Okay, so I recently spent a few days down in California at my Dad’s place in San Luis Obispo. He had just recently undergone open heart surgery, and wanted me to play ‘Top Chef’ during his convalescent period.
Since he’s a lover of Pacific NW seafood, I brought a few tasty ingredients with me on the plane – frozen cracked crab meat from Hood Canal, some of my homemade smoked salmon, and some frozen Razor Clams that we dug up early last Spring.
I had perfected my own personal recipe for Dungeness Crab Pot Pies a few weeks earlier, so I thought I would try them out on him. Here’s the recipe:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
1 lb. of Dungeness Crab Meat (or more if you’re a crabaholic like me!)
1 – 16oz. jar of creamy Alfredo sauce
1/2 cup of sliced frozen fresh snap peas
1/2 cup of baby carrots sliced
1/2 cup of fresh whole kernel corn
1/2 cup of sliced fresh mushrooms
1/4 cup of fresh chopped Cilantro
1/4 cup of diced Walla Walla Sweet Onion
2 tablespoons of fresh diced Jalapeno
1 package of pie crusts (usually comes in a 15oz. box w/ 2 rolled 9-in. crusts)
6 – 4in. diameter poreclin Ramekins
Combine all ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Roll out pie crust and use a ramekin as a mold to cut-out 6 pie tops. Roll cut-outs with rolling pin so they’re slightly larger and thinner. Puncture pie tops several times with fork. Spoon mixture liberally into each ramekin. Cover ramekins with pie crust tops. Brush pie crust tops with mixture of 1 egg, 1tbsp of butter, 1tbsp of milk. Place on cookie sheet and place into oven. Cook for 25-30 minutes.
Goes exceptionally well with a tossed Romaine salad, Sour Dough French Bread, and a glass of Pinot Grigio.
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OMG this looks so good. We love crab and will definitely try this. We start in January with crab feeds here in San Francisco area of California. Yum..Thanks for sharing. Chris was just there at RainCamp in SF…she enjoyed it. I had a conflict and couldn’t come, maybe next time.
Just have to find those sweet Wa onions…can’t be beat.
Hey Rich. Thanks for sharing the Pot Pie recepie. We will be trying that here. Sounds delicious.