Posted on 09/01/2019 3:53:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
When we have an office party, one of my co-workers brings the most excellent ‘Seafood Salad’. He refuses to give the recipe, but it has crab, shrimp, pasta and that ‘Krab with a K’ stuff. I’m pretty sure that it also has dill and Old Bay.
I’ve been trying to find a low-carb or Keto version of this that uses only REAL crabmeat and shrimp, and I’m not finding one that seems similar but has no sugar or pasta, but does have the other ingredients that I detect. If anyone has one, please post! My husband is back on the Keto thing, and I want to find seafood recipes that work with it – since I’m not crazy about consuming as much meat as he is.
While searching, I did find this recipe on the ‘Ruled Me’ keto website for 'Crabcake-Stuffed Mushrooms’, which looks wonderful. (If you don’t have access to almond meal for the topping – which I’m assuming is used to simulate a sort of ‘bread-crumb’ topping without the carbs – this would probably be just as good without it; and if you’re not doing low-carb or keto strictly, just use some very fine bread crumbs - a little isn't going to mess with your carb count that much :-)
This is a great website for Low-Carb and Keto with lots of resources besides just recipes:
https://www.ruled.me/crab-cake-stuffed-mushrooms/
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I mentioned previously that a new Lidl store opened near us recently, and we are really enjoying it. We think we are saving a lot of money on certain items - fresh produce, meat and poultry, milk, eggs - but they also have some really nice products that seem exclusive to them.
The 'Duo Flutes' pictured above are like puff pastry sticks, and come in several flavors - my favorites are the Cheese ones. These, alone with drinks or along with your favorite dip recipe, will be a hit.
Also, their own brand of Hummus is really good - we most recently tried the super-spicy one, and it's great and very different from the ones we find elsewhere, which all seem to be predictably heavy with cumin.
And, they have wonderful prices for fresh-cut flowers. Since Lidl, my desk at work always has beautiful fresh flowers, for about $3.00 per week (half of what I'd pay at the supermarket for an even smaller bunch of lilies.) If you have a Lidl in your area, check it out.
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Summer has always been my favorite season, and August my favorite month; but even so, I've always been exhilarated by the coming of Fall. This year, for some reason, not so much - I want more Summer! But I happened to find this video recently - a little bit of Winter/Holiday imagery, that helps me to look forward with some enthusiasm to Autumn and Winter, and gets me started on plans for the holidays:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mbc_Sc454E
-JT
This Month: Seafood Salad, Stuffed Mushrooms, Keto – and looking forward to the next season.
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-JT
Have you checked the “Pow-wow Chow Cookbook?”
I understand it has some treasured Cherokee crab recipes.
BUMP for good food!
Real crabmeat is wonderful (I live in the Seattle area); but, be aware that crabmeat needs to be kept chilled. It goes bad very quickly if not kept chilled.
“...a new Lidl store opened near us...”
Is that in the same vein as an ALDI? Our ALDI stores in Wisconsin ROCK and just keep getting better and better! :)
I fed my ‘tribe’ of three adults and three teen boys and stayed within my grocery budget for many a year thanks to them.
The boys knew to NEVER touch ‘Mom’s ALDI Quarter’ that she kept in the car ashtray, LOL! (You need one to rent a shopping cart.)
I don’t know a lot about keto but I do like protein and feel better consuming that as opposed to carbs. I made a beef and noodle dish with some garden veggies recently and I used rice noodles from the Asian store. I’m assuming they are lower carb that semolina pasta and I like that they really added no flavor at all to the dish that I could detect.
Krab with a K is sorbitol soaked starch. Sorbitol might make your guests ill.
Those dup flutes, oh my! When I visit my mother in NC & I stock up at this store called Hoppy’s. They have overstock from other stores. There are cheese straws(another brand) & they look exactly like yours. I get several boxes & ALWAYS regret not getting more. They are absolutely addictive.
Those crab cakes.....mmmmmmm.
Happy before Labor Day!
Sorry, I think those are mushrooms. I’d eat them all ; )
I...don’t think I’m interested in that cookbook.
(However, my high-school boyfriend was a genuine Cherokee - a very patriotic and all-American one. I also knew a very dear man much later, who was also of Cherokee descent. (The latter was an ACLU lawyer who quit because he was so mad about Roe v. Wade and the part that the ACLU had played in its culmination.)
Troll somebody else. This is a Cooking Thread, and we try to leave overt politics and controversy out of it. :-)
Just scored a pressure cooker/smoker. Good eats on the way.
We will never get an Aldi, but they are making the Kroger much bigger. I love Aldi. I love your quarter hideout!
Good luck finding the recipe. Walmart used to sell the best Krab salad with a K. I’ve looked for years and never found the right one. Krab with a K has a lot of carbs.
Aldi’s ‘was’ my primary grocery store but in the last few months, their prices have increased substantially (30-50%) on many products. Now, the Walmart grocery is actually cheaper on some items.
Well, even though I’m near the Chesapeake, I’m not near enough to have fresh crab often. We buy pasteurized crabmeat - you find it in the refrigerated seafood section of the grocery; it has a shelf-life of about 18 months if you keep it unopened and refrigerated. Once opened, it should be consumed within two days.
I know it’s not the same as fresh - and especially what you probably get there - but it’s acceptable dope for us addicts.
Nice site, I’m going to save it and explore it. Thanks.
Aldi is more like a small-scale Costco - a sort of ‘warehouse’. Lidl is different - it’s like a neighborhood grocery, and not so big that it’s difficult to navigate for us older folks. In our experience, you can also find the same things routinely at Lidl. Our experience with Aldi is like Costco - sometimes they have something, sometimes they don’t.
We like Aldi, especially at Christmas time - they have lots of nice European holiday treats - and we got one of our best Thanksgiving turkeys there, for a very good price. But in our area, the store is so crowded on weekends and parking is horrible. The nearby Lidl is very convenient, and very friendly, and the stock is organized like a regular small grocery.
They have a lot of nice recipes. Check out the noodle-less lasagna.
That’s why I’m trying to stay away from it. Some people call it the ‘hot dog of seafood’.
(However, there are decent hot dogs out there; I haven’t found ‘Krab’ that’s acceptable, healthwise or tastewise.)
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