base of pan, sauté all sides till golden brown. Finish in 500 degrees oven approximately 6 minutes.
You can make the type of crabcakes found in restaurants using a velouté, a sauce similar to a bechamel but made with stock rather than milk. Use 2 T melted butter and 2 T flour combined in a saucepan. When bubbling, gradually add a cup or so of warm fish stock and stir until the sauce thickens. Remove from the heat. Add whatever seasonings you like in your crabcakes to the velouté. You can enrich the velouté with egg yolk if you choose. Spread the crabmeat in a shallow dish and pour some of the velouté over it and, tossing gently with a fork until you have just enough to get the crabmeat to stick together, being careful not to break up the lumps. You want the sauce to coat the lumps. Form into patties and refrigerate for and hour or two before sautéeing in clarified butter. It is better if you coat the patties in bread crumbs so that they are crisp outside and soft inside. I suppose you could broil them but I find that they dry out on the outside before the inside is well warmed and both sides don't crisp.
Traditional crabcakes in the Chesapeake Bay region include bread or saltines. The recipe on the Old Bay can calls for 2 slices of bread. Many recipes call for this much or more. It's not considered "filler" or a way to "stretch the crab" by people who once had all the crabs they wanted right out their back doors. It was just the way they always prepared crabcakes and still do. Upscale restaurants in cities have gradually changed the recipe to what many people now expect which is a crabcake with no bread. They're actually a lot harder to cook, they fall apart easily and give cooks fits. I'm rather fond of the old traditional style.
re: MakingSense
It sounds like we like the same type of crab cake. Several summers ago I made crab cakes two ways. One way was using the recipe on the side of the Old Bay can, the other was using this recipe and I had my husband do a side by side taste comparison. This one won out hands down. The dry mustard and Worcestershire sauce actually give it a good zing of flavor without overpowering the crab. (he thought this one had the Old Bay in it!) If you want a crab cake with lots of sweet lump crab and minimal binder and filler this is the recipe you're looking for. We pay around $20 a pound for lump crab meat at a local specialty seafood store when it's on sale. These are a real treat.
Maryland Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes
Recipe courtesy Jimmy Cantler's Riverside Inn, Annapolis, MD1 egg yolk
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 pound Maryland jumbo lump crab meatPreheat the broiler.
In a large bowl, combine the egg yolk, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire, mayonnaise, and parsley. Then, gently fold in crabmeat (be careful not to break up the lumps). Shape into cakes and broil for 5 minutes.
re: Axalady
I don't want to quibble on semantics, but Axalady is making Maryland Crab Imperial, not a crabcake. Without some sort of binder (crackers, bread, flour) it will not cake. Crab Imperial is usually broiled, and NOT turned over for obvious reasons. Have to admit, Imperial with jumbo lump meat is might tasty, and hard to find in restaurants. Agreed that OBS is often overused and ruins the dish...a little is all you need. The recipe could use some green onions, however.
re: OldTimer
A restaurant-style crabcake sticks together without bread/crackers/flour because you use something else that gets solid, usually egg or mayonnaise (egg plus oil). Axalady's recipe doesn't have very much egg or mayo so the crabcakes are probably pretty fragile and wouldn't be easy to sauté.
You are correct that some recipes for Crabmeat Imperial are very simple like this one and only call for the addition of egg or mayo and then the mixture is heaped into a dish or scallop shell and broiled or baked, usually with a crumb topping dotted with butter. They do generally have more ingredients such as the green onions you suggest or other things. The classic (and upscale) versions of Crabmeat Imperial are made with bechamels or veloutés. Neither has bread/crackers. Only the flour in the bechamel/velouté.
Frankly, the current upscale restaurant crabcake is so close to Imperial, they should probably just go back to that wonderful dish. Perfectly dressed crabmeat in a scallop shell. Who cares if it falls apart?
I like the taste of crab more than the taste of Old Bay spice mix, so I don't use it.
Curmudgeon's Crab Cakes
4 tablespoon butter
½ onion, finely chopped
½ cup finely chopped celery
½ bay leaf, finely minced
1 pound crab from claws
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons Grey Poupon or Dijon mustard
¼ pound Saltines, crushed into fine crumbs
salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs1. Sauté the onion, celery, bay leaf, salt and pepper in two tablespoons of the butter until soft.
