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Adrian T. Cheng Harrington A. Lackey Jack Williamson Judith E Braffman-Miller Linda Hacock Tony A. Grayson
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non-atomic particles. In March 2020, a team of scientists announced that they have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the dark matter in the Universe during its Big Bang birth.
Shedding New Light on The Universe's Shadowland Judith E Braffman-Miller
We live in a mysterious Universe-most of which we are unable to see. What is it made of, and has its composition changed over time? The starlit galaxies, galaxy clusters and superclusters are all embedded within invisible halos composed of transparent material that scientists refer to as the "dark matter." This mysterious substance creates an enormous, invisible structure throughout Space and Time--a fabulous, fantastic tapestry woven of heavy filaments composed of this "dark" stuff, that is thought to be formed from unidentified and exotic
Scientists think that up to 80% of the Universe could be dark matter, but despite years of investigation, its origin has remained a puzzle. Even though it cannot be observed directly, most astronomers think that this ghostly form of matter is really there because it does dance gravitationally with forms of matter that can be observed--such as stars and planets. This invisible material is made up of exotic particles that do not emit, absorb, or reflect light. A team of nuclear physicists at the University of York (U.K.) are now proposing a new particle candidate for this ghostly material--a particle that they recently detected called the d-star hexaquark. The d-star hexaquark is made up of six quarks--the fundamental particles that normally combine in trios to form the protons and neutrons of the atomic nucleus. Raise A Quark for Muster Mark
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The Irish novelist James Joyce (1882-1941) had a drunken character in Finnegan's Wake raise a quart of dark beer to toast a man named Finnegan who had just died. He mistakenly said "raise a quark for muster Mark". The American physicist, Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019), who was one of the scientists who proposed the existence of the quark in 1964, thought it was so funny that he named this sub-particle after the drunken host. The RussianAmerican physicist, George Zweig, also independently proposed the existence of the quark that same year. A quark is a type of elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to create composite particles called hadrons. Hadrons are subatomic particles of a type that includes protons and neutrons, which can take part in the strong interaction that holds atomic nuclei together. Indeed, the most stable hadrons are protons and neutrons-the components that form the nuclei of atoms. Because of a phenomenon termed color confinement, quarks have not been directly observed or found in isolation. For this reason, they have
been found only within hadrons. Because of this, a great deal of what scientists have learned about quarks has been derived from studying hadrons. Quarks also show certain intrinsic properties, including mass, color, electric charge, and spin. They are the only known elementary particle in the Standard Model of Particle Physics to display all four fundamental interactions--also termed fundamental forces--the strong interaction, the weak interaction, gravitation, and electromagnetism. Quarks are also the only known elementary particles whose electric charges are not integer multiples of the elementary charge. The types of quarks are referred to as flavors: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. The heavier quarks quickly experience a metamorphosis into up and down quarks as the result of a process called particle decay. Particle decay refers to the transformation from a higher mass state to lower mass states. For this reason, up and down quarks are stable, as well as the most abundant in the Universe. In contrast, strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks can only be churned 6
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out in high energy collisions--such as those involving cosmic rays or particle accelerators. For every quark flavor there is a corresponding antiquark. The antiquark antiparticle differs from the quark only in certain properties, such as electric charge. The antiquark antiparticles have equal magnitude but an opposite sign. There was little evidence for the physical existence of quarks until deep inelastic scattering experiments were conducted at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1968. Accelerator experiments have provided evidence for the existence of all six flavors. The top quark, first observed at Fermilab in 1995, was the last to be discovered. The Universe's Shadowland It is often said that most of our Universe is "missing", primarily composed as it is of an unidentified substance that is referred to as dark energy. The mysterious dark energy is causing the Universe to accelerate in its expansion, and it is thought to be a property of Space itself.
