Crabby Pants!

It happens to the best of us.  Some call it waking up on the wrong side of the bed, but I like to call it crabby pants (it's much less subtle). I had one of those days this past week and decided to make a delicious "theme based" dinner.  I love seafood, especially crab cakes, but I always feel like they are LOADed with mayo and stuffing and just not so healthy things. So, I found a wonderful recipe on SkinnyTaste.com.  Add any type of summer/spring (cause there's no use in denying that this 80 degree weather isn't actually the start of summer in the south) bean salad and you have yourself a meal! Yum!


too easy.

 I changed the recipe around a tad bit to add more veggies and less filler. Also - you could probably add a PINCH of Old Bay for flavor, cause who doesn't love that stuff (please note I refrained from saying shit. I'm trying to start using less curse words, this should be interesting).  :)

Baked Lump Crab Cakes:

9 ounces lump crab meat

10 reduced fat Ritz crackers, crushed

1 whole egg plus 1 egg white, beaten

2 tbsp finely chopped red onions

1/2 a chopped red bell pepper

1 tbsp low fat mayonnaise

2 tbsp fresh cilantro (or parsley)

1/2 lime, juiced

salt and pepper to taste

Pre-head oven to 400. Mix all ingredients BUT the crab meat in a bowl, then fold in crab meat. Don't get aggressive or you wont have those big chunks of crab that are so good.  Form the mixture into 4 medium size cakes and put in the fridge for at least 15 minutes.

Spray a cooking sheet with spray (Spray with spray, wow, I'm waxing poetic in this post). Bake about 10 minutes on each side and serve with your salad! Booya!  I made the salad below...

Black Bean & Avocado Salad

• 1 can black beans, rinsed
• 1 avocado, in chunks
• 9 can of corn
• 1/4 cup of lime juice 
• 1/4 cup red onion, chopped
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• cilantro to taste (leftover from the crab recipe).

ENJOY - Happy Pollinated Spring ATL!

XO,
zo