Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Crabcakes, hon!


I'm from Maryland, I lived in Baltimore, I love crabs. That's kinda how it works. So when our friend Laurie generously offered to bring back fresh Alaskan king crab legs from the Aleutian islands, we were psyched! Backfin meat is the best to use, and king crab legs you get at the store will have a large portion of the backfin meat on the ends. Pick that stuff clean, its the best meat! Here's some prep advice for making Maryland Crabcakes:

1) Mix together these for the filler: bread crumbs, chopped celery, onion and/or red pepper, 1 egg, mayonnaise, Worcestershire, pepper, salt, and most important: OLD BAY seafood seasoning. Please don't forget the Old Bay or forget about the "Maryland" part of your crabcakes. :)



2) Fold in the crabmeat & Shape into cakes as big as you like.

3)Melt butter in the fry pan and cook until brown, about 5 minutes per side.

Then eat em!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Clint & Megan ~ Breckenridge, CO

Clint and Megan are a super sweet couple from Denver. Their wedding is in August, but they wanted to have their engagement session around some snow. So we headed for the mountains of course! We picked downtown Breckenridge to get a little bit of everything: snow, mountains, mountain town...we found tons of cool places to photograph without walking more than a couple blocks, a very fun shoot!













Mike D's got the deuces wild

Mike D is the dog of our friends Stephan and Carrie. Mike is just a puppy, but he's a LOT of puppy. He's a huge German Wirehair/Rottweiler mix, huge in body and personality. Mike's one of the coolest looking dogs around with a wiry yellow beard and gazing green eyes, he already looks wise beyond his...well...year. We took care of Mike last week and had a blast. Mike and our dog Zula are best friends. Mike likes the older women, and Zula loves the younger men, they're perfect for each other. They love to play, fight, chase, and then sleep....Here's a couple shots Lynn took while Mike was lounging on the floor.

"I'm Mike D. - I got the deuces wild,
a list of girlies numbers that I've dialed"
~ beastie boys