(Hannah's) Crab Salad

It's been kind of quiet here lately .. well, the week after Christmas we mostly ate all the leftover food we made for Christmas, so that didn't involve much cooking at all. We did manage to do a little something for New Year's Eve, but my blogging was fairly efficiently derailed by my Windows' crashing. Thus, with some delay, I'm going to start putting some posts up again here.

Years ago I was invited to a dinner at some friends' place, and we were served this delicious crab salad for starters .. I immediately demanded to know the recipe and the host graciously complied.

I hadn't had it for quite a while and decided that it would be nice for our New Year's Dinner.

Ingredients:
- 4 tbsp sour cream
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- salt & pepper
- 1 shallot
- 12 cornichons
- 1 red bell pepper
- green peas
- 120 g (4.2 oz) crab meat (1 drained can)

The sour cream, mayonnaise, salt and pepper was stirred together and added the drained crab meat. I used frozen peas, but if you have fresh peas they would of course work quite nicely as well. The most time consuming part of this was chopping the shallot, cornichons, and bell pepper: All have to be chopped quite finely.

This can be served immediately (or at least when the peas have thawed) on toast with a leaf of lettuce, but also stores well in the fridge for several days.

Since it was New Year's Eve we had it with sparkling wine.