"Crab" Cakes

Ever since we started vacationing in Jamaica, crab has been off the menu. Once you spend a day watching the scurry across the beach stealing fruit from your tropical drinks, it seems wrong to eat them.



Unfortunately, I love crab cakes. Luckily, I found a recipe for zucchini cakes that promised to taste like crab, and they came pretty damn close.


The cakes take a while to put together, but are really simple.

First you have to grate the zucchini:



Then salt the zucchini, and let sit to draw out as much liquid as you can. Add chopped onion, egg, bread crumbs and old bay seasoning





Then shape into patties, and let sit in the refrigerator to firm up. They are supposed to be pan fried, but I just baked on a cookie sheet to save time, calories and cleanup.

I served with some Sriracha mayonnaise (man I love this stuff now), bulgar, and broiled tomatoes.


Again, maybe not the prettiest, but pretty damn tasty (and no crabs were hurt during the making of this meal).