Save Those Crustacean Shells to Make a Sauce Base
by Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Claire Lower to from Lifehacker on (#567AZ)
This weekend, my boyfriend and I made crab sauce-a red sauce full of delicious crab. There were huge pieces of Dungeness meat, yes, but the true hero of the sauce were the crab shells, which we mashed and simmered with onion and fennel to make an intensely crabby base.