The most recent measurements indicate that the Universe is composed of approximately 70% dark energy and 25% dark matter. Currently, both the origin and nature of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy are unknown. A considerably smaller fraction of our Universe is composed of so-called "ordinary" atomic matter. "Ordinary" atomic matter--which is really extraordinary-is comparatively scarce. Nevertheless, it is the material that accounts for all of the elements listed in the familiar Periodic Table. Despite being the tiny "runt" of the cosmic litter of three, "ordinary" atomic matter is what makes up stars, planets, moons, and people-everything that human beings on Earth are most familiar with. It is also the precious form of matter that caused life to form and evolve in the Universe. On the largest scales, the Universe looks the same wherever it is observed. It displays a bubbly, foamy appearance, with extremely massive and enormous filaments composed of dark matter intertwining around one another, creating a web-like structure that is referred to as the Cosmic Web. The ghostly, transparent filaments of the 7
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great Cosmic Web are traced out by myriad galaxies blazing with the fires of brilliant starlight, thus outlining the immense, intertwining braids of dark matter that contain the galaxies of the visible Universe. Enormous, cavernous, dark, and almost empty Voids interrupt this web-like pattern. The Voids host few galaxies, and this is the reason why they appear to be entirely empty. In dramatic contrast, the massive starlit filaments of the Cosmic Web weave themselves around these almost-empty Voids, creating a fabulous, complicated, braided knot. Some cosmologists have proposed that the entire large scale structure of the Universe is really composed of only one filament and a single Void twisted together in an intricate and complex tangle. Enter The d-Star Hexaquark The d-star hexaquark is made up of six quarks. These fundamental particles normally combine in trios to form the protons and neutrons of the atomic nucleus. Most importantly, the six quarks in a dstar hexaquark create a boson particle. This indicates that when a large number of d-star hexaquarks
are present that can dance together and combine in very different ways to the protons and neutrons. A boson is a particle that carries energy. For example, photons are bosons. The team of scientists at the University of York propose that in the conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang, a multitude of dstar hexaquarks could have met up and then combined as the Universe cooled down from its original extremely hot state and then expanded to give rise to a fifth state of matter--what is termed a BoseEinstein Condensate. A Bose-Einstein Condensate is a state of matter in which separate atoms or subatomic particles, cooled to near absolute zero, coalesce into a single quantum entity--that is, one that can be described by a wave function--on a near-macroscopic scale. Dr. Mikhail Bashkanov and Dr. Daniel Watts from the Department of Physics at the University of York published the first assessment of the viability of this new dark matter candidate. Dr. Watts noted in a March 3, 2020 University of York Press Release 8
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that "The origin of dark matter in the Universe is one of the biggest questions in science and one that, until now, has drawn a blank."
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"Our first calculations indicate that condensation of d-stars are a feasible new candidate for dark matter and this new possibility seems worthy of further, more detailed investigation," he added. "The result is particularly exciting since it doesn't require any concepts that are new to physics," Dr. Watts continued to comment. Co-author, Dr. Bashkanov, explained in the same University of York Press Release that "The next step to establish this new dark matter candidate will be to obtain a better understanding of how the dstars interact--when do they attract and when do they repel each other. We are teaching new measurements to create d-stars inside an atomic nucleus and see if their properties are different to when they are in free space." The scientists are planning now to collaborate with researchers in Germany and the United States to test their new theory of dark matter and hunt for d-star hexaquarks in the Universe.
