Maryland seafood, seafood like no other!

This entry goes out to one of the main reasons I came back to Maryland, for its amazing seafood! Maryland is the only place to get real steamed Old Bay covered crabs. They are so incredibly good especially when you're enjoying them at a big table with friends and family with a few pitchers of beer. Jason and I somehow missed having this last season so this season we better do it at least twice to make up for it. How tragic it is to miss out on the Maryland Crab experience when you live here!

I am also a huge fan of how they cook shrimp here covered in Old Bay and sauteed onions. And when Maryland gets shrimp salad right it's nothing but extraordinary. There's a dive bar in Parkville called Linway that has forever made the best shrimp salad sandwiches. Whenever my family came here to visit that was always a mandatory stop. Jason and I splurge and get one every so often. It's a must.

A couple days ago Jason, our friend Andre, his girlfriend Cassie, and I went to eat at a restaurant called Bertha's Mussels in Fell's Point. I had heard great things or at least I had seen many locals with bumper stickers that promoted their mussels. I had to see for myself if they were in fact all that. They were in fact the best mussels I'd ever had. You can get them with different dipping sauces. We had one with a Guinness and Old Bay, one with a butter and capers, and one with sour cream and chives. All were stupendous especially the one with butter and capers. For my main course I went with the shrimp in a sherry cream sauce. The cream sauce was to die for. I have never tasted anything so good in my life. There's a possibility I might be over-exaggerating, but I don't know. Everyone else couldn't stop taking spoonfuls of my sauce either, I really think it was Heaven on a plate.

This entry once again goes out to all the fantastic chefs and the amazing seafood traditions of Maryland, I thank you dearly for the years of making my mouth water! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the crab cakes, the vegetable crab soup, and the cream of crab soup, you are also loves of mine.