Crab Filled Ravioli

One of my favourite fish dishes is baked fish filet (cod), covered with a mixture of creme fraiche and cheese. Superb dish.
But, if it's a fish of fine quality I like not to mix with anything, just s&p, and possibly some herbs.

Crab meat and finely diced onions,water chestnuts,button mushrooms in a beanase(?) sauce mixture stuffed into empty crab shells topped with a liberal layer of parmesan cheese and baked until golden brown is simply scrumptious.
Very popular dish is seafood resturants around these parts.

violates all the rules of having cheese with seafood

No such rule in 'Cuisine de battybilly - ooh lala'.

Skate wing with garlic cheddar cheese.... King prawns on a bed of Stilton.... Two of my faves.
Stuff the rules ! !

DS - Actually I enjoy seafood in a cream sauce. I don't find the taste of cream overpowering at all and with my size the butter sauces are just not a very good idea; hence using non-fat 1/2 &1/2 (yes, I know, a sacrilege) in place of cream.

I can relate Stan! Currently eating grapefruit half with my toast (which has Smart Balance spread on it). Now I have an urge to make Crab Imperial with lot's of cheese over it baked til the cheese is crispy brown. And I can't get decent crab around here!! Why is life so cruel sometimes!?

which has Smart Balance spread on it

Smart Balance? They should give it away free in pubs (bars) in Glasgow! If I eat a tablespoon per glass of wine is it guaranteed I won't fall over, sashac?

hence using non-fat 1/2 &1/2 (yes, I know, a sacrilege) in place of cream.

AAAARRRRGGG. Do you know what non-fat half and half is? HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. It is, by no stretch of the imagination, low-fat or healthy. Either use the real thing or skip it.

Sorry, I get on my high horse with this stuff. The "diet" industry has given us even worse alternatives.

Trixie,

I TOLD you I don't want to know. It is actually low fat, although it may not be low calorie or healthy.

If I eat a tablespoon per glass of wine is it guaranteed I won't fall over

Well tony, they won't give you your money back if you do but I'm sure you'd get a lot of mileage out of the jokes you can make about that damn Smart Balance not working after you fall off of the stool. :)

Sorry trixie but I have to agree with Stan - for those of us who sit at a desk all day and have low metabolisms and love sugar and fat it's really hard to keep our weight down. So we try little tricks now and again in an attempt to not be huge. sigh :)

For the past 4 months I've been on a porridge and yogurt diet, so after reading your post I gave myself an evening off by making lobster, salmon and coriander ravioli, I didn't do the cream though, just a drizzle of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon. It tasted unbelievable, but then anything would after for months of porridge, I was 210lbs and now I'm 154lbs, a bit saggy in the flesh department but feel quite good.