Cheddar Crab & Shrimp Casserole

Today is National Crab Meat Day!   So you guessed it today's Gone Fishin Friday featured recipe will contain crab meat. 

Cheddar Crab & Shrimp Casserole

Ingredients:

• 4 oz grated Cheddar cheese
• 1 tbsp garlic
• 1/4 lb butter
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 lb lump crab meat
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1/2 tsp each of red, white &  black pepper
• 2 tbsp parsley
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 oz chopped boiled shrimp
• 2 tsp dried thyme

Instructions:

1. Melt butter in medium saucepan over low heat.
2. Add flour until thickened. Cook this roux over low heat, stirring often for 10 minutes.
3. Be sure not to brown your roux, it should be a white roux.
4. Add cheese, whipping cream, milk, parsley and seasonings.
5. Cook until cheese is melted and sauce thickens.
6. Fold in lump crab meat, and shrimp and cook another 5 minutes.
7. Transfer to (spray with Pam) casserole dish.
8. Brown in oven and serve.

Bon Appetit!

A great addition to this meal for the cheddar cheese lovers is this, recipe: Cheddar Bay Biscuits 

If you don't feel like cooking and can take a trip to Schuylkill County, PA....

A great place about 12 miles north of me that has great seafood dishes: The Oak Hill Inn    

From Allentown & Lehigh Valley:

78/22 West ; Merge onto Rt. 61 North (By Cabela’s) for 12 miles; we will be located on your left.  We ate there last Good Friday with my cousin Paula. I had the Crab Imperial and it was wonderful!

Reservations are highly recommended:  570-366-3881 or oakhillinn@gmail.com