Tuna, Crab and Abe Lincoln
- May 22
- 5 min read
Hey Y'all, We sold out of tacos last Saturday so we are coming in fully stocked this Saturday. Starting at 11:00 we will be grilling our mahi tacos and selling them for $8 each or 2 for $10. They come with our Baja Beans and Cilantro Lime Rice and lots of other fixins. |
Mahi Tacos with Slow Cooked Baja Black Beans and Cilantro Lime Rice
Complete Meal Kit for 2, this take home kit is on the table in 15 minutes with ready-to cook fresh marinated mahi, house-made Slow-Cooked Baja Black Beans, C…
$48.00
Catch Customers Can Cook! Depending on what part of the south you are from, soft shell crabs could have been your family's traditional Memorial Day weekend star. Here are Gretchen's soft shells: |
"I followed the recipe you shared from the gorgeous cookbook and they were awesome!"
This cook book is on the table in my store. Take a look if you want to see the recipe.
From Bo:
Do you think you could have gone to a little more trouble for Mother's Day, Bo? Was it enough to contact the chef at her favorite restaurant for recipes and pairing a different wine with each course? Sourcing her favorite dessert? Really? |
Crab wasn't the only thing on the menu:
Eddie Snagged Some Stunning Snapper (say that three times fast) at the Catch and made this: |
Thanks for the snapper my friend! Here is our Kyoto style ngiri balls - in Japan they taught us to put a piece of cling wrap in your left hand, layer fish, wasabi, rice, then roll it up in a tight ball. Works every time.
Beautiful fish,
Very grateful for you.
Eddie
I am grateful for you too Eddie and all my customers who share their culinary successes with us. |
A Family Recipe Michelle sent me this recipe from her Maryland mother-in-law for crabcakes. I suggest you print this, drizzle it with oil and crab, crinkle it up a little and stuff it into an old cookbook making this your own family recipe. I love the way it is written so I didn't change a thing. Just imagine an older woman looking out her window at the Chesapeake and giving you advice on how to make a crab cake:
Maryland Crab Cakes
1 pound crab meat.....I use jumbo lump Sister-in-law just uses lump. In separate bowl mix together--- About 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise (Hellmans or Dukes) About a half a tsp. of yellow mustard (I just do a little squirt) 1 egg beaten Parsley flakes ----for a little green color....about 2 tsps. 3 saltines that I put in a bag and crush with a rollling pin 1 tsp. old bay. Mix together. Add to crab meat and very, very gently, using your hands, mix together. Try to keep from breaking lumps. You can make crabcakes whatever size you like. I make two per pound (they are whoppers). Gently shape and put on round water crackers on the lightly sprayed baking sheet (sitting on cracker allows easier lift from sheet after broiling)..... Best to let sit in fridge for several hours before broiling. Helps them stick together..... Before broiling brush top of crabcake with melted butter. Sprinkle old bay on top of the crabcakes at this point. (sister-in-law uses the old bay here).....think I will omit inside next time too and just use on top. Broil until Golden. Remove and enjoy. Medium size probably takes about 10-15 min.....large takes longer.... 20-25 min I broil mine a pretty long time because they are so big and need to heat inside. But if you make them smaller, it doesn't take too long.... start on low broil and switch to high at end to get them golden on top I make my crabcakes shaped more like balls. But a lot of people make patties. I use a sponge brush for butter.....you have to be delicate...... Everyone in Maryland makes them a little differently. My sister-in-law adds red pepper flakes and a little bit of horseradish (they like spicy)....... |
Free Wine Tasting - Join us Saturday 3:00-5:00 Domaine de Piaugier Sablet Blanc, 2024 - $28.99 Southern Rhone Valley, France This wine is made of Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Roussanne, and Marsanne. The grapes are sourced from 12.5 hectares of vines within the Sablet appellation from vines 25 years in age, all farmed organically. The wine has delicate acidity with slightly creamy and tropical fruit notes.
Lemelson Vineyards Dry Riesling, 2024 - $28.49 Dundee Hills, OR The 2023 Riesling was made from grapes sourced from Meyer Vineyard in the Dundee Hills AVA. To help maximize aromatic intensity and complexity, the wine was fermented in stainless steel barrels. The finished wine was aged on the lees for 6 months with occasional stirring. The results are pineapple, grapefruit, and Amalfi lemon fruit framed by white flower and river rock aromatics. Although fermented to near dryness, the palate is rich, juicy, long and mineral with excellent natural acidity.
Ringbolt Cabernet Sauvignon - Margaret River, 2021 - $27.79 Western Australia Wine Spectator - 92 Reviewed in October, 2023, mentioned; " A few more years in the bottle should make it even better". A bold crimson red in color with magenta hues. The nose has rich aromas of violets, black cherries and mulberries with hints of cassis and forest-floor characters. The wine opens with the pretty floral characters of the nose and a rich blackberry edge before progressing to the mocha oak mid palate and finishing with succulent tannins that continue the experience long after the wine has left your mouth. |
This Week's Special Yellowfin Tuna 6 oz. $12.95 Tuna grilled, tuna raw, tuna poke, tuna roll, tuna melt, tuna salad, tuna seared, tuna patties, tuna bowls, tuna, tuna, tunalicious... |
In Our Cases |
Fish Black Drum Whole Branzino Cod - Icelandic Red Grouper Pacific Halibut Mahi Monkfish Petrale Sole Rainbow Trout Sable (Black Cod) Chilean Sea Bass Red Snapper Steelhead Trout Striped Bass Swordfish Yellowfin Tuna Verlasso Salmon Wild King Salmon Walleye | Shellfish Soft Shell Crabs Wild Georgia Shrimp Littleneck Clams Black Mussels Blackberry Oysters Little Bitches Oysters Blue Point Oysters James River Oysters 10/20 ct. Sea Scallops
Caviar Kaluga Caviar Golden Osetra Caviar Classic Osetra Caviar Siberian Beluga Caviar Siberia Caviar |
And Finally, Memorial Day, formerly Decoration Day, was created to encourage decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. Later it became a national day of rememberance of all who died serving our country during war. Memorial Day gives me a chance to quote from my favorite speech by a politican, President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I think I write this every Memorial Day but I don't care because it matters:
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Powerful words to consider as we think about the awful sacrifices made for the freedoms we have. |
Enjoy your weekend.
Blessings, Kathleen |
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