Saturday Night Seafood Tsunami - AKA GAF account deposits - AKA Food Porn

I won't go into too much detail here unless anyone has specific questions, but Saturday night the GF had a friend/client over for dinner - in order to make a good impression, I was asked to handle the heavy lifting in terms of food prep.  After some discussion, we decided on a 3 course, small plate seafood extravaganza.

Course 1 - Dungeness Crab Cakes with Cilantro Aioli
Pretty straight forward here - a little garlic, lemon zest, scallion and cilantro, bind loosely together with just enough panko to hold it's shape or else they get mealy.  I use a food form or biscuit cutter to keep them uniform, then coat with panko, re-shape and fry.  Served on a bed of dressed arugula (champagne vinegar, olive oil, honey, dijon, S&P) finish with more aioli.

Course 2 - Avocado Tuna Tartare.
Beautiful piece of Pacific tuna, 1/4" dice, a little olive oil and white pepper over avocado with lemon juice.  I made a Sriracha, sesame oil, mayo sauce and some micro green clover sprouts for garnish.  Served with taro chips, but also good with fried wonton wrappers.

Course 3 - Spicy Thai Mussels with Garlic toast.
Nothing original here, I basically boosted this recipe verbatim from epicurious.  It's been a standard in our house for years - easy and tasty.  I make a full batch of the sauce for 3 lbs of mussels, good for dipping bread in.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Spicy-Thai-Steamed-Mussels-101999

All in all the night was a huge success and the GAF account runneth over. 

sounds good, im starving right now!

Damn Dude!
And you say you don't want to venture into WAF!
With that talent you are going to have to say yes soon.

And you say you don't want to venture into WAF!

It's not the actual W that doesn't suite me - I'm fine with that.  It's the gambling half my sh*t and 50% custody that left a bad taste in my mouth last time.  Although, I must admit if we lived in the same city, I could feed the WAF account all week so I wouldn't have to fish on the only 2 days we get to see each other... hmmmm...

Oh man!!!! That looked good!!!

AWESOME!!!!!!!!! 

WTG bro and thanks for sharing!!

 

Sincerely,

Jim

WOW

Amazing!

Delicious!  Any left over?