British Detective Murders Dark Vengeful Space Vampire Tony A. Grayson Detective Geoffrey Wilshire held his breath while he pressed his back deeply into a corner nook of the Waverly building. He had no time to reflect on what he had done. If the detective did not survive, it would not matter. No, it would matter! He was the fifth generation of fine British detectives to bear the Wilshire name, and he had a moral 9
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obligation to pass that name, untarnished, to his son. The boy was out there, somewhere in London, hidden by his faithful nanny, Prudence. The hair stood up on the back of Geoffrey's neck. His skin felt prickly, his hand - sweaty, especially the left hand that palmed the Glock 17 that he had used to dispatch the Space Vampire. These were his own symptoms of fear, and the detective was glad to have them just now. Over time, Geoffrey had developed control of fear into a well-honed art. Always, there was a reason for fear. Some talent of the body made the hair stand up. What is it? What was it this time! Serenely, the famous London fog crept along the ground to inhabit this borough in the storied city. It wrestled with the darkness to claim the prize of concealment for itself. This was a lucky thing for a man who did not want to be seen. Movement! Something moved along a sidewalk in the fog-shrouded darkness. The detective could see a bit of swirl in the mist as a body passed slowly down the sidewalk. It could be some tipsy drunkard trying to make his way home. It might be a blue-collar working man just done
with his shift. Or, it might be one of his brothers. Only a detective would do to find another detective who had strayed from the thin blue line of the law. Geoffrey looked down at his Glock 17, the one that the police department had specially made for him, a left-sided shell ejector - for a left-handed detective. Wordlessly, he mouthed, "A real man does not shrink from his destiny. He goes out to meet it!" Quietly, deliberately, British Detective Wilshire stepped away from the building wall to fall in behind the swirling motion on the sidewalk. The one in front of him, whoever he was, made no sound, not even the tiniest footfall. Geoffrey concentrated on his own stealth. A street lamp up ahead should grant him a peek at the one he followed, and he so wanted to have that look before there was a confrontation. He broke concentration! By yearning for a bit of luck, he had tricked his mind off of the hunt. Now, another part of his brain took over, the one that self-analyzes in order to solve a problem. He drifted back to the moment when the Space Vampire had appeared in an instant. The spaceman startled 10
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Geoffrey, when he loomed over him menacingly, to trigger the detective's razor-sharp instinct to kick in! Geoffrey had the Glock out and he fired it three times into the spaceman. Looking round, he found no witness. He checked the body, and found no weapon. All about him, he heard windows go up and some lights flicked on. The good people of London wanted to know who had spoiled the tranquil evening with gunfire! Geoffrey twisted his penlight flashlight on to shine a light on a dead man's face. The mouth was agape. The spaceman had fangs! He was a vampire! EzineArticles.com/9357954
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Every chance meeting, every friendship, every love, every choice we make, changes us inside and out in ways we neither see nor notice until sometime later.
Choices Fran Watson You can do and you can be whatever you want. You have the power, and the right, to make the changes. There are many choices to be made as daily life goes by. There are changes in our world and choices in our lives. There are those who come and those who go. There are those who enrich, and those who drain. There are thoughts which improve our daily grind, and there are thoughts that depress us and bring us down.
All of a sudden, we encounter an old circumstance, but we handle it in a new way a better way. The choices and the changes we made have caused us to grow, to improve, and we can move on unafraid. You have one life to live, don't let it count for naught. You have too much to give, Choose to give it!
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Sellout, whose record to sell every house to the first homebuyers earned him disdain among his colleagues at his real estate firm. He won the firm's #1 seller award every year. However, he had been known to use devious ways of selling to the first home prospector by lying about some of all of the homes' features.
The Mystery Switch Harrington A. Lackey It was the perfect house for Frances Yankedwire. Located in New Hampshire, it was everything the octogenarian wanted - a house in a busy neighborhood with lots of young families. As a matter of fact, the previous owners who occupied it was a middle age couple with three young kids. They sold the house and vacated it in late June of this year. Frances was the first and only one to look at it on a hot day on the first of July. Frances looked through the house with her real estate agent - Barney
But Ms. Yankedwire wasn't being duped. Barney showed all of the two-floor brick home's features. Barney didn't have to invent lies, because Ms. Yankedwire loved the home and as much as she looked at it, the more she wanted to sign the deal. However, she couldn't see that well and her hearing was terrible. Barney showed the woman the garage, which held a secret he wouldn't share. He pointed the lady to three switches located on the garage's right side. "Here are your switches. This one closest to you turns on the garage lights. The one next to it turns on the outside light right above the outside garage door. Now, don't touch the last one, 16
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because... it turns on the water sprinklers around the front lawn." Barney had lied about that last switch; he wasn't about to reveal what the former owners hadn't taken down in January. Ms. Yankedwire didn't pay too much attention, because anything Barney told her would be something good about the house. "I'll take the house," she exclaimed. "You will?... That's wonderful!" Now, all Barney had to do was try to hurry the lady out of the house in the hot weather, into his hot car and drive to the agency's office before she changed her mind. After arriving at the agency, she signed on the dotted line and within a week she moved in. She celebrated her first night by drinking a glass of sherry while she called her son to tell him the good news. After she hung up the phone, she walked to the garage and decided to push all the switches off, which is what the agent told her not to do with the last switch. But she went upstairs anyway and went to sleep.
