1 crusty crabcake please!

Oh, boy... I completely forgot about blogging about my attempt to make crabcakes. Me and Clif, a while back, went to the Chart House for dinner. We had the most amazing crabcake (yes... we shared 1- crabcake) for an appetizer. After this encounter I decided I would try to make some. How hard could it be? It's just crabmeat, seasoning and oil.

First, I had to decide what type of crab to purchase. I hate imitation crabmeat, so that was out. Was I really going to buy some legs and then remove the meat.... HELL TO THE NAH! So the next best thing was to by the REAL meat. At Bristol Farms they had a good selection, and I ended up buying Blue Star lump crab meat. I also pikced up some shrimp to add into the cakes.

Add some seasoning, mayo, mustard.... and... "Houston, we have crabcakes!"


I even made a homemade sauce to go with it. The sauce was made of mayo, mustard, lemon juice and some of the same seasoning I used in the crabcakes.

Friday (10/19) update:

Friday was a pretty ok day. Nothing to exciting happened during the day.
Wake up.
Get kids ready for school.
Visit properties.
Pick kids up from school.
Come home and try to unwind.

Clif came home early from work (early being 5p) and was in a playful mood.
We decided to take the kids bowling for a night of fun.
First up, Gable House Bowl. This is always a fun place to go and bowl. Rock N Glow bowl is uber-cool with really low lights, loud music and lots of booz :). As great as it is, it's not the most ideal place to take kids on a Friday night, because the lanes fill up pretty quickly (which is why we ended up at another place).

Palos Verdes bowl offered what Gable didn't... a lane to bowl on. Now, granted every worker in this place was over 60 years old, which mean just getting through the door was a task. Can you imagine what it's like to wait on your drinks, food, etc. when a 75 year old waitress has to carry everything? Or if your ball gets stuck in the (warped) bumpers, how long it takes a 81 year old man to go and retrieve it? Let's just say it was a long night (and not because we played a lot of games).

Bowling came to an end when Ryann got a very bad nose bleed. Now, in the past my daughter use to go booger hunting 'causing these episodes. I think she's outgrown this hobby, so I truly do not know what caused the sudden burst of blood from her nose. All I know is I looked up, and she had her hand cupped under her nose catching what was coming out. We made a mad dash to the bathroom (I tried to be as careful as possible not to get blood anywhere). 10 minutes later we were able to leave the bathroom and head home. I swear I was ready to head straight to the ER.

Ok Wan... you win

Ok, so Wan and the cutest Monkey ever have convinced me to NOT BLOG & DRIVE!
(it had so much potential too! - oh well)

Because of this decision, and being extremely busy all week long, I haven't been able to blog like I've wanted. Man, do I have some catching up to do. Nothing too exciting, just the normal stuff in the Fabulous Life of I[dot]J

Bloggin' while drivin'

So, you know how they have those commercials with people putting on make-up while driving, shaving and even putting on clothes while driving? Well, I've upped the anty on things. I got this cool new Sprint Aircard that allows me to have access to the internet, anywhere (a middle finger to those who have had this gadget for a while now).

Can you imagine what I can blog about at the drop of a dime now? I mean, seriously, being able to blog about WHATEVER while WHATEVER is going on is UBER COOL (to me).

ciao

Week 6 - FF update

Man, just when I was on a winning streak, the NFL had to go and make all of my starters participate in a BYE week. I couldn't believe it. I was running around at the last minute (literally at 9:50a and 1:10p) trying to pick up players to help me win this week.

I'm just going to chalk this one up to experience I guess.

BLT... it's what's for dinner!

So, I didn't really feel like preparing some big, elaborate meal for dinner tonight. While watching Raye's 3:00 pm baseball game, I flipping through one of those supermarket, quick meal fixing magazine. Inside the magazine was an article about a sandwich I use to love a lot, a B-L-T. I made it with sourdough bread and added in a few slices of avocado for some added flavor. I also baked up some onion rings for a little crunch. The sandwich turned out nice, and was a welcomed change said Clif.

Chuga-Chuga Choo-Choo baby

So while I'm doin my thang in the kitchen, my kids find anyway possible to keep Chris, and themselves occupied. On this night they played train with Chris inside of our laundry baskets, while Raye decided he wanted to make an apple, grape, orange, carrots and lettuce salad.