2. In a bowl, combine the onion mixture and the crab. Mix in the lemon juice, mustard, and ½ cup of the cracker crumbs. Taste and add salt and pepper.
3. Add the two eggs and mix until incorporated.
4. Form the crab mixture into 8 patties. Coat with the remaining cracker crumbs. Place on a plate and allow to chill in the refrigerator for a few hours.
5. Heat the remaining butter in a large sauté pan. Fry the cakes in the butter until golden, then turn and fry the other side. Serve immediately.
Note: These are too good to mask with tartar or cocktail sauce. If you insist, maybe you just don't like crab.-
re: Curmudgeon
I like the taste of crab much better than I like the taste or texture of onion and celery in my crab cakes.
If you use the lesser given amount of Old Bay, you hardly taste it. More of a background flavor.
But, it's not required...just something our families always used.
Different strokes for different folks! -
re: Curmudgeon
A lot of commercially available claw crabmeat is mechanically picked, a process that often uses salt to extract the meat, so taste it when you use it for cooking. You may have to adjust the other ingredients in the recipe. I've gotten some "bargain" claw meat that was so salty I had to soak it before I could use it even for gumbo.
re: MakingSense
I need to recommend that you use the more expensive lump crabmeat. I think it makes much better crabcakes and the taste is better than the claw meat, IMHO.
When I've picked crabs, I've frequently noticed that the claw meat naturally tastes more salty and less sweet than the backfin. I wonder why this is?
re: QueenB
I personally don't use claw meat in my crabcakes as Curmudeon prefers, I was just cautioning against it because of a picking method that is sometimes used. Clawmeat can sometimes be dry because it is often from claws that are "thrown" when crabs are cooked. It tastes different in the same way that all meats from different parts of animals do. It's simply Curmudeon's preference and it does make a more robust crabcake. I know many traditionalists who find upscale restaurant crabcakes to be totally boring, especially when they are broiled.
Today's crabcake, especially as served in city restaurants particularly far from coasts, has become an upscale luxury product far from its traditional roots as fisherman's food in the crabbing areas in the Chesapeake and Gulf Coast. In those areas, crab pickers sent the lump and more expensive backfin to market to earn their living and often kept the rest of the meat for their own consumption. They made soups, crabcakes and other humble dishes. The prime restaurant uses were Crabmeat Imperial, Crabmeat Norfolk and stuffings for elaborate fish dishes.
Even just 25 years ago, fine cookbook recipes for crabcakes always included bread and other ingredients in recipes - never just crabmeat. Those recipes aren't seen anymore and the old dishes have disappeared from restaurant menus. The traditions still exist only in old fashioned restaurants, private homes, church suppers and backwaters.Cooking evolves but I hate to see good things forgotten. Your crabcake with lump crabmeat tastes good to you and that's fine for you to enjoy them. I miss the wonderful Crab Chop I grew up with in New Orleans that has disappeared from menus there. I can still find traditional crabcakes on Maryland's Eastern Shore near my house there and I've learned to cook them from my elderly neighbors who used to work in the crab picking houses. I hate to see classic traditional American food die out because so many people have come to think that a new restaurant version is what it is supposed to be. I feel a little guilty every time I prepare "company" crabcakes with no bread and lump crabmeat because it's another nail in the coffin.
re: MakingSense
If you don't use claw or lump...what do you use? Body meat? I've used that before as well, when I've picked my own. Just hard to catch blue crabs here in Texas, so I have to deal with whatever meat comes out of a can.
I grew up with the Delaware shore as my second home, so I appreciate the history lesson.
I like the recipe I listed above, from my friend's grandma with the saltines. I think crabcakes need that bit of binder. I also like to cook them in a pan with butter...again, I think they taste better.
Tell me about this crab chop...-
re: QueenB
If I don't pick my own crabmeat or get one of my neighbors to do it for me (in which case it's whole crab), I'll buy lump or what's called "special" in stores here, a mix of lump and body. I use lump for "company" or fancy dishes and "special" for family, traditional crabcakes or to make a stuffing for a fish. You're kind of far from the TX Gulf Coast so maybe you don't have so many choices.
I'm sure you remember the traditional crabcakes of the Delmarva from the Delaware shore that were served at fundraisers by churches, volunteer firehouses and plain old restaurants. Like your friend's grandma's but with more saltines or with bread. Those folks now do make the citified-style crabcakes to please the tourists. They'll take the money but there's a lot of eye-rolling, especially when they ask to have them broiled. In the old days nobody had anything fancy like a broiler but everybody had an old cast iron skillet.
