Shrimp Boiler Bags at Bag O’Crab in Salinas, California by Ruth Paget
Cold weather in Salinas, California always makes me want to eat seafood at one of our local seafood restaurants like Bag O’Crab, a chain restaurant specializing in spicy, Cajun seafood from Louisiana.
My husband Laurent, daughter Florence Paget, and I picked up a seafood lunch to fill up on iodine and flavor in the rainy, cold (low 40s) weather, which I think makes seafood taste better.
The three of us had shrimp boiler bags that were all a little different. I like ordering take-out on DoorDash, because there are several options to choose from:
-Laurent ate an all-shrimp boiler bag with mild garlic butter sauce
-Florence ate a shrimp boiler bag with potatoes and corn on the cob in mild garlic butter sauce
-I ate a shrimp boiler bay 6 sections of spicy Louisiana sausage in mild garlic butter sauce
Bag O’Crab cooks the shrimp in their shells for extra flavor and provides diners with plastic gloves to remove the shells. The flavor of the shrimp was briny and spicy without being hot.
The strong spice mix paired well with Italian Peroni Nastro Azzurro lager beer on the cold day.
After lunch, I took a nap with the window cracked to let in humid, cold air as I slept like a baby before setting up some lifelong learning projects for the 2026 New Year.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
