Jump to content

Servideo on Crabcakes, Bleach Blonde hair, and more! (UPDATE: Signs for $950K 100k overslot)


Roll Tide

Recommended Posts

I ordered crab cakes in Columbus Ohio once and I can’t recommend any more highly to never do that. They were about the size of a quarter and we’re pretty inedible.

I had some good crab cakes at Jordan Pond House in Acadia National Park in Maine a few times.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

18 hours ago, makoman said:

I grew up 5 min from G&M! Crabs and crab cakes were basically the only food my family splurged on, G&M was the best. Also been to Timbuktu a few times but didn’t know they had good crab cakes. 

To the rest of the thread, I prefer broiled but fried are good on occasion. I like to make them too but won’t win any awards and would never put the mustard in them. I love soft shells too. Hope Mr. Servideo ends up spending a long time in Baltimore and learns a thing or two about this. 

Timbuktu’s are good but they prices have skyrocketed.  The the Olive Grove which is right up the street from G&M.   They are comparable to G&M in size and lump meat but have a little more zing to them.

  • Upvote 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Boarman's Market in Highland often has some good ones in their butcher/seafood section.  Great place, this old fashioned farmers market / grocer with hand painted signs in an area of HoCo that was once all farms but is now full of neighborhoods with million dollar houses.  But Boarman's hasn't changed.

I'll swing by there on a Friday onmy way to Blacksburg for a football weekend and pick up a pound of their fresh made daily breakfast sausage for us to have at our tailgate the next day.  Got a dozen crabcakes there once and we grilled them at our tailgate the next day and they were fantastic.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Not as much down here.

Yes... probably mostly bad in Florida. Plus they tend to want pimento and other stuff in the south. I was in Georgia for a while and a pretty high profile place with several locations called Ray’s had a pretty good quality cake, but it had chopped pepper in it and served it with a garlic aioli. They had Old Bay in the kitchen so you could request it. But I don’t believe it was in their recipe. If you ever get through Atlanta look them up!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, Woody Held said:

Timbuktu’s are good but they prices have skyrocketed.  The the Olive Grove which is right up the street from G&M.   They are comparable to G&M in size and lump meat but have a little more zing to them.

I’m pretty sure they are family members as well.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

30 minutes ago, Woody Held said:

Timbuktu’s are good but they prices have skyrocketed.  The the Olive Grove which is right up the street from G&M.   They are comparable to G&M in size and lump meat but have a little more zing to them.

Dang, I’m surprised how little amount of run Jimmy’s is getting here. What do you consider expensive? My 8oz jumbo lump cake and fries ran me $22.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

32 minutes ago, CarrRun49 said:

Dang, I’m surprised how little amount of run Jimmy’s is getting here. What do you consider expensive? My 8oz jumbo lump cake and fries ran me $22.

I only eat at Jimmy’s once long ago. I believe it was a crab cake sandwich. It was very good but I thought it was small. 
 

Living in Westminster the stuff on the west side is way more convenient 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Roll Tide said:

Yes... probably mostly bad in Florida. Plus they tend to want pimento and other stuff in the south. I was in Georgia for a while and a pretty high profile place with several locations called Ray’s had a pretty good quality cake, but it had chopped pepper in it and served it with a garlic aioli. They had Old Bay in the kitchen so you could request it. But I don’t believe it was in their recipe. If you ever get through Atlanta look them up!

They don't want to pay.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 hours ago, Roll Tide said:

And you know this how?

I ask because I’m a restaurant guy that was in the process of buying/opening a restaurant in Westminster when the pandemic hit in March. My initial thought was on crabs (AUCE) and full service options for breakfast through dinner. 
 

I spoke to several distributors and most of the crabs and crabmeat is from Louisiana and Texas. Here Maryland/Virginia product is mixed in during the season. In bulk, the Louisiana stuff is very affordable even for Jumbo Lump. 
 

FYI, G&M and Timbuktu were owned by the same family for a considerable amount of years. I can’t say that I know if they still are but any change would’ve been in the last couple of years.

Speaking of foreign crab meat, It’s Phillips that uses crab meat from a cove they created in Indonesia. They transported Blue Crab from here to there and it’s essentially farm raised, fed fish local to that area, and tastes off IMO.

@CarrRun49 You can almost always get Backfin at Giant for around $12. It’s from South America, Peru as I recall. Which is much better than making it out of canned Salmon. The thought of that makes me want to ? 

I think I’d rather not have them

Carroll county guy here, work in Westminster every day.  We could use a few more spots to eat around here, hopefully you will be able to pick back up from where you left off!

Fratellis out in Hampstead has decent crab cakes, not completely traditional, but lump meat and quite tasty. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Satyr3206 said:

We have blue crabs here in the intercoastal waterway and the inlets. Maybe it's me or the water but they don't taste the same. They are bland.

