Title: Crab Sauce
Categories: Pasta-pd, Sauces-pd
Yield: 4 Servings

12 oz Peeled deveined shrimp,
-finely chopped, or lump
-crabmeat, picked over
2 tb Unsalted butter
1 tb Tomato paste
1 tb Dry white wine
Salt, cayenne pepper
2 Kirby cucumbers, seeded, cut
-into 1/4-inch dice
2 tb Finely snipped chives
8 oz Cooked squid ink pasta
1 c White Sauce, recipe follows

--------------------------------WHITE SAUCE--------------------------------
3 tb Butter
1/4 c Flour
4 c Milk
Salt and pepper

Saute shellfish in butter. Stir in tomato paste, dry white wine and
evaporate liquid. Add white sauce, bring to a boil and season to taste with
salt and pepper. Fold in cucumbers and chives and serve over ink pasta.

Yield: 4 servings

WHITE SAUCE: Melt butter. Whisk in flour and cook a minute. Slowly add
milk, whisking vigorously. Simmer for minutes or until thick and smooth.
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Cool to room temperature, with
buttered paper over top to prevent a skin from forming. Transfer to
containers and freeze until needed.

Yield: 4 cups

PASTA MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #PS6545, Copyright, 1997, TV FOOD NETWORK,
G.P., All Rights Reserved

McBusted by Gail Shermeyer <4paws@netrax.net> on Mar 31, 1997

Recipe by: PASTA MONDAY TO FRIDAY SHOW #PS6545 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest
V1 #550 by 4paws@netrax.net (Shermeyer-Gail) on Apr 04, 1997