Epic Failure

One of my favorite things about being married is trying something new together and failing miserably at it. It ends up being so hilarious that there is really nothing else that either of you can do, so you might as well just pour a glass of wine :)

This past weekend, Jared's dad met up with us in Tallahassee and brought some stone crab for us. It was sitting in my refrigerator for 2 days and I was already sick of my fridge smelling like seafood. After work yesterday, I decided that I wanted to make something for dinner involving this crab meat so that I could be rid of it. I knew that we weren't just going to eat crab meat ala carte for dinner, so I was going to have to make this into some sort of dish. I googled crab recipes and found one for a pasta dish...sort of like shrimp scampi, but with crab instead of shrimp. I figured that this would be the easiest to make and would probably come out the best.

Jared arrived home from work and we got started on our little cooking experiment. He cracked all the crab legs and pulled out all the meat. I was in charge of making the angel hair pasta and getting started on the scampi sauce. Once I was done making the sauce, he seasoned it up a little more since he is actually the one who knows how to cook well. We added the sauce to our crab meat and tossed it over the pasta. It looked quite delicious.

Disaster. We started eating it, took about 2 bites, looked at each other and started laughing hysterically. The flavor was decent, nothing great, but not terrible. The epic downfall of our pasta dish...crab shell. Even though Jared thoroughly shredded the crab meat, little pieces of shell managed to sneak in there. So as we are trying to eat this mediocre-tasting meal, we keep biting down on little hard bits of shell and trying to fish them out of the pasta. That managed to destroy what little bit of enjoyment there was of this meal to begin with. Dissecting a pasta dish with your fork is rather difficult and I did not like that I had to keep sticking my fingers in my mouth to get the hard shell bits out of my crab meat.

Eventually, Jared and I both gave up on this meal and opted for a glass of wine instead. I was so disappointed that this meal did not turn out how I expected it to. Either way, Jared and I had a lot of fun making this meal together. We were so excited about our new creation...and it sucked. There is really nothing more you can do about that than have a good laugh :)