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off and on,   when i could.   for the New Year.    When i finally lived alone in New Mex.   sometimes.   Just me.   and today,  belated due to circumstance,   Alyssia and i.   When she picked it up some days ago,  we debated on how much and i said i want more than i can eat.    Each box has 4 clusters.   we got 3 boxes.    and it was more than i could eat….i am amazed to say…..i thought i could eat crab legs into eternity….   A box went back to her house for Jeff…which assuaged my guilt for not including him but that would have meant his kids too and we were feeling selfish,  and her,  childless for the last day,         We were like two raccoons down at the creek.   next to no conversation,  just the intense focus on cracking open shell and scooping out the succulence.   She made a complex butter sauce.   

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6 responses to “an extravagance”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    extravagant succulence … and time alone with your granddaughter … such bliss

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    A very good feast and a very good day to choose to indulge. I know that this is your New Year’s Eve ritual so I wondered if you were doing it this year…
    For me, it is Dungeness crab. always had it on Christmas Eve, even as a child. I remember one year, Rich and I were in San Francisco at a restaurant, crab was in season and I asked for it for my dinner. The waiter made a big deal of saying that they would crack it for me before bringing it…well I practically levitated from my chair and said rather loudly, “NO”, the joy of eating Dungeness crab is all about the cracking, the messiness, the licking of the fingers dripping with butter, etc.” The look on his face was priceless and I could tell that he wanted to boot me out of the place but he brought me a lb and a 1/2 crab, and made a huge ceremony of tying on the bib to protect my clothes…I smiled and thanked him and then commenced to be my own verion of a racoon!!!

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  3. CatherinE Avatar

    Once we bought an extravagant amount of mussels because we felt we never served enough. We ate until we were sick of mussels, yes we did come to that.

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  4. Beth from Still Life Pond Avatar
    Beth from Still Life Pond

    It’s giving me a lot of pleasure imagining this.

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  5. Peggy McG Avatar
    Peggy McG

    Life’s wonderful indulgences are made better with butter!

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  6. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    Not selfish.
    Shellfish with complex butter with a kindred spirit.

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