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'crabby patties' for my son's 8th birthday

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    Posted: 03 May 2010 at 14:08
my youngest son's 8th birthday was last week, and he is lately into the whole spongebob squarepants thing. my wife even made a spongebob-shaped pineapple cake for him, and we served it with pineapple sherbert and pineapple pop. i myself am not a big fan of ol' spongebob, but i did find it an interesting journey into some culinary possibilities.
 
as part of the birthday dinner (he wanted breakfast for dinner, so we made pancakes, bacon, eggs and sausage - and yep, we put pineapple and banana in the pancakes!), i prepared appetizers of what i called "crabby patties," using john's recipe for "crabbies" that must come from the delmarva peninsula. here's what wiki has to say about that area:
 
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The Delmarva Peninsula is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia. The peninsula is almost 180 by 60 miles (300 by 100 km), and is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay on the west, and the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, and Atlantic Ocean on the east.

The northern isthmus of the peninsula is transected by the sea-level Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, so the peninsula could be considered to be an island. Several bridges cross the canal, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel join the peninsula to mainland Maryland and Virginia, respectively. Another point of access is Lewes, Delaware, reachable by ferry from Cape May, New Jersey.

Dover, Delaware's capital city, is the peninsula's largest city by population but the main commercial area is Salisbury, Maryland, near its center. Including all offshore islands (the largest of which is Kent Island in Maryland), the total land area south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal is 5,454 sq mi (14,127 km²). At the 2000 census the total population was 681,030, giving an average population density of 124.86 persons/sq mi (48.2 persons/km²).

Roughly south of Wilmington, Delaware, is the fall line, a geographic borderland where the Piedmont region transitions into the coastal plain, a flat and sandy area with very few or no hills.

Origin of the name

Delmarva is a portmanteau word formed from the names of the states that occupy it: Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (abbreviated VA). The earliest uses of the term appear to have been commercial—for example, the Delmarva Heat, Light, and Refrigerating Corp. of Chincoteague, Virginia, was in existence by 1913[1]—but general use of the term did not occur until the 1920s.[2]

for an excellent read on this beautiful and historic region of our country, i recommend james michener's book, chesapeake. even though it is a work of fiction, i believe it does a very good job of capturing the spirit of that area and putting into a rich patchwork of history, geography and the culture of the region, which reaches back long before our founding as a nation.
 
i prepared the crabby patties exactly according to john's instructions, the only difference being that i did not have those wonderful-looking home-made sourdough rolls, and i used old bay seasoning (another trademark of the delmarva peninsula) rather than cajun seasoning. the rolls i did use were almost as good - i went to the bakery section of a local grocery and bought some ciabatta rolls!
 
during preparation, i did as suggested and made sure to drain and rinse the crabmeat thoroughly. i also topped with shredded cheddar half-way through heating undere the broiler. here i did make one fatal mistake: the only cheddar i had on hand was a very greasy and oily, inferior store-brand (IGA) of cheese that i feared would not do well under the broiler. unfortunately, i was right - instead of getting nice and toasty-brown, the cheese got oily and bubbly and hard, but i gotta admit, it still tasted good!
 
here's a shot of the crabby patties coming out of the oven:
 
 
and here's a picture of them cut and ready to serve:
 
 
in spite of the cheese SNAFU, they tasted great and we enjoyed them very much ~ the ciabatta rolls worked very well, both in terms of texture and flavour, and the crabby goodness was enhanced and amplified by the buttery, old english spread. they made a great spongebob-themed appetizer for supper and there were NO leftovers!
 
give these little devils a shot and see for yourself!
 
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Yum! Man those look outstanding! Great job on the crabbies and excellent idea using ciabatta bread...very well done. Loved your background on the region, excellent snapshot of a beautiful part of the country. Great post and good eatin's too!
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