When she turned that last switch on, some long white plastic blob emerged from her lawn. It blew up slowly until it yelled, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" Then music began to loudly play "Frosty the Snowman". It blew up to where his comical face made the float reach eight feet in the air. At the same time, over 1000 Christmas lights of every color came to life on the roof, blinding a young man passing by while riding a motorbike. As a result he lost control of his bike and fell off the road. Blinking Christmas lights turned on all around the yard in the bushes and trees. More lights lit up around the front door. Meanwhile, Frosty stopped singing and immediately afterward, Elvis' voice began blaring, "I'll have a blue Christmas without you." But, Ms. Yankedwire didn't notice any of this. She was practically deaf, and only heard a little music, but dismissed it as just some loud young neighbors. Also, she couldn't see much from the light show going on in her own yard. Then she quickly went to sleep oblivious to all the Christmas hoopla going on in
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her yard, but most of her neighbors were shaken out of their wits. The Christmas show went on and finally shut off at 3 AM. Ms. Yankedwire got plenty of sleep until she woke up at 8 AM. She went downstairs in her robe and fixed her a small portion of bacon and eggs. A few hours later, some neighbors walked over to welcome her to the neighborhood. They politely told her about the Christmas festivities that went on outside last night, but she couldn't hear what they were saying. She just pretended to understand, nodding her head because she thought it was the polite thing to do.
into their own hands. Ten of them killed Frosty and tore him out of the ground. They ripped off all of the lights out of the trees and shrubs and damaged the speakers that played all of the Christmas music. Then a few climbed up a ladder and yanked off all of the lights. Meanwhile, Barney, Mrs. Yankedwire's former real estate agent passed by in his car. He looked and laughed heartily at the scene. He said to himself, "Ah another happy customer."
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That evening, Ms. Yankedwire's Christmas show came on again. This continued throughout the rest of the week. When the neighbors had enough, they called the police and complained. When two cops arrived at the old lady's door, they tried to explain what was happening to her home, and if her "show" continued, they would arrest her. She still didn't understand. That night when, once again, her house reminded the neighbors about Christmas, they took matters 18
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back from San Francisco every six months since, with mail and supplies." "And what was the experiment?" Dan demanded eagerly.
