The only reason I ever go to Crockett is because it’s on the way to Nacogdoches.
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My wife’s from Palestine, so we pass through Crockett every time we head up there. I’ll check this place out.
This doesn’t sound like a reason.
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Palestine is a cool little town. My wife and I spent a weekend there back in August, just a couple of days to get out of town. We enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Nice! It’s really developed some charm over the years. Hope you ate well while you were there.
I like visiting East Texas. A good friend teaches at the university there in Nac.
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We did. There are several fairly nice restaurants there. Not a ton, but some cool places. There are also a couple of nice little watering holes to grab a beer or a cocktail. It’s not a “different place every night” kind of town, but it has a nice…as you say…small town Texas charm.
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East Texas is a really relaxing drive, at least from Houston. And the area has its own uniqueness. It’s quite different than say the Hill Country. When I was 20-something, I didn’t appreciate the slower pace of East Texas, but I sure do now.
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Meanwhile, in Germany:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/travel/raccoon-meat-products-germany-scli-intl/index.html
Step up your game, East Texas.
I’m guessing you hit Pint & Barrel, which is a great one. And if you make your way back up there again, be sure to grab some breakfast tacos from La Chaparra. There’s another place folks recommend for tacos, I can’t remember the name, but it’s not as good.
The locals are fiercely loyal to Little Mexico, an old Tex-Mex joint directly across the street from La Chaparra. Ground beef and hard taco shells as far as the eye can see. As far as I can tell it’s a “Li’l Sebastian” situation where a small town falls in love with something tremendously average (charitably) and no outsider really understands why. I’ve made my peace with it. The owners are lovely and the nacho plate is reliable.
Indeed, we hit up Pint & Barrel. Had dinner at Switch Brick Oven Pizza, which was a solid pie in a nice setting. There was an Italian place we ate lunch at one day, which was…fine, and the people were totally awesome. Didn’t get breakfast tacos, sounds like a missed opportunity. The best part was no matter where we went people treated us like family.
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Arkansas is way ahead here. Our required rite of passage for all politicians is to go to the annual Gillette Coon Dinner and eat raccoon. It’s been going on 80 years.
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No wonder the Huckabees are such sourpusses.
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That’s a little above and beyond…I’ve eaten goat/calf fries (Castell and elsewhere still have an annual “Testicle Festival”) and other weird stuff, but I’m drawing the line at varmints and canines and felines and such. Ain’t no Haitian.
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They should call it The Testival Festicle.
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So I’m making Happy GF dinner tonight…I’ve got the scallops figured out…
I’ve made crab cakes (this is jumbo lump stuff) before, but was wondering if any of yall have ideas I may have not thought of yet
For the crabcakes? Or the dinner?
Crabcakes.
I was thinking panko but every recipe I look at says saltine crackers
This seems (gonna half it all) like a respectable starting point. I do think there will be some hot sauce involved
1 pound crab meat fresh – jumbo lump
1/2 red/yellow bell pepper, roasted
1 teaspoon minced galic
1 large egg
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice plus more for serving
1½ teaspoon Old Bay seasoning
1 teaspoon fresh parsley chopped
⅔ cup cracker crumbs I made mine in the food processor. About 15 saltines
Man, I haven’t had a proper crab cake since I left DC. Now you’ve got me craving one.
My two cents, the recipe looks fine (apart from the bell pepper, even if I love bell pepper). The proportions seem more like what Kara and I do when it’s just the two of us - i.e. I wouldn’t halve the recipe. Panko might give you a better crust, but saltine crackers are the better binding ingredient and also traditional. And I wouldn’t worry about the food processor. By hand or whatever’s heavy you have in the kitchen ought to work.
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