Yours must be a pretty old recipe because it doesn't use much Old Bay, which wasn't invented until the 1940s. Some of the older people don't use it at all if they stick to their old ways. And they are always cooked in a pan.
A Crab Chop is just like the traditional Chesapeake region crabcake but it's formed around a big crab claw so it looks like a meat chop. Sorta funny. Every New Orleans seafood restaurant had it on the menu until just a few years ago when tourists started asking for crabcakes and of course they wanted the version with no bread. There went the Crab Chop! A lot of New Orleans food has changed since tourism is such an enormous factor in the economy. Things on menus now that I never saw growing up, other things have changed so much I don't recognize them as the same dishes.The "company" crabcake recipe I use with velouté as a binder (and lump meat) is basically the same as Crabmeat Imperial but with a stiffer version of the sauce. One day I made the Imperial sauce too thick and found that it bound better and had more flavor than any other binder that I had used before. I changed the milk to fish fumet, omitted the madeira and capers, etc. and there was the new recipe.
re: MakingSense
I have found the "special" at Costco once, and used that for my crabcakes. They came out well. At most of the stores around here, my choices are claw and lump...so I go with the lump every time, because I don't really care for the claw that much (texture or taste).
I have no clue how old that recipe is that I have. I'm sure that originally it didn't have Old Bay in it, and somewhere along the line, Blanche changed the recipe to reflect the advent of OB. At least, that would be my guess, as she was born in the early 1910's, and I assume was cooking crabcakes from way back.
The crab chop sounds good, though a bit strange. I find that many CC on the Delmarva peninsula now contain way too much Old Bay. I'm assuming that's because of the whole citified crabcake phenomenon as well...the more Old Bay, the more authentic it must be, right?
Thanks again for all the info.-
re: QueenB
Couldn't agree more about the heavy-handed use of Old Bay. Had some crabcakes at a local firehouse fundraiser on the Eastern Shore recently that made me want to put my face under the faucet! Tasted of salt, salt, salt.
About the only time I use claw meat is when I can get it cheap and I throw it into an ordinary gumbo, but then it pretty much cooks apart. Or I buy "thrown" claws and crack them to marinate for cocktail party snacks.Some of the canned pasteurized crabmeat is "special" grade. Generally a pretty good value. I usually keep a can or two on hand as it keeps a long time in the fridge. Makes great traditional crabcakes but may not satisfy those who want luxury restaurant style. Matter of individual taste.
re: MakingSense
Here, here, Mom always made crabcakes that was a combo of "special" crabmeat and claw meat. She swore the claw gave it a sweeter taste.
Cracker meal, egg, Old Bay,mayo, salt, pepper, dry mustard, a little baking powder.and Worcestershire, form and set in ice box for about an hour.
Deep fried to a golden brown.Set them on the back of the bar and sell them to the customers for $.25 each-
re: charmedgirl
Looks from the profiles that you and Hue are from the Baltimore area. Seems like cracker meal or crushed saltines are fairly common there. Talbot, Dorchester, Caroline Counties around the Choptank seem to use bread as do people in Tidewater VA and in the VA side of the Chesapeake (which I know doesn't really exist). Also along the Gulf Coast.
I've had both the cracker meal and saltine versions and they're great.
Is this a really old recipe? Grandmothers? I love that it was good bar food for Hue's family.
Here's a recipe from a true Maryland lady (RIP). She was the grandmother of one of my best friends.
Blanche's Crabcakes
6 saltine crackers, crushed
1 tsp. parsley
1 tsp. mayonnaise
1 tsp. mustard
2 Tablespoons melted butter
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tsp - 1 tsp Old Bay Seasoning (your taste)
1 pound crabmeat, picked over and shells removedMix all ingredients together and saute in a combination of olive oil and butter.
I don't see why you couldn't broil, but they may fall apart on you. They really are mostly crab, with just a slight amount of filler.


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So here's a small departure from the sports world.
I posed this question in the newsroom the other day: What are the strangest/oddest/most obscure albums in your music collection? (Then I had to explain what an album is to our 25-and-young crowd … you know who you are.)
