On my list of favourite things to eat are crab cakes. That salty meaty flavour, served on sandwich or alone with an aioli Yum! There's something about it that touches my heart - yes food equals love to me!
On my 2011 top ten eats is this crab cake sandwich I had at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's market in San Francisco. Crab cake, lettuce, tomato on a fresh toasted sourdough baguette. It was heavenly one hand eating on a Saturday morning.
One of my favourite brunch spots in New York Ze Cafe serves a combination of a perfectly poached egg and a crab cake. That burst egg yolk and the slightly salty sea tasting crab meat is a winner - sublime! Ze Cafe crab cake served with a perfectly poached egg and hollandaise sauce on spinach.
One thing I
don’t get is why I can never find crab cakes in Jozi and dare I say
South Africa. I mean we have an abundance of fishcakes especially the salmon
variety. Given that Mozambican crabs aren’t hard to find I just don’t understand
why restaurants aren’t serving up crab cakes.
So for
now I look forward to my next trip to the US where crab cakes are available in
abundance. If you know
of a place that serves them in Jozi, do let me know.
Starting the crab cake revolution!
Finally, San Francisco is being unveiled as I have been waiting for a while and is does not disappoint!
ReplyDeleteYou are spot on about crab cakes ....and I hope someone is reading, or should I say listening...?!