Day 17 – April 15

The tax man cometh, although you have another day since it falls on a weekend.  Today’s mission, find a nut cracker as we are going to have Stone Crab claws for dinner tonight.   (We did not have that in our inventory.)  Beth is off to yoga again and I am off to Kmart in search of the nut cracker.  No luck in Kmart, so I end up in Publix.  I ask one of the assistants, and she says she does not think they carry them, but I ask where the utensils are kept, and voila a nutcracker with two picks.  So with nut cracker and a Sunday paper, I meet Beth for our walk to the seafood market.  We walk in and they have 4 selections of Stone Crab, Jumbo, Large, Select, and Medium.  No Jumbo and the lady at the counter recommends the Select.  A gentlemen says do forget the mustard sauce, and we take that also. 

After putting dinner in the fridge, we motor off to the beach again, even though the winds are still gusting over 20 knots.  We find a palm tree to put our chairs under for shade as no umbrella today, unless I want to chase it down the beach.  The beach is busy, as it is a Sunday, volleyball, music from groups picnicking, jet skis, etc.  We sit and read for a while and go for another walk along the shore.  We return and shower off the beach.

I start cooking rice to go along with the crab claws.  Beth suggests that we have a few claws as an appetizer.  Now I understand why they are called Stone Crab, besides looking like a rock, they do not give up their meat very easily.  The joints were easy to get the meat out, but the claws were a bit tougher.  I tried cracking like a lobster claw, but ended up hitting them with the cracker.  That worked, however, by the time the rice was ready we had eaten all of the crab.  It was good and sauce went well with the crab, but we both agreed that we liked the Maryland crab the best.