Crab Fingers

Place ketchup, lemon juice and horseradish in bowl and mix. Arrange crab fingers around plate, place mixture (cocktail sauce) in center

Picnic Caesar Salad

In a large bowl place oil, lemon juice and garlic, press garlic into bowl with a wooden spoon to distribute. Whisk ingredients together. Cut baguette into large wedges, spray with PAM and place in a 350-degree oven for 4 minutes or until gold brown. Place full lettuce leaves in bowl on top of dressing. When you are ready to serve, toss salad and add romano and toss again and add croutons.


This is great to eat with your hands at a picnic, no utensils needed.

Chef Rick tells me he must have anchovies, if your wish, add four anchovy filets to the bowl with the oil, garlic and lemon.

Crab Boil

This looks intimidating at first blush, all the real work is gathering the ingredients, cooking it is easy. You will want to eat this outside, cover table with brown butcher's paper, this makes cleanup easy. Use paper napkins, no utensils, your hands are fine and everyone gets into it. Use plastic cups for the butter. To clean up simply fold the paper and discard.
You will need a large, turkey fryer kit with a basket; you can rent them at the rental store.

Fill turkey fryer with basket with 5 gallons of water; add salt, bay seasoning, peppercorns, dry crab boil packages and heat to the boil, covered. Taste for salt, should taste like the sea. Add the vegetables, sausage cut into small pieces, lemons halved (reserve 5 for serving) and garlic, also halved, cover and bring back to the boil.
Add the lobster, wait 2 minutes and add the monkfish, clams and mussels. Wait two more minutes and add the shrimp and crayfish and stir.
Note: If you can only find cooked crayfish use them.

Cover pot, turn off heat and let steep for 20 minutes.

Serving: Here is the exciting part. Have everyone stand back from the table. Remove basket with boil from pot, drain well over pot. Now you want to throw or pitch or place, for the weak of heart, the contents evenly onto the table. Place about 2 ounces of melted butter in plastic cups, place in front of everyone along with the remaining lemons, quartered. Enjoy!

Pecan Bars

Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Combine flour and sugar in bowl. Cut in butter until a coarse crumb.
Press dough into bottom of a lightly greased 13 X 9 pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Mix egg, milk and vanilla, stir in heathbar bits and pecans. Spread mixture over crust. Bake an additional 25 minutes.

Cool and cut into bars.

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