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I'm waiting to post a full trip report of our visit to Edmonton and the Canadian Rockies when we have all our pictures loaded, but I promised ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
therealjae that I would not further delay posting about our adventures in cream of crab.
When she visited Baltimore, we took her to a French-Asian restaurant called the Purple Orchid. Little did any of us know that the cup of cream of crab soup she ordered would change her life forever... but in fact she ended up with a bit of an obsession and a passionate longing for more.curiousangel and I debated whether it would be possible for us to pack an order of cream of crab soup in ice and smuggle it through Canadian customs when we visited. I decided that it would be better to call the restaurant and beg for the recipe. Surprisingly enough, the chef was willing to dictate the instructions to me over the phone.
He began with "cream of crab soup, very easy." And, in broken English, he described a complicated yet vague set of procedures and ingredients. It was pretty clear that he doesn't typically make this soup in small batches, and has never seen a written recipe for it in his life.therealjae and I decided to do our best to decode the recipe and make the soup. I researched some other cream of crab soup recipes online, trying to flesh out the instructions, but most of them don't start with whole crabs so it was a bit difficult to generalize.
We managed it, though. ( here's what we did. )
therealjae that I would not further delay posting about our adventures in cream of crab.When she visited Baltimore, we took her to a French-Asian restaurant called the Purple Orchid. Little did any of us know that the cup of cream of crab soup she ordered would change her life forever... but in fact she ended up with a bit of an obsession and a passionate longing for more.
curiousangel and I debated whether it would be possible for us to pack an order of cream of crab soup in ice and smuggle it through Canadian customs when we visited. I decided that it would be better to call the restaurant and beg for the recipe. Surprisingly enough, the chef was willing to dictate the instructions to me over the phone. He began with "cream of crab soup, very easy." And, in broken English, he described a complicated yet vague set of procedures and ingredients. It was pretty clear that he doesn't typically make this soup in small batches, and has never seen a written recipe for it in his life.
therealjae and I decided to do our best to decode the recipe and make the soup. I researched some other cream of crab soup recipes online, trying to flesh out the instructions, but most of them don't start with whole crabs so it was a bit difficult to generalize.We managed it, though. ( here's what we did. )
