Tarheel:

I remember the first time I was exposed to ss crabs was at the Dockside restaurant at Wrightsville Beach about 22 years ago.  They served ss crab on hamburger buns with home made tartar sauce.  It was a little wierd seeing those appendages hanging out of the buns.  They also served a mean bologna sandwich with mustard and chili on hamburger rolls. 

 

The wife and I were tooling around in the boat last week and decided to eat lunch there.  Enjoyed a nice grilled tuna sandwich and scallop burger..oh, and crab dip.  It was a good day on the water.

Carl

Hey Carl.  Stop by and say hello sometime.  I think there are at least four forum members here now, you, me, bluesboy, and UFObuster.

None of us are going to be coming over untill you get the liquor caninet re-stocked.

Being the naive farmer that I am can someone tell me how big these plants can get? They are growing like 1 to 2 inches per day, sometimes MORE. Already they're topping out a 42" support cone. Should I be planning on more support rigging? My neighbor who is a science instructor is very impressed with them. He says the growth rate is because I have them in a quasi greenhouse environment. They are on a glass paneled open deck and get excellent sunlight for at least 10 hours a day. No wind or bugs (yet). I'm not worried. I just like to plan ahead.

 Depends on variety, I have had a sweet 100 cherry plant reach 7 ft and probably had about 200 tomatos on it.  If you are going to get out of a large basket, get a long support pole at Lowes or HD (or if you happen to have a chunk of rebar laying around like I do, works just as well)  Once they get to that point I usually tie the plant to the rebar loosly with some surveyors plastic tape to keep it from tipping.

Wow- scored some 7 count shrimp this morning- 2lbs= 14 shrimp = 5" long monsters-heads on- almost no dark spots from being out of the water- these were swimming a few hours ago.

steamed with Phillips seafood seasoning- red pepper- vinegar-salt - pepper- beer- garlic powder- paprika

best I have ever had- rare inland in this condition- Eat your heart out tarheel.

Tomatoes here still suck- maybe next week- bought bacon in anticipation.

winchester21:

Wow- scored some 7 count shrimp this morning- 2lbs= 14 shrimp = 5" long monsters-heads on- almost no dark spots from being out of the water- these were swimming a few hours ago.

steamed with Phillips seafood seasoning- red pepper- vinegar-salt - pepper- beer- garlic powder- paprika

best I have ever had- rare inland in this condition- Eat your heart out tarheel.

Tomatoes here still suck- maybe next week- bought bacon in anticipation.

You must have had to wrestle those monsters to get them in the pot

A racoon or possum has been stealing my tomatoes.....gonna have to get my fly swatter out.

This weather has my garden in the crapper! The thing I can't figure is a house I drive by on the other side of the lake has a garden that looks like it has had sun everyday.  None ever seems to be there to ask what they are doing. My cabbage looks really good, so good the deer aet half of it.

Garden is bumming me out, bring on the sun.

I love me some spider rolls, never seen a soft crab for sale to cook at home though.

It's not raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well at least not right now.

We got 3/4" of rain a week ago and it is raining to day, this is the only rain we have had in a month with temps from 95-100 for the month.

I just finished blanching and putting 3, 1 gallon freezer bags of tomatoes to freeze, plenty more to come from the way it looks. Also breaded some sliced green tomatoes last night with some more eggplant to go with some grilled chicken. The snap beans have almost come to an end, but still making flowers so we will see.

winchester21:

Tomatoes here still suck- maybe next week- bought bacon in anticipation.

That's funny.

Like you need a reason to buy bacon...

Explanation-I know a guy who is a  partner/owner in a resturant food supply deal. He gets this bacon that is to die for. Thick slice apple cured resturant high end bacon form heck in 5 lb packages. Sometimes there is excess. I am now out. The storebought stuff is trash by comaprison- but I ain't missing out on my annual run of BLTs with fresh hierlooms. So I broke down and bought some from the market.I am really surprised that nobody is marketing any upgraded bacon in the stores.

Tarheel- that might be a squirrel eating your stuff. Something got all of mine last year and it had to be a squirrel or a racoon given the location of the plants.  One of the guys at work saw a squirrel eating his over the weekend.Get yourself a Gamo Whisper pellet rifle- gun - silencer-scope under 250.00 on the net. Critter Christmas will be cancelled- 1275 feet per second -will do the job undetected.

winchester21:

Explanation-I know a guy who is a  partner/owner in a resturant food supply deal. He gets this bacon that is to die for. Thick slice apple cured resturant high end bacon form heck in 5 lb packages. Sometimes there is excess. I am now out. The storebought stuff is trash by comaprison- but I ain't missing out on my annual run of BLTs with fresh hierlooms. So I broke down and bought some from the market.I am really surprised that nobody is marketing any upgraded bacon in the stores.

 

A few year ago we knew someone who would buy out extra stock from different companies and resell in his store but you had to buy by the case, we were able to get some bacon like you talked about but it was maple flavored. This stuff was so good when you cooked it the whole house would smell like sweet maple syrup, I have never found anything even close to that again, great bacon. Strong maple and smoke flavor not salty at all and did not shrink to nothing like regular bacon.

yep- same thing- saw apple and maple- came in like 40 or 50 pound thick brown cardboard dry ice boxes. never got any of the maple

Alegedly sold only to high end hotel resturants- little or no shrinkage

with all of the high buck food around- dont understand why nobody sells it commercially at super markets- the other stuff blows once you have tasted this.

Squirrels.....why did'nt I think of that....got a yard full of them.  Found a green tomatoe on the ground when I got home this afternoon.....more of their handiwork