Sunday Dinner Recipes: Crab Louie with Toast Points

Let's start with a blessing from Psalm 19:14
 
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”

It's shop for Sunday Dinner recipes. This decadent 3-course Sunday dinner recipe with Crab Louis from Wolfgang Puck, pairs with Golden Toast Points, Applesauce Cake, and suggestions for wines. You can certainly add more courses.

Dress your well planned menu with a nicely decorated table centerpiece, beautiful placemats polished silverware and sparkling glassware. The most important ingredient is you, a welcoming host.
Here's how to set the table. Whether or not, you are a person who cultivates good food and wine, these dinner recipes are a whole lot of elegant. Put candles on the table, put on some soft music and relax at home with food and family.

This Crab Louie recipe is perfect for a light summer dinner. You could serve this Crab Louie on endive. Endive is in the lettuce family that includes radicchio, escarole and frisee. It has a crisp texture and a sweet, nutty flavor with a pleasantly mild bitterness. It can be enjoyed served raw or cooked.

For the U.S. market, crab meat comes in different grades: Mainly, Jumbo, Lump and Claw. Jumbo is generally unbroken meat with a brilliant white color. Lump grade is generally broken pieces of Jumbo; and Crab Claw is a dark pink color and is a stronger, less expensive choice.

Crab Louie
Serves: 4
8 ounce jumbo crab
3 tablespoon Thousand Island or Russian dressing
2 tablespoon chives
1 vine-ripened tomato, diced and well drained
1/4 red onion, finely diced
2 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 pinch of sugar
1 teaspoon chopped parsley
16 red curly endive leaves
1 whole avocado, diced

Horseradish Panna Cotta:
2 cups fresh horseradish, grated and peeled. Grate in a food processor.
1 cup crème fraîche
2 cups heavy cream
Salt and sugar to taste
4 sheets of gelatin or 1 tablespoon of powdered gelatin

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan, except for gelatin. Bring to boil. Strain mixture. Taste for seasoning, and re-season if necessary. Add gelatin as indicated on package. Pour into individual molds or ramekins. Chill overnight.

Pick through the crab meat thoroughly and remove any shells. Place the crab in a small bowl, and fold in the dressing and chives. Combine the tomato, onion, olive oil, salt, pepper, sugar, and parsley in a small bowl to make a nice relish.

Layer in Stainless Steel Food Rings Mold Set, 3-1/2-Inch; start with mild horseradish pana cotta, next, spoon small mound of crab, creamy diced avocado cubes, top with endive leaves and unmold on plate. Garnish with baby artichoke bottoms and baby tomato halves.

Optionally, create a flower pattern on individual plates with the endive leaves. Place a small mound of the Crab Louie mixture in the center. Layer with creamy diced avocado cubes on top of the crab. Layer the tomato mixture on top of the avocado. Serve.

How to Make Toast Points	Dessert, Applesauce cake

Dinner Wine, White, Chardonnay, Blanc du Bois, Semillon
Dessert Wine, White, Orange Muscat

Dessert wines are typically chilled and served in a lovely wine glass. Keep the serving size at about half the usual pour, two to three ounces.

The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) is proud to play a role in the continuing success of the Texas wine industry. Find these Texas wines at Kroger, HEB, Randall’s, Fiesta, Whole Foods Market and Central Market.

In recent studies, the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) assigns a number of health benefits to regular, moderate wine consumption. The most widely reported benefit is The French Paradox, a theory that credits the drinking of red wine for the low incidence of heart disease in France – despite a famously high-fat, high-cholesterol diet.

Scientists note wine contains antioxidants and resveratrol, elements believed to be helpful in the prevention of certain diseases. Red wine consumption (and to a lesser degree, white wine) is linked to a number of health benefits, including: heart disease prevention; reduced risk of certain cancers; lowering bad cholesterol; weight loss; improved brain function; controlling glucose and insulin levels; and lowering blood pressure.

Most studies cited here recommend consumption of one or two glasses of wine a day with meals, noting the detrimental effects of over-consumption.

Save this recipe for that special meal, as a surprise for date night.