Any one know of any lighter soft shell crab recipes, in other words, not involving deep frying?

Can anyone recommend places to purchase soft shell crab (frozen are fine) in the LA area? Thanks!

The ONLY way to make a soft shell crab sandwich is with store-bought white bread, a Maryland tomato and mayonnaise. At least that is the only sandwich in my top ten best foods of all time.

I bought my first soft shell crab today at the market. Very tasty!!! How do you cook these? Last year I kept trying a lemon caper sauce which I don’t really care for. Looking for something different. Here is my method of...

?), but they were even better (and less expensive) than Thalia. Obviously, soft shell crab season is a bonding ritual among the women in my family...

That’s good because I’m going to San Gabriel tomorrow — but are they the soft shell crabs, where you eat the whole thing? Will they clean them for you?

I have always loved soft-shell crab in restaurants and have never prepared myself. I sometimes find restaurant versions overly breaded and over fried- does anyone have any tried and true suggestions on how to prepare to really...

So soft shell crabs don’t need to cleaned like dungeness crabs?

I’ll certainly defer to Susan for deep fried soft shells. It sounds devine. My favorite way to cook and eat them is more of a saute. Dust the cleaned crabs with a well seasoned flour mix (I like cayenne in mine). Let rest in...

I bought three soft-shell crabs at Santa Monica Seafood last week. They were alive and $5 each. They cleaned them for me. That price is the “early season” price. They will drop to $3-4 in the next few weeks. I only...

When cleaned before hand (absolute must), soft shells freeze reasonably well, and if you have a hankerin' for one, feel free to order any place you might typically find one...they really aren’t bad at all. Out in Rock...

The soft-shell crabs I bought at a Chinatown market last night certainly sucked — very fresh and active, but their shells were so hard I ended up scraping out all the meat. Not worth the trouble of snipping off their...

I picked up two softshell crabs this weekend and had the fishmarket clean them. I have never made them before, but they looked really good in a recent recipe I saw in Gourmet or Bon Appetit — however I can’t find it...

I want to do Mark Bittman’s quick recipe for soft shell crabs from this week’s NYT. Who has them around where I live (Washington Square Village)? Does Whole Foods? The only fishmonger really close to me is Lobster...

Hi all, Just saw this article on soft shell crab and pasta in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28mini.html And now I have a craving for it. Anyone know where I can buy some in the South Bay area? Thanks.