We will continue our tour...making a stop in Maryland. Maryland looks absolutely beautiful! The above picture is of Baltimore's Inner Harbor. I read that there is plenty of shopping, eating, and a very cool aquarium. If the city is not for you then you could visit Susquehanna State Park (pictured below). Hike, camp, or you could take a picnic lunch and enjoy the scenery!
Lots of Maryland recipes involved lobster, clams, crab...I decided on a crab dip. This would also be a good recipe for those football parties!
Crab Dip
Ingredients
- 11 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 (6 ounce) cans crab meat, drained and flaked
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 (1 pound) loaf round, crusty Italian bread
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, onion, mayonnaise, crab meat, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Spread mixture into a 1 quart baking dish.
- Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven. While the dip is baking, cut a circle in the top of the bread, and scoop out the inside to create a bread bowl. Tear the removed bread into pieces for dipping.
- Remove baked crab dip from the oven, and stir well. Spoon the mixture into the hollowed out loaf. Place bread bowl and chunks of bread on a medium baking sheet, and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Serve hot.
Curious about what kind of house Edgar Allen Poe lived in or his graves? Yes, that was graves...plural. What about seeing a giant fiberglass pineapple or a tiny church...10x12 feet? Then there is always the story of the three lead coffins....Maryland has it all and more!
A few years ago my family took a vacation west. Knowing we were going to have an extremely long drive, I searched for unique stops along the way... Google Roadside America...it provided several memories. Most of the time they were small stops so we could take some pictures and stretch our legs....but it was fun. Check out the site to see what might be in your area.
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