Crab Cakes and Red Pepper-Salmon Pasta

This Sunday, for Valentine’s Day, Tom made a delicious dinner for us, Crab Cakes and Red Pepper Salmon Pasta. I really wanted more crab cakes after eating them at Carson’s on my bday the previous weekend. Here’s how ours turned out:

Beauties!

Crab Cakes

2 tablespoons olive oil

6 green onions, chopped

3/8 cup olive oil

1 (6 ounce) can canned crabmeat,

drained

1 egg

1 tablespoon mayonnaise

1 teaspoon dry mustard

8 ounces buttery round crackers,

crushed

1/2 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning TM

salt to taste

ground black pepper to taste

1 cup dry bread crumbs

Directions:

1.	Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a skillet over high heat. Saute green onions briefly until tender; cool slightly.
2.	Combine crabmeat, sauteed green onions, egg, mayonnaise, dry mustard, crushed crackers, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, Old Bay seasoning, salt and pepper. Form into 1/2 inch thick patties. Coat the patties with bread crumbs.
3.	Heat 1/2 cup oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Cook cakes until golden brown on each side. Drain briefly on paper towels and serve hot.

(This recipe is from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe-Tools/Print/Recipe.aspx?RecipeID=19490&origin=detail&servings=4)

Then, for the main course, we had Red Pepper Salmon Pasta. Here’s how it looked: