Savannah Breeze (39 page)
Authors: Mary Kay Andrews
If you're paralyzed by fear of frying, these crabcakes are a winner, because they're baked in the oven, not fried. While they're in the oven, mix up a batch of Blue Breeze cocktails!
1 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. minced red onion
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tbsp. red bell pepper, minced
½ tsp. Old Bay crab boil seasoning
3 tbsp. half-and-half
1 tbsp. spicy brown mustard
1 egg
½ tsp. minced parsley
1 lb. white or claw crab meat, picked over for shells
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Topping:
½ cup bread crumbs
¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. melted butter
Sauté vegetables in butter till limp, about 3 minutes. Add Old Bay, half-and-half, and mustard. Mix well. Add egg, parsley, and bread crumbs, mixing well. Gently fold in crab.
Form into 8 patties about ½-inch thick, or smaller, for appetizer-size servings. Stir together bread crumbs and parmesan. Pat topping onto both sides of the crabcakes and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
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Place patties on cookie sheet, sprinkle with oil and butter mixture and bake at 400º for 7â10 min.
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For appetizer servings, place mini-crabcakes on a bed of mixed salad greens, top with spicy remoulade. For entrée servings, top with mango salsa.
Pour into cocktail shaker:
4 ounces lemonade
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce blue curaçao
Shake, pour over tall glass of cracked ice, top with seltzer, and stir. Garnish with lime slice and 3â4 blueberries threaded on a cocktail pick.
As always, I'm indebted to the kindnesses of friendsâand strangers, who helped with the research for
Savannah Breeze
. Anne Landers shared innkeeping secrets; Bob Dykema and Jeff Johnston of Thunderbolt Yacht Sales told me about yacht shopping; Jimmy Marsden helped with boat stuff. Junking buddies Polly Powers Stram and Jacky Yglesias shared their love and knowledge of Savannah and Tybee, and Oline Cogdill helped out with Fort Lauderdale info. Thanks also to Virginia Reeve and Ron and Leuveda Garner for sharing their corner of Tybee with me. Any errors or misstatements of fact are my own fault and not theirs. Of course, I owe everything to the love and support of my family, Tom, Katie, and Andy Trocheck, who keep me sane and never fail to remind me that I'm nothing without them! I'm also deeply indebted to my HarperCollins family, especially Carolyn Marino, Jennifer Civiletto, Leslie Cohen and Elly Weisenberg, and the SKLA team, Stuart Krichevsky, Shana Cohen, and Liz Coen. I really
am
nothing without them.
M
ARY
K
AY
A
NDREWS
is a former journalist for the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution
and the national bestselling author
of Savannah Blues, Little Bitty Lies
, and
Hissy Fit
. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
www.marykayandrews.com
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Jacket illustration by
HELEN CHAPMAN
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real.
SAVANNAH BREEZE
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ePub edition March 2006 ISBN 9780061753534
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Andrews, Mary Kay
        savannah breeze / Mary Kay Andrews.â1st ed.
              p. cm.
        1.Savannah (Ga.)âFiction. I. Title.
      PS3570.R587B74 2006
      813'.6âdc22 2005046251
ISBN-10: 0-06-056466-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-05466-7
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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