I gave my girl crabs cakes

I made crab cakes the other night and they were so deli­cious I decided to name them. Here’s the recipe for “I gave my girl crabs cake”:

Ingre­di­ents:

1 pound Blue crab meat or other lump crab meat
6 tbls panko bread crumbs
1 egg beaten
2 tbsp may­on­naise
1 tsp mus­tard
1/4 tsp Worces­ter­shire
1/2 tsp Old Bay sea­son­ing
2 strips of bacon
1 tbsp shal­lots finely minced
6 1“x.5“x.25″ slices of Gruyère (cheese)
salt to taste

Prepa­ra­tion:

1. Care­fully check the crab meat for any car­ti­lage. Put meat in a bowl and set it aside.

2. Ren­der bacon in a fry­ing pan over low heat until you get about 2 tbsp of bacon fat. Set aside fat for later. Chop up bacon in to lit­tle bits.

3. Except for the cheese, mix the bacon bits with all the other ingre­di­ents. Gen­tly fold in the crab. Only mix enough to com­bine the ingre­di­ents. You don’t want to break up the crab into fine shreds.

4. Shape into 6 crab cakes and insert the slice of Gruyère into the mid­dle of the cake.

5. Refrig­er­ate for at least 1 hour so that the cakes don’t fall apart dur­ing cook­ing. This is what they looked like after an hour in the fridge.

I gave my girl crabs cakes (raw)

6. Heat the bacon fat in a non-stick fry­ing pan. Sauté until golden brown on each side. This will only take about 3–5 min­utes per side.

I gave my girl crabs cakes (cooking)

7. Gar­nish with pars­ley and serve.

If you haven’t heard by now, there’s a drink called the Gal­va­tron.

The recipe:

1 shot Maker’s Mark
1 shot Patron
1 shot Bac­ardi 151

With 151 being almost dou­ble the proof, at a stag­ger­ing 151, of the other ingre­di­ents which hover around 80, the Gal­va­tron is like 4 shots in one drink. It’s tastes like shit but there seems to be a fol­low­ing gath­er­ing momen­tum behind it. It most likely has to do with Lumpee Le’s hit YouTube song aptly named Gal­va­tron.

The cre­ative peo­ple behind the song and the drink have even made a web­site pro­mot­ing the Gal­va­tron. Check them out and drop them a com­ment. There they cham­pion the  slo­gan, “Drink 3 and Win”. Win…? …win what? …a crip­pled liver that’s been embalmed through alco­hol. Fun­nily enough, the name of the sec­ond part of the three part Gal­va­tron song set is “My liver hates me”. It seem that since Lumpee came out with the  first song, he can’t go out at night with­out peo­ple rec­og­niz­ing him and inevitably buy­ing him a Gal­va­tron. He some­times gets 20 offers a night. In song 2 he laments ever com­ing up with the songs and pleads with peo­ple who rec­og­nize him at clubs to buy him water instead. I give mad props to those who have gone on to fin­ish 3 in a night. The web­site even has a Wall of Fame cel­e­brat­ing those that have fin­ished 3 or more. I’m sure where ever you are, if you send them a video drink­ing 3, they’d throw you up there on that wall. There’s a new show on the food net­work call Man v. Food star­ring Adam Rich­man. I’d like to see his ass try and fin­ish 3.

I didn’t real­ize how pro­lific the Gal­va­tron was until I got a drunk call last Fri­day night around 2am from an old col­lege friend liv­ing out in New York. Drunk as hell and still out at the bars, she called to ask me what the hell was in one. She’d heard from a friend in Nashville who saw the YouTube video and told her to try the drink. Man …nation­wide. Good stuff Gal­va­tron Crew.

WARNING: DRINK RESPONSIBLY

On Decem­ber 26 2008, a vis­it­ing A List pro­moter from San Fran­cisco drank an unver­i­fied num­ber of Gal­va­trons, def­i­nitely more than 3, and trag­i­cally died the next morn­ing. We can spec­u­late on whether or not  his untimely death was due to alco­hol poi­son­ing but I’d rather not go there. Just please peo­ple, drink responsibly.