CRAB-LICIOUS

AMONG THE MANY surprisingly good bites I downed at NASFT's food show last month was a succulent sample of the San Francisco restaurant's fresh-frozen Scoma's Crab and Shrimp Cakes, morsels of goodness to be sure. I've tried Scoma's crab cakes wharfside, at the restaurant, and they are very good. The packaged versions, cooked  on a portable hotplate on site at the food show, were a tad more oily than those I had at the restaurant, but they were nothing less than delicious.
 And let's give them a little break here; it can't be easy to cook crab cakes non-stop for seven hours on a portable heat unit in a convention center!  I would have had seconds, but I had about 10,000 other bites to swallow, so I had to resist. Find scomas at http://www.scomasretailfoods.com/.
AND: just in case you were wondering, yes, that oil factor is highly controllable when you heat these up at home. I used a spray olive oil in my non-stick pan. The result: Perfection. Find Scoma's Crab and Shrimp Cakes in freezer sections, or track them down in your own neighborhood by inquiring at http://www.scomasretailfoods.com/. They're about $10 per cake if you have them shipped.