dungeness crab – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:23:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The first night https://orangette.net/2012/04/the-first-night/ https://orangette.net/2012/04/the-first-night/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/the-first-night Hi from here. I should clarify: not here exactly. These photos were taken at our dinner table, but I’m currently sitting at my desk. I would much rather be there than here. Oh well. These shots are from the first night of 2012, with our friends Ben, Bonnie, and Sam. We had wanted to go crabbing and catch our New Year’s dinner ourselves, but Ben and Brandon wound up with food poisoning on New Year’s Eve, so we decided to scale back the plan. We bought the crabs instead. We cooked them and cleaned them and heaped them in a bowl, and then we covered the table with garbage bags and set out cutting boards, crab picks, and ice cream…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2012/04/the-first-night/feed/ 78 December 24 https://orangette.net/2011/12/december-24/ https://orangette.net/2011/12/december-24/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:34:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/december-24 Whenever we spend the holidays with my relatives in northern California, we eat Dungeness crab on Christmas Eve. I can’t remember when the tradition was started, but when Brandon and I got together, I introduced him to it. He was still mostly a vegetarian then, and he’d never tasted crab, but he was curious about it – enough to grab a couple of crab legs and, however awkwardly, get himself around them. He took to it fast. This year, we spent Christmas in Seattle, on our own, and we decided to continue the Christmas Eve crab tradition, since Washington is the state that gave Dungeness crab its name. It felt fitting. Plus, Brandon announced, he had a plan: he would…

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