A jumbo soft-shell crab was perfectly pan-crisped, tasty and fresh.
Of all the dinner offerings only one was disappointing: the so-called tempura wrapping around a jumbo soft-shell crab appetizer was more a batter-thick deep-fry than a true gossamer tempura.
With Manuel Torres, the factory foreman, keeping an eye on 120 pounds of pasta being cooked and another tub of marinara, a team of four women were stuffing cooked jumbo shells of pasta with a ricotta and Romano mixture using an automatic, computerized injector, and by 2 p.m., after filling shells all day, they were near the finish line.
"My sisters collected the jumbo shells from Breezy Point, where we had a cabana," Joseph Furey Jr. explained.
Students design a car out of a piece of lasagna and assorted pasta such as ziti, manicotti and jumbo shells.
Each plate is different: the bowl containing a jumbo Pacific oyster mimics the frilly shape of the oyster's shell, while the oyster itself lurks beneath a spume of plum-wine-flavored gelatin.
Intraoperatively, extraction of the acetabular shell revealed serious bone loss, so we decided to use a jumbo acetabular component (Procotyle, Wright).
But a jumbo crab cake is practically all meat, a thoroughly satisfying mouthful of pure flavor, while a fried soft-shell crab, a special appetizer one day, was delicately crisp and delicious.
Somebody made a jumbo salad.
You need a jumbo mortgage.
A jumbo jet? George Bush?
