Winner of Diablo's Crab Trivia Contest on Facebook

A winner has been selected from our exclusive Crab Trivia Contest on Facebook. Siv Ricketts won dinner for two at the Walnut Creek Yacht Club!

 
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Below are a few of our favorite responses to the bonus question, "What's your favorite memory of eating crab and the best way to eat it? Feel free to share your memories or recipes by commenting below.

 

Question:

What’s your favorite memory of eating crab and the best way to eat it?”
 

Answers:

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Over a 3-year period while in high school, I worked at a seafood market called Fisherman's Market in Alameda (next to the Fruitvale Bridge). On weekends, I would accompany the owner, John Rosa, to San Francisco to pick up several crates of live Dungeness crabs. We'd bring them back to the store were we had a huge outdoor crab pot. I would be responsible for the boiling of the crabs. I've cleaned and cracked literally thousands of pounds of crab throughout my time at the market. My favorite memory is Christmas Eve — probably the biggest day of the year for cracked crab sales. I had no idea how many families celebrated Christmas Eve with fresh cracked crab. For those three years (and several years after), I would bring home enough crab for the family. They all thought it was cool that a kid was popping for a holiday dinner … and my cat would love me when I got home. Great memories!

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Christmas Eve, every year! Our tradition is to have cracked crab at our house. The family comes over — mom, grandma, brothers, sisters, etc. We all sit down to cracked crab. We make it a bit different though — we pre-crack it, season one or two with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and sauté it, then serve it hot. We do the same with one or two, but use garlic, salt, and butter. We serve the crab with a huge bowl of Caesar salad, a few baguettes of fresh, hot French bread, some wonderful wine and we are set! Once the crab is done and the family is cleaned up, we settle down into the living room for ONE present … it's just so much fun. It's beginning to feel a LOT like Christmas!!!

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I love getting a bunch of friends together at my house for roasted garlic crab, fresh Dungeness, of course. And just making a huge mess of my kitchen with the butter, and the garlic, and the crab! Good crab, good wine and good friends!

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The first time I really fell in love with crab was at a little restaurant in Victoria, British Columbia. It was just a whole new experience in food at the moment, and the best way to eat it … warm with melted butter. Mmmmm!

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My favorite memory was my grandfather buying me a cooked crab at our favorite Chinese restaurant with garlic and scallions every Sunday during crab season. The waiter couldn't wait for me to get there and ask me before I was even seated if I wanted a crab for lunch.

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At my mother's home steamed and fresh out of the pot with our hands.

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Christmas Eve dinner, fingers drenched in butter with chunks of luscious crabmeat headed to my awaiting senses.

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A crab feed while on vacation in the North East — we were hitting crabs with a small mallet. The tables were covered with butcher paper. We ate the crab right out of the shell and dunked in hot butter. Yum!

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Favorite memory is eating crab cakes from a small roadside diner in Delaware on our first trip to the East Coast. Marvelous! The best way to eat it is steamed, hot, cold in salad, in cocktails, with your fingers, as crab cakes, as crab sandwiches or any way you can get it! Yum! Yum!

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For Chef Kevin Weinberg's Dungeness Crab recipes, click HERE

To share your own memories of eating crab or your favorite crab recipes, comment below.

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