{"id":7167,"date":"2012-11-17T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2012-11-16T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:15:00","slug":"appetizer-blanquette-of-oregon-dungeness-crab-with-riesling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/appetizer-blanquette-of-oregon-dungeness-crab-with-riesling\/","title":{"rendered":"Appetizer: Blanquette of Oregon Dungeness Crab with Riesling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving and the holidays quickly approaching, appetizers are a delightful way to entertain guests. Fifteen appetizer recipes that use wine as an ingredient are available at\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/recipes\/food.php<\/span>. Another appetizer recipe, Blanquette of Oregon Dungeness Crab, is below. The recipe calls for Riesling, so it is a good idea to serve Riesling with the dish.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Blanquette of Oregon Dungeness Crab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This recipe is from Stoller Family Estate was created by winemaker Melissa Burr.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4 as an appetizer<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ingredients:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1lb. Dungeness Crab Meat, picked clean of any shells<br \/>\n1 stalk celery, minced fine<br \/>\n1 small shallot, minced fine<br \/>\n\u00bd cup Stoller Estate Exclusive Riesling<br \/>\n1 cup heavy cream<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon white pepper<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon curry powder<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon cayenne pepper<br \/>\nzest of \u00bc lemon<br \/>\nsalt to taste<br \/>\n2 tablespoons minced chives<br \/>\n10-20 toast points<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Directions:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.Place crab in clean dish towel and squeeze excess water out, then set aside.<br \/>\n2. Place shallots, celery and wine is small sauce pan and reduce until almost dry.<br \/>\n3. Add cream to sauce pan and cook over low-medium heat until thick and bubbly (15 minutes).<br \/>\n4. Season with salt, curry, white pepper and lemon zest.<br \/>\n5. Add Dungeness crab and heat through.<br \/>\n6. Spoon over toast points and sprinkle with chives.<\/p>\n<p>Recipe provided by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stollerfamilyestate.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Stoller Family Estate<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Oregon. Created by Melissa Burr.<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Appetizer: Blanquette of Oregon Dungeness Crab with Riesling\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=7167\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Thanksgiving and the holidays quickly approaching, appetizers are a delightful way to entertain guests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[1333,477,69,413],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-appetizers","tag-holidays","tag-recipes","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}