Oh oops there’s jumbo lump crab in this salad, oops.
Sure it’s Friday and sure it’s always to fun to end the week with something super decadent and oozy and rich and slow-motion-in-front-of-a-fan worthy. Sure.
But get this. We can totally do that with this crab and celery salad! Oh but we can!
ALLOW ME TO ELABORATE: (you just rolled your eyes I could feel it)
A) Jumbo lump crab. I almost can’t type it out without completely losing my mind. Have you ever had it? Yes it’s stupid expensive. But go to the store today, pick up a little can, open it, drain it, stick your nose right down in that and TELL me you don’t momentarily slip into the fourth dimension. Just try and tell me.
B) Crunchy, crispy celery. Ya don’t often think about celery being a staple in a salad, but it’s actually quite stellar in this here situation. AND did you know that you actually burn calories while eating celery? Yeah! All the work it takes to chew it, you’re totally working out. I think I learned this from Clueless or something. So we know we can trust it.
C) I want to wax your face off about the hard-boiled eggs and the juicy halved cherry tomatoes and the bright lemon dressing and all that fresh parsley, but honestly, all I can think about is the crab. The craaaaabbbbaaaa. (Oh! Let’s start a band: Crabba) It’s like dumping solid gold into your face with a backhoe. No imitation, duders. Jumbo lump it. I’m telling you, SNIFF THAT CAN.and.you.will.see.a.new.way.
So see? You can picture it now. There we are, with a huge platter of this crab and celery salad. A fan blowing our Farrah Fawcett hair, in a red bathing suit. Okay ew scratch the bathing suit idea. But we’re slowly shoveling loads of salad into our heads, bedroom-eying the camera, in slow motion, and a little piece of the succulent crab kind of dribbles down our chin, but we don’t care, and some parsley gets stuck in our teeth, but whatever, we’re so happy. So blissful. So euphoric.
So . . . okay, weird.
MAKE THIS.
Crab Salad with Celery:
(totally inspired by Lidia)
What it took for 1 large salad:
* 2 eggs, hard-boiled and roughly chopped
* 4 stalks celery, diced
* 1(6.5 oz) can jumbo lump crab, drained
* 1/4 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
* 1/3 cup freshly chopped parsley
* 2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
* 2 Tbs. fresh lemon juice
* coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
In a large bowl combine the eggs through the parsley.
In a small bowl whisk together the oil, lemon juice, a pinch of salt and pepper.
Now this is hard stuff, so pay attention. Drizzle the dressing over the crab and celery salad. Toss it. That’s . . . it.
Eat!
OMG it’s so insane you don’t even know.
What about a baby blue bathing suit?!
I love crabs
in salads, of course.
Love this, look so good!
This salad looks beautiful Bev!
Jumbo lump is the only way to go!
Wait, what’s wrong with the red bathing suit? I don’t care what color I get to wear as long as I have the Farrah Fawcett hair
It’s worth the splurge!
I’m right there with ya on jumbo lump crab. It is TO DIE FOR. Salad looks and sounds fab!
This look soo beautiful and delicious. If it weren’t snowing right now I would make this instead of the soup I’m cooking!
I have that kind of reaction to lump crab meat, too. It’s my kryptonite. So that, of course, means that I love this salad.
Only you Bev can make lump crab look amazing… and the whole bit on burning calories while chewing celery… SOLD!
I need this in my life.
Mmm..crabba….. PS: I literally said “eww” to the bathing suit suggestion right as you said. Glad we’re on the same page. The fan can totally stay though.
Bev this is just a gorgeous salad!
Love this, Bev! Swoon!
The Lic’s deli sign today said “Spicy Crab Quesadillas” and I was really tempted to stop even knowing it would be imitation and likely pretty greasy. This JUMBO LUMP CRAB is definitely more my style!!
hand me a fork and a plate full of this salad.
I think this is totally acceptable for a Friday or pretty much any other day.
I want this a crazy stupid and completely astronomical amount.
Gurlllllllll. This. Is. Killing. Me.
This looks de-li-cious and oh so pretty!!!
Ah! Very nice crab salad recipe! Would definitely go with lump crab meat and not canned if at all possible.
Thank you!
This sounds like my idea of salad heaven! Can’t wait to try it.
This is possibly the most beautiful salad I have ever seen! Looks sooo fresh!
That’s so pretty that I would, for just a moment, consider not eating it. Then I would realize that’s ridiculous and then devour that salad. It looks so good!
Okay so celery salad is a staple in my house. My middle school’r cant make lunch fast enough when we have left overs.. and my 2 year old will forsake all others for 2 bowls of celery salad for dinner!!!
generally its a Caesar dressing, chopped celery including the leaves, parmesan cheese explosion in you taste buds…. and I have bee wanting to spruce it up… YOU HAVE DONE IT! YOU HAVE GIVIEM MY CELERY SALAD NEW LIFE!!!
Also, you have the most wonderfully witty sense of humor… i find I’m reading your posts JUST to literally laughs out loud!!
KEEP DOIN WHAT YOU DO!!!
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I’m making this salad I purchased all my ingredients today since jumbo lump crab meat was on sale looking forward to tomorrow!
Ok I made this today 3/9/2013 I’m going to honest I fold the cipe almost to a T I omitted the eeye yolks it tastgood but not Great I questioned what did I do wrong I I figured it out I brought the wrong crab meat (smh) instead of jumbo lump crab meat I purchased jumbo can 1lb crab meat pasteurized not to disappointed because it still taste good but next time will pay close attention to the crab meat I purchase oh and add a pinch of celery salt to enhanced the flavor of the celery …