Cougar Ranch Crab Rockefeller Recipes

Steps:

• Make the sauce: In a medium bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, chili sauce, sour cream, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, half the scallions and a pinch of salt. Taste for seasoning.
• For the crab: Spread the crab out on a rimmed baking sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the remaining scallions and half the chives. Drizzle with the sauce to taste. Do not mix.
• To plate: Arrange the lettuce leaves as cups in a circle on a large plate. Disperse the tomatoes around the lettuce. Spoon some of the crab into each lettuce cup. Top each cup with an egg quarter and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with the remaining chives and a squeeze of lemon. Hold in the refrigerator until ready to serve and enjoy cold.

Steps:

• Clean mushrooms and remove stems.
• Dry and brush tops with olive oil.
• Set aside.
• Melt butter in pan.
• Add onion and sauté until tender, but not browned.
• Add spinach and mix well.
• Add crabmeat, cream, and cheese.
• Mix to blend.
• Stuffed mushrooms to heaping.
• Put in lightly sprayed baking dish; bake at 375 degrees F. for 15-20 minutes or until juices release into dish; brown slightly until broiler, if needed.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Remove the stems from the portobello mushrooms and chop the stems. Set the whole mushroom caps aside.
• In a medium heated frying pan add olive oil, onion, garlic, and mushroom stems. Saute until soft, about 3 minutes. Deglaze pan with white wine.
• Pour in half-and-half and mix well. Add chopped spinach and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Shake in grated Parmesan and breadcrumbs. Sauce will thicken when heated through, another few minutes. Remove from heat.
• On a baking sheet, or large pan with a grate, arrange mushrooms, cavity-side up. Spoon in enough spinach mixture to fill the portobello mushroom cap. Stack on a couple spoonfuls of crab. Top with mozzarella cheese. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, checking occasionally to make sure the cheese doesn't burn. Remove mushrooms from the oven and serve warm.

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt 2 tbs butter. Stir in flour until smooth; gradually add the milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat; stir in the cheese until smooth. Add the spinach and crab. Transfer to a greased shallow 1 quart baking dish. Melt the remaining butter; toss with bread crumbs. Sprinkle over the top. Bake, uncovered at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until bubbly. Yield: 3-4 servings.

Steps:

• 1. In a frying pan over medium-high heat melt butter and sauté celery, green onions and parsley until just tender, 3-5 minutes
• 2. Reduce to medium-low, stir in Worcestershire and Tobasco cooking for about 10 minutes to blend flavors.
• 3. Add liqueur and bread crumbs and cook for 5 minutes longer to blend.
• 4. Season to taste with salt and pepper, transfer to bowl and refrigerate until set but not hard, approximately 1 hour.
• 5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter 6 shallow remekins or small baking dishes and divide the crabmeat among them reserving 6 of the largest pieces for garnish.
• 6. Remove sauce from refrigerator. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat sauce until it is lighter in texture and aerated, about 2 minutes.
• 7. Spoon 3-4 tablespoons of sauce over crabmeat and garnish each with piece of crabmeat.

Steps:

• Cut kernels off corn cobs. Set kernels aside. Combine cobs, broth, and cream in heavy large saucepan. Simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Heat oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add bacon and sauté until crisp, about 8 minutes. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain. Pour off all but 3 tablespoons pan drippings; add onion, leeks, celery, and fennel seeds to pot. Sauté until vegetables are crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in potatoes. Discard cobs from cream mixture; strain cream mixture into potato mixture. Simmer until potatoes are almost tender, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Stir in corn kernels. Simmer chowder until potatoes are tender, about 5 minutes longer.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add mushrooms and sauté until tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in Sherry and thyme. Add mushroom mixture to chowder. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Sauté crabmeat in same large skillet over medium-low heat just until heated through, about 3 minutes. Divide crabmeat, reserved bacon, and parsley among bowls. Ladle chowder over and serve.

Steps:

• Melt butter in pan.
• Add onion and saute until tender but not brown.
• Add spinach and mix well.
• Add crabmeat and cheese.
• Put in serving dish and serve with crackers or Melba toast.

Steps:

• Squeeze as much water as possible out of the chopped spinach and place in a 12-inch Dutch oven. Thin the soup in a bowl with the milk, fold in the grated cheese, and set aside. In a smaller DO or skillet melt the butter over low heat and add the broken bread broken. Fry for a couple of minutes until the bread bits have soaked up all the butter. Place the crab meat over the bed of spinach, then pour the cheese and soup mixture over the top. Sprinkle the bread bits over the top and season with black pepper and paprika. Bake with 6-8 briquets underneath and 18-20 on top for about forty minutes. Serve with a green salad and crusty sourdough bread.