She Crab Soup

F.A. Moore

She Crab Soup

Chesapeake Bay She Crab Soup

4 Tbsp, butter, melted
1 small onion, finely chopped
3 Tbsp flour
2 cups light cream
2 cups milk
1 pound Blue Crab she-crabmeat
Orange roe
2 Tbsp Sherry
Salt and Pepper to taste

-Saute onion in butter until translucent. Stir in flour.
Add cream and milk; simmer 5 minutes over medium heat.
While the soup is thickening, toss the crabmeat and roe in
butter and heat through a few minutes.
Once the soup has thickened,
Add crabmeat, roe, Sherry, and seasonings. Heat through.

the Crab’s version:
Substitute any delicate, fleshy meat.
Strain attachments.
See illustration.

Watch out for those SHE-CRABS!


Digital work, surrealistic, 900×1300 pixels, by F.A. Moore, June 22, 2009.

Suggestions:Chesapeake Bay area or Atlantic Ocean friendly note card.

Special thanks for crab stock: askjell-stock and for the challenge image provided by All in, Editing.

This is my entry into the current editing challenge for All in, Editing. See challenge image below.


DETAIL All detail views are 100% size. Due to the size and resolution of the challenge image, this piece is small, 900×1300.


Head and crab detail ^


Cowboy hat and glasses detail ^


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Challenge participants must edit this image for an artwork ^

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She Crab Soup by F.A. Moore
She Crab Soup by F.A. Moore
  • F.A. Moore

    F.A. Moore

    Please view larger!

  • Norval Arbogast

    Norval Arbogast

    I like this. I will have to try your recipe

  • F.A. Moore replied

    Do try my recipe and not the she-crab’s! ;) Thanks, Norval.

  • Roseann

    Roseann

    Wow! That is really wild! Very cool design. I love the way the milk splash was done.

  • F.A. Moore replied

    Roseann, the milksplash was an inspired afterthought. Watch out for those “she-crabs”! ;)

  • Susan Kimball

    Susan Kimball

    very creative, I like it!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    Thanks, Susan! It was fun to turn the tables on who exactly was making the soup! Thanks for favoriting!

  • Sheila Laurens

    Sheila Laurens

    Lovely work !! Loving the recipe too, nice touch !! XX
    Sheila

  • F.A. Moore replied

    Thanks Sheila!...and for the challenge. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had the joy of making this fun piece.

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz

    lol…love the sense of humor here…excellent!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    lol, I can count on you, Helene, to get my drift! Thank you.

  • Carol Berliner

    Carol Berliner

    perfect! Pure magic! I loooove it! Yuuuuuuuumo! Instant fav!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    lol. Carol. Watch out for those she crabs, now. Thanks for the fav!

  • linaji

    linaji

    you are hellarious!! I missed this.. and wow your ability with photoshop blows my socks off!! Good luck sweet!!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    Lina! You aptly put the “hell” in “hellarious”. This one was a bit wicked. lol. Usually I’m very, very sweet. You know i am. :))

  • linaji

    linaji

    It is the ‘close-up’.. that’s KILLER.. tee hee!! Oh and btw.. nice with out a bit of the wicked.. just ain’t no good!!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    You got it! The gore is in the details. lol. Thanks for making me feel better about letting the dark humor slip out to sunbathe. You’re the best. :D

  • Steven  Agius

    Steven Agius

    Cool work she crabs rock, well done.

  • F.A. Moore replied

    :) thank you Steven!

  • robpixaday

    robpixaday

    Bwahah!!!!!!!!
    LOVE the claws attacking!!!!!
    This is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • F.A. Moore replied

    :D) I love what you said! lol.

  • banrai

    banrai

    photoshop seems like a toy to you.. wonderful image and mastery..

  • F.A. Moore replied

    ...a very fun toy, thank you (then again, I’ve had it a long time- version 3 of Photoshop Elements. I know, terrible, what’s wrong with me?:)

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