Went out friday night with some BWE members hooping and fishing out of newport/ CDM. Fishing and bugging was slow, no lobster what so ever but I pulled up one of those big ugly spider/ sheep crab (they seem to use the names interchangeably.)
It looked like something out of my nightmares but I'll be damned if I was going home skunked.
Boiled him up (that's a 12" pizza pan)
then spent about AN HOUR extracting the meat (with a hammer, vice grips and a chopstick to poke the meat out)
Then mixed up some crab cakes, the best crab cakes I've ever had (saffron really set it off.)
A lot of work, but would have made an awesome valentines dinner had I had one this year. So, practice for the next time I nab an ugly crab and need to cook some girls pants off.