Executive Chef Alan Kantor
MacCallum House & Grey Whale Bar & Cafe
MENDOCINO, CA
1 1/4 pound Dungeness freshly picked crabmeat
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon each coarse chop tarragon, Italian parsley and green onions
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1. Mix all ingredients lightly together. Adjust seasoning with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Tangerine Granita
3/4 cup freshly squeezed tangerine juice
2 tablespoons organic sugar
1 teaspoon Cointreau
1. Place sugar in sauté pan; add 1/4 cup tangerine juice. Stir over low fire just until sugar is melted. Pour everything together into small pan and place into the freezer.
2. When it starts to freeze up, begin scraping with a fork to make flakey.
Salad
12 pitted Moroccan dry-cured black olives
12 kumquats
3 cups chopped frisée lettuce, not packed
4 tablespoons Stella Cadente Meyer Lemon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1. Slice kumquats and olives. Toss all ingredients together and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Divide the tangerine granita into the bottoms of 6 chilled Martini glasses. Do the same with the salad, placing on top of the granita into a nest shape. Place the crab on top of that and garnish with a crab leg and sliced olives and kumquats.