Dungeness crab is a type of crab that's specific to the West Coast and is found from Washington State south to Santa Barbara. The local food-obsessed eagerly await the beginning of the local crab season each November, and our season began last week.
My first taste of crab was this morning as I had a crab salad at Swan Oyster Depot for breakfast. Many locals avoid SOD because of the tourist hype -- it's included in every valid guidebook for San Francisco and has lines out the door at lunch -- but if you go on off hours, particularly in the early morning, then the place is pretty empty and there's no wait. It's open at 8 each morning and you can order the full menu all day. If crab salad doesn't tempt your palate in the early morning, try going late afternoon right before they close at 5:30.
I am also looking forward to crab dishes this season at Pesce and Fish. Do you have any favorite Dungeness Crab dishes?
Today marks the beginning of the "What do Food Bloggers Really Eat" challenge as posed to us by Sam. She's asked us to challenge ourselves to photograph everything we consume over the next week and post the photos next week. I'm participating because the last time I did something like this, I feel it affected some rather large changes in my eating habits.
This week's going to be a bit out of control as I am travelling and staying with a couple of different families, but we'll see how it goes. (Hopefully I'll do better than I've been doing at NaBloPoMo - ha) Don't expect great food photography, as it will be very quick, unobtrusive snapshots of most things. And I'm not going to post everything I drink, as that would be boring and annoying for me and for you (coffee, coffee, water, water, water, wine, wine).
P.S. The pictures above are from this morning. The second shot from the left is a cup of clam chowder. I went a little pepper crazy, as I usually tend to do with their delicious chowder.
