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🍲Should you ladle up a healthy bowl of Maryland Crab Soup during the Super Hot Summer months?
When creating your summer crab feast menu, you may struggle imagining your guests enjoying a piping hot Maryland Crab Soup in 80°F weather. Most Americans search out ice cream and slushies but think counterintuitively. A piping hot soup actually cools the body. Foreign countries, known for hot climates routinely serve hot soup during the day and it’s expected. Look at Japan’s Miso Soup, as an example. Simply put, soup soothes the soul and cools the body. All the ingredients load the chef’s counter at their prime time. Hear the facts, and you’ll decide to follow suit with Maryland Crab Soup. Yes, a heat wave calls for a piping hot bowl, even with the peppery pop of bay spices.
One, the thermal aspect of the soup causes the body to naturally warm and then sweat, leaving the body to cool from the sweat’s evaporation. Of course, a light, brothy soup fits the bill rather than a think creamy Cream of Crab, for example. But then again Blue Crab Fans find all different ways to add the delicacy to their diet. Our crew suggests keeping the soup light. Maryland Vegetable Crab Soup fits the bill, boasting a tomato-base that lends itself to this light feeling. In fact, it serves as a good source of hydration. Dieticians claim electrolytes and fluids from the broth helps keep the body healthy in summer.
Two, what better time to use fresh, ripe ingredients? Maryland Vegetable Crab Soup showcases farm fresh vine-ripe tomatoes, sweet corn, and tender lima beans. All these ingredients pop with flavor and can easily pick from your backyard garden or farmer’s market down the road. The headliner to the soup, Maryland Blue Crabs fill the crab pots with fury during summer. This plentiful supply of salty-sweet, succulent meat stands ready for healthy bowls of soup. Blue Crab Lovers find all different ways to serve up an “Everything Blue Crab” meal. They throw a Summer Blue Crab Feast and serve bushels upon bushels of the delicacy, so they have extras for batches of Maryland Vegetable Crab Soup. Yes, that’s thinking ahead and even a few quarts can pop into the freezer for a later date, a win, win!
Go ahead and serve up a bowl this summer. You can still end the meal with an ice cream or accompany the bowl with a slushy beverage. Do know, however, no matter how you serve blue crabs, they are kings of the summer sunshine!