Of course, as soon as I did that, the newsroom folks asked me, too. I originally asked because my wife and I had just gone through all of our CDs to weed out all the music we don't listen to any more. Our theme this year: Simplify. That means getting rid of all the junk we've accumulated for years and years. It's tough living with a pack rat. Ask my wife. Or me.
Anyway, I immediately delved into my collection and found a few. Most of the ones I'd pull from the shelf as exotic belong to Patsene, but I did find enough, I think, for a decent top 10.
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10. "I'm Your Biggest Fan, Vol. I"
A Tooth and Nail compilation. I listened to this one so much, I think I made the disc thinner from excessive play. It's got some great tracks from such wonderbands at Blah, The Inklings and Thee Pirates.
• Favorite track: Besides the opening clip — "I hate punks! I want to grab their ears and puke in their faces!" — is Spesial Guest's "My Life."
9. Ladysmith Black Mambazo, "Long Walk to Freedom"
Those of you who got to catch them in Port Angeles a few years back know who I'm talking about. Some of you recall the band name from their work with Paul Simon on various projects. Awesome harmonies and amazing rhythms that truly have to be appreciated live.
Favorite track: "Amazing Grace/Nearer My God to Thee." Features Emmlylou Harris.
8. Soundtrack to "Godmoney"
Obscure because I've never seen the movie. Can't find it. Bought the disc because I liked most of the bands listed and took a chance. Usually when I do that — buy an album without hearing any of it — it's a disaster (see: second albums from Gin Blossoms, Candlebox, or anything Everclear has done). This one? Lots of good stuff, from Rollins Band and MxPx to Slick Shoes.
• Favorite track: "Lucky" by the Descendents.
7. Kraftwerk, "Trans-Europe Express"
A 1977 groundbreaking techno band from Germany, the first in a long line of German-influenced music in my collection. Why did I buy this? I heard them mentioned in a line from "High Fidelity," one of the best movies of all time.
• Favorite track: "Europe Endless."
6. Ninety-Pound Wuss (Self-titled)
Punk band from Port Angeles released in 1995. Heard them while living in Bremerton. Great energy. How can you not listen to a band that has a guy picking his nose on the album cover? (… awkward silence ensues…)
• Favorite track: "Responsibility."
5. Mike Barnet, "Bourgeois Backlash"
Barnet is a friend from high school (Central Kitsap) who has done some great guitar-rooted albums; see "The Art of Drowning" and "Live at Fierro's." A frequenter of the Bremerton and Port Townsend music scenes for a time, he went totally techno while keeping the folk foundation here … great stuff, but a departure if you've heard his other stuff.
• Favorite track: "Rescue Dogs."
4. Fettes Brot, "An Tagen wie diesen"
How did I end up with this German rap/punk CD? Not really sure. My stepdaughter Chelsea spent a year there on a student exchange, so I probably picked it up there. The band name means "Fat Bread." The album means "On Days Like This." It's actually a four-song extended single release.
• Favorite track: "Was In Der Zeitung Steht" ("What's In the News")
3. On a Bad Trip, "Angry Kids"
The third in my German album triumvirate. It was made by this kid Eike, one of Chelsea's friends, who plays in a hardcore German punk band. They sing in English, although I'm not sure all of them understand what they are singing. One thing they do understand? Cursing.
• Favorite track: Still looking for one. OK, maybe "Meat Free Youth."
2. Monsters of Rap (compilation)
Sir Mix-A-Lot. Young MC. Tone Loc. C+C Music Factory. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. If it's a cheesy 1990s rap song, this album has GOT IT!! Yep, I'm a product of those lame days. Ugh.
• Favorite track: "Scenario," A Tribe Called Quest
1. Wesley Willis, "Fabian Road Warrior"
If you've never heard of the late, not-so-great Wesley Willis, well … consider yourselves lucky. Willis was a Chicago-based "artist" who despite being diagnosed a chronic schizophrenic developed a cult following for years. The dude used this simple synthesizer and sang simple, obscure songs about basically nothing, peppering them with obscenity and randomness.
He fronted a punk band for a while but was, um, at the top of his game as a solo artist. He released like 50 albums before he died in 2003 at the age of 40 after a bout with leukemia.
Why did I hold on to this album? I have no idea.
• Favorite track: "Shoot My Jam Session Down."
Wow. That was painful. Anyone else got a top-10 obscure album list out there? Top five? Top two?
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