Astounding Stories: The Doom from Planet 4 – part 4 Jack Williamson
The girl turned her face to him. "I'm Helen Hunter, as you seem to know," she began. "I came here with my father five years ago to observe an eclipse of the sun. When it was all over, and the ship called to take us off, he decided to send the results of our observations by one of the other men. He wanted to stay here to carry on another experiment--the one that led to that machine on the hill. Part of the other men were willing to stay. The yacht left us here, and has been
"Have you ever looked at Mars through a good telescope?" she countered. "Then you must have seen the canals--straight dark lines running from the white polar caps to the equatorial zone. All scientists did not agree as to what they were, but nobody could suggest a natural origin for them. "My father was one of those who thought that the canals were fertile, cultivated strips, irrigated with water brought down from the melting ice-caps. Irrigation systems meant intelligent life upon the planet, and his experiment was an attempt to communicate with that intelligence." "And he succeeded?" Dan was astounded. "Yes. The means was simple enough: other men had suggested it years before, in fact. Any fairly bright light on Mars--such as the 19
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beam of a searchlight directed toward earth--would be visible in a good telescope, when the planet is favorably situated: it follows that such a light on earth should be visible to an observer with a similar instrument on Mars. "It was possible, of course, but unlikely, that Mars would have intelligent inhabitants still ignorant of the telescope. It was also possible that their senses would be different from ours--that, if they saw at all, it would be with a different part of the spectrum. Father took the chance. And he succeeded. "The call was simple: merely three flashes of light, repeated again and again. We used a portable searchlight, mounted on a motortruck, and such as is used in the army. The three flashes meant that we were on the third planet of the solar system. The answering call, from the fourth planet, should be four flashes, of course. "For three nights we kept signaling. One of the men watched the motorgenerator, and I operated the searchlight, swinging it on Mars and off again, to make the flashes. Dad kept his eye screwed to the
telescope. Nothing happened and he got discouraged. I persuaded him to keep on for another night, in case they hadn't seen us at first; or needed more time to get their searchlight ready. "And on the fourth night poor Dad came out of the observatory, shouting that he had seen four flashes." *
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to catch on pretty soon; in a few days Dad was receiving pictures of the same sort. "Rather a slow way of communication, perhaps. But it worked better than one might think at first. In a month Dad had received instructions for building a small machine like that big one on the hill. It is something like radio--at least it operates with vibrations in the ether--but it's as much ahead of our radio as an airplane is in advance of a fire-balloon. I understand a good bit about it, but I won't try to explain it now. "And in the next three years Dad learned no end of things from the people on Mars. One queer thing about it was, that they never let us see them on the television apparatus, no matter how many of their scientific secrets they gave us. Dad and I exhibited ourselves, but I don't know yet what the Martians look like--though I have made a guess. "By the end of the third year they had showed Dad how to make one of those metal things--"
"Like that one that jumped at me?" Dan broke in with a shudder. "Yes. They seem almost alive; but they are machines, like our robots, and controlled by the radio apparatus. The eyes use photoelectric cells, and relay what is before them to the Master Intelligence." The girl spoke these last words in a low tone, shrinking involuntarily. She paused a moment, then shrugged and continued. "The first machine did not obey my father. It was controlled by signals that came from Mars, over the big station on the hill. And it went to work, making more apparatus, building more machines, enlarging the receiving station. It worked in obedience to the Master Intelligence on Mars! "That was a year ago. The last time the yacht called, my father and the other men still hoped to control the machines. They let her go back without us. The machines tolerated us a while; paid no attention to us; they were busy working mines and building huge, strange things 21
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that must be flying machines; the plateau on the other side of the peak is crowded with them. "For the machines are preparing to leave the island! They are going to conquer the world for the Master Intelligence on Mars! "Months ago my father discovered this, and realized that he had loosed doom upon the earth. He and the three other men planned to destroy that big station on the peak. All the signals to the machines are relayed through that, from Mars. The machines seemed to pay no heed as they made their preparations. "Then one night, about three weeks ago, they tried to dynamite the station." The girl's shoulder trembled; she paused to brush a tear from her eye, then went on hastily, in a voice grown husky with emotion. Dan felt an odd desire to take her slight form in his arms and comfort her in her grief.
disks that throw the green fire: we had not seen them before. And--well, all four of them were killed." Dan handed her the disk of green crystal he had taken from the thing that had attacked him. She examined it silently, then went on. "Dad had left me in bed, but I heard an explosion. I think the bombs went off when the green fire struck them. I knew what had happened, and got out of the house just before the machines arrived. They wrecked the place with their green flashes. "And for the last three weeks I've been hiding in the jungle, or watching for ships. Three times I've raided the ruins of the house for something to eat: fortunately it didn't burn, like your ship. And that's all, I suppose--except I'm awfully glad that you got ashore." "Thanks," Dan said, earnestly. "And what are we going to do now?" *
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for all humanity. On the television, I've seen enough of Mars to be sure that it is a world of machines, controlled by one Master Intelligence. And even that may be a machine. We make machines that compute the tides and carry