Fresh Food

Readers discretion is advised. This post deals with violence and mature subject matter.

Today started out as any other. I woke up to early because of the cat being whiney, and Sonja tossing and turning wildly. We finally got up and had breakfast of cereal and talked with her parents before they left this afternoon. Sonja went to work at her regular time of 8:30 and I left shortly after. I was working the late shift so I had to stay until 5. The day kinda drug on. Playing clean up after the early shift. Then though, it was lunch and one of the doctors is getting married so Sonja's clinic put on a shower for him at lunch. I think it was more of an excuse to make some good food and eat it.

After the shower on my way back to work I was asked by a man if I wanted to buy some crab. He was on his bike holding a bucket of crab on the front biking down the street asking everyone. I look inside his bucket and sure enough, they were crabs. He was asking $6 per crab. I told him I would buy some but I had to come back to the apartment to get some cash. Jim and Lene were still here so I told them I bought some crab. I got the money and Ray, the crab guy asked if I knew how to clean them. I said no as I have never seen a crab so close before. He dumped his bucket and then asked which ones I wanted. Surprisingly they were still alive only out of the water 15 minutes, trying to crawl away on him. I picked the two biggest ones and watched him clean them. He did so with a quick flick of the wrist, peeled the top shell back like a sardine can, cleaned out the inards and pulled off the legs and claws. Since I didn't know if I even like crab I sent one and a half back home with Jim and Lene and kept half for ourselves.

Shortly after our crab purchase it was time to take them to the airport. We did that and waited until they boarded the plane before we went back to work. Before they left though they managed to go to the elders lunch that was put on, and had some traditional and untraditional food. They ate everything from seaweed soup and clamfritters, to Kraft Dinner.

The rest of the day drug on as nothing happened from 3 until I was off at 5. So it was really boring. After work though we came home and cooked up the crab. I asked Ray when I bought it how to cook it and he told me to boil it for 10-15 minutes and eat it with garlic butter. So we did just that. It was pretty good. Not very filling but good. It would have been better if we had crab crackers or something to get at the meat better than a fork.

We bought some garlic butter a few weeks ago to make garlic toast with and I never knew why this isolated town and its tiny band store stocked such a specialty item like garlic butter. But we now know it is for dipping crab into.

Sonja was just throwing the scrap crab to the eagles, trying to bait them for some good pictures, but they had bigger chunks of meat to fight over instead.

No real plans for the rest of the night. Maybe go for a walk. Eat some popcorn. Relax.

Tyler