This Sunday is Mother's Day and I am sharing with you my recipes that I have every year. Mother's Day is generally the start of soft shell crab season, soft shell crabs are blue crabs that have "molted" or lost their shell, so the entire crab is eaten. It is a very simple recipe so even if your hubby is not much of a cook I am sure it is something he could handle.

I think cobb salad, goes perfectly with the soft shell crab. If you don't know, the cobb salad was made popular by Bob Cobb who owned the famous Hollywood Brown Derby Restaurant back in the 1950's. I actually have The Brown Derby Restaurant book, great old photos of the stars and original recipes.

Mango's and blueberries are also in season. The blueberry buckle is my mother-in-law's recipe and is so good with the lemon sauce. Don't be intimidated by a mango, look for a soft one with a bit of color on the skin and remember they have a very large pit so just cut around it. Check out how to cut a mango on the link. Hope you enjoy the photos of them that I posted. Thank you to my friend Pam, we are having so much fun photographing the food for my upcoming cookbook. Hoping for late June, stay tuned...

Lastly, visit my friends shop Diamond Fresh Seafood in Lake Zurich to pick up your soft shell crabs (see link and call ahead).

Enjoy the beautiful weather and for those of you that have children, Happy Mother's Day!

Go Hawks!