Memorial Day 2011

My three faithful readers may recall that in my May Moments posting, I wished that my boys would put some crab traps in the water and bring home a mess of stone crab claws (By the way 1 mess = 7 dozen). We had such a great meal last year when Davis caught stone crabs, and I've been hoping for more of the same.

Well, my wish came true.


All last week, Davis, Ben, and Stephen collaborated in catching the stone crabs, herding them on the dock, and removing one claw from each (By the way, that doesn't hurt the crabs a bit. In fact, they like it. That extra claw can be a real pain in the behind sometimes.). And for an extra surprise, Ben, Davis, and Bob also did some fishing off the dock on the Back River and caught eleven flounder. So last night, Bob and Tracy invited all of us to their Tybee summer rental, where we boiled said claws, fried said flounder and feasted on same.

Rubber mallets are the tool of choice when digging into those tasty morsels of crustacean meat. One person expert at pounding on crab claws is Kelley Remler (read more about Kelley in the posting below). She showed us all how it's done. Stephen, on the other hand, is the expert at scoring flounder, then frying them up until their perfectly crispy. The rest of us, of course, are experts at eating.

Here's to more of that this summer!