Crab Season

We are very spoiled in the Pacific Northwest to be able to catch and buy fresh local crab. My favorite is Dungeness crab. I have fond memories of catching, cooking and especially eating fresh crab. When I was a teenager we lived on the Oregon Coast and my mom would boil crab outside in our backyard in her large canning pot. We would sit around our picnic table for hours picking crab out of the shells and eat crab until we almost got sick. So yummy!

One of my favorite memories about crab fishing is the boat trip that our family took three years ago to the San Juan Islands. We won a crab pot and all the accessories in Langley on the way up to the islands (click here to see more). After winning the crab pot all we could think about was how good the fresh crab was going to taste when we caught them. When we finally got to Sucia Island to go crabbing we had no problem catching the crabs, however, our stove wouldn't work. We had to throw all the crabs back in the water except for one, because my husband was determined to cook at least one crab. He put it on the barbeque and an hour and a half later we had one shriveled-up overcooked crab. Not what we were dreaming about, but we pretended that it tasted good as we had it with our backup plan of peanut butter sandwiches (click here to see more)!

Crabbin'

Made with natural green Long Leaf pine needles, brown artificial sinew, lapis chip beads and a beautiful blue crab pottery base made by Pamela Zimmerman.

Dungeness

Made with natural green Long Leaf pine needles, light blue and orange Irish waxed linen thread, silver crab beads and a beautiful 3-D crab pottery base made by Pamela Zimmerman.

Enjoy!