Interesting that the crabs in Gulf of Mexico are the same species as the ones in Maryland.   A lot of restaurants advertise Maryland crabs but the Feds did DNA testing on them and they were Asian crabs at most places.  Traced back to a distributor that was selling Asian crabs as Maryland crab meat.  The owner had to go to jail.  Now if they sell you Gulf of Mexico crab meat and call it Maryland crab there really is no way to test to make sure they are telling the truth as they don't have unique DNA between the two places. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 minutes ago, atomic said:

Interesting that the crabs in Gulf of Mexico are the same species as the ones in Maryland.   A lot of restaurants advertise Maryland crabs but the Feds did DNA testing on them and they were Asian crabs at most places.  Traced back to a distributor that was selling Asian crabs as Maryland crab meat.  The owner had to go to jail.  Now if they sell you Gulf of Mexico crab meat and call it Maryland crab there really is no way to test to make sure they are telling the truth as they don't have unique DNA between the two places. 

These are definitely blue crabs. I have no way of doing dna testing. They just don't taste the same. Could be diet, habitat, or something I am not considering.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, murph said:

Carroll county guy here, work in Westminster every day.  We could use a few more spots to eat around here, hopefully you will be able to pick back up from where you left off!

Fratellis out in Hampstead has decent crab cakes, not completely traditional, but lump meat and quite tasty. 

Yes Fratelli's is very good! Might I suggest the blackened Shrimp and Chicken in cajun creme sauce! it's pretty amazing!

 

Thanks .... The reason the restaurant options are limited is due to the fact that years ago Westminster sold its excess water to Baltimore county on a long term deal. So you have to either buy or reopen in a spot that was previously a restaurant

And nobody wants to be in the mall and they are the only real spots available.

 

They are knocking down the Ruby Tuesday building and making a small strip plaza that will include a new chinese place (Gasp) .... And Mission BBQ is wating for a market correction (3-6 months) before opening in the old Friendly's spot.

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


  • Posts

    • I can’t emphasize enough how stupid that rain delay was.  No rain at all for 45 minutes, then two hours of light mist, the kind that teams play through all the time.  I was standing near the kids play area during most of the delay and believe me, that rain didn’t deter any kids from using the playground equipment for two hours. Then, 15 minutes before the game is going to start, the grounds crew is watering the infield.  What? The game itself was not worth the wait, needless to say.   But what annoys me most is the complete lack of communication during these delays.  How about letting the fans who are there know what the thinking is about how long the delay will be?  How about an update every 30 minutes or so.   Nope, nothing.   Just a generic message on the scoreboard saying that the start of the game will be delayed to to the “threat” of inclement weather.   My phone was showing .05” of rain expected in the next six hours.  Some threat! On the bright side, the team did announce that ticket holders would be given vouchers that could be used for a Monday - Thursday game.  That was the least they could do.       
    • 19,286 for that rain-delayed mess of a game.  I’d say about 2/3 of those stuck through the 3 hour delay and were in their seats at game time.  
    • And paid Scherzer, and Zimmerman, and Corbin, and Werth.   They didn’t all work out, but nobody could say the Nats didn’t spend to put a winning team on the field during their run.  The run basically ended because Stras II and Corbin blew up in their face.   But there’s always 2019.   
    • I can’t believe that 8 hours after Grayson stepped off the mound, I’m the first person to update his thread.   After a 19-day IL stint and without a rehab stint, Grayson threw 6 innings of one-hit shutout ball last night.  The one hit was an infield squibber hit 59.5 mph off the bat.  His command was a tad shaky at times, as he walked three and hit a batter, but he still breezed through 6 innings on 82 pitches, 50 for strikes.  If it hadn’t been his first outing in three weeks, he certainly could have pitched the 7th inning.  Unfortunately, the bullpen blew it for him. Fastball topped out at 98.4 and he was still hitting 97 in his final inning.  
    • I think half of Fangraphs’ staff over the years came from Lookout Landing.   I rarely read other teams’ sites, but I agree Pinstripe Alley is one of the best Yankee sites.     
    • For one thing, they don’t have Bautista shutting things down in the 9th inning or extra innings.   Second, 30-16 just doesn’t happen every year.  I’m actually pretty encouraged that the O’s have played .650 baseball without winning a disproportionate number of close games.    
    • Four more shutout innings for Chace last night, 2 hits, 3 walks, 6 strikeouts.   His ERA is 0.91, WHiP 1.21, K/9 12.7.   The only blemish is his 5.2 BB/9.   He’s pitched 8 games and has only allowed runs in two of them.   Yesterday he threw 45 of 68 pitches for strikes.  For some reason the O’s kind of have him under wraps, as he’s only been allowed to exceed 70 pitches twice, back in April.  He’s also been kept to four inning outings.  They’re clearly being very careful with the 20-year old (turns 21 in three weeks).  In fairness, they did need to shut him down for a month late last summer, so I’m guessing it’s more season load management than game-by-game decisions.   In any event, it’s been a promising campaign for Chace.    
  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...