This is my mom’s recipe, which I tweaked just a bit by using panko instead of breadcrumbs.

For the crab meat, ideally we would have picked the crabs on the back porch, steamed crabs, shells and guts piled high on newspaper, the smell of Old Bay in the air, snitching a bite or two and dipping it in apple cider vinegar. But alas, I’m land-locked in Missouri, so canned crab has to do. My preference would be Byrd International, harkening back to work I did for them in the late 90s with my friend Rick Maloof, but unfortunately Super-Schnucks only had Phillips.

The ingredients:
1 lb lump blue crab
1 beaten egg
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire
little bit of salt and pepper
panko
oil

Beat the egg. Stir in the mayo, mustard and Worcestershire. Add the crab, fold it in and stir it together. Add a little salt and pepper. Taste it and tweak the seasoning if you desire — but make sure it still tastes like crab! Make some patties, like small hamburgers, and coat them in panko. Heat the oil in a frying pan to medium heat and drop in some panko to gauge the temperature. When the panko sizzles, add the crab cakes and fry them, browning them on each side, maybe as much as 5 minutes depending on the temperature of the oil. Set them on a paper towel to drain the excess oil. Serve them as part of a meal with a vegetable, but don’t add a sauce or a garnish to the crab cakes themselves. They’re fine on their own!

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P.S. They even have a chapter titled “Play is Not the Opposite of Work,” which echoes our mantra “Fun is Not the Enemy of Work.” How cool is that?

I ran the printer diagnostics and everything looked OK except for a FAIL on the Network Name (SSID) Found step. I had the name specified exactly as it is when I connect to it with my Mac and PC. I then printed the HP Network Configuration page and saw that there were 2 linksys SSIDs listed.

So I logged into my linksys WRT54G wireless router (http://192.168.1.1, username: admin, password: admin) and changed the name to a unique one (Natron of course!), refreshed the network setup page and voila, everything worked!

So moral of the story is this: the HPC4795 printers will not connect to the wireless network successfully if there are two access points with the same name, even though my Mac and PC have no problem with this setup. An error message on HP setup would be most helpful - “The printer could not connect to the access point in 30 seconds. Are there two access points with the same name on your network?”

Hope this helps.

1. I have a deep emotional relationship with my phone. You’d have to make something that will provide a better relationship and feature set.

2. No call drops and coverage in more areas.

3. You’d have to be considerably cheaper than the iPhone service, period.

So Research In Motion, when you get your Storm 3 and it has the capability to create a stronger emotional connection than my iPhone, then you might have me if you:

1. Pay my AT&T bill for 6 months.
2. Give me the Storm 3 device and service free for 6 months.
3. Automatically port my existing phone number, contact list, apps, pictures and music to the new phone, with complete rollback undo capability in case your product sucks.

Then, and only then, will I give you a shot. So my prediction: not going to happen.

So dear readers, all 4 of you (and you know who you are!) let me know what you think in the comments below.

One each:
Yellow Onion
Red Onion
Yellow Squash
Zucchini
Bottle Pale Ale
Dried Chili Pepper
Large Tomato
Bunch Cilantro

2 Large Portobello Mushrooms
1 Pack Shiitake Mushrooms

Cumin seeds, 2 pieces garlic - minced, salt, pepper, cayenne, celery salt

On medium heat, soften the yellow and red onions in vegetable oil with the minced garlic, a small handful of cumin seeds and a small handful of salt. Once the onions are soft, add the sliced & quartered squash and zucchini.

Meanwhile, dump each of the cans into a large crockpot, including the liquid, which serves as a pseudo-vegetarian broth. Dice and add the fresh tomato. Scrub the portobellos, cut off the black gills, cut into bite-sized chunks and add. Scrub, de-stem, slice and add the shiitakes. Now that the squash and onions are soft, transfer to the crockpot. Add a couple shakes of black pepper, cayenne pepper and celery salt. Drop in the dried chili, and stir in the bottle of pale ale (I like Schlafly Pale). Rough chop a small handful of cilantro and add.

Cook on low until it is hot. Stir and taste occasionally for seasoning.

This serves 10 or is good for a couple of meals for 2.

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September 11, 2001

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Kabul Afghanistan
October 7, 2001

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April 19, 1995

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Baghdad, Iraq
March 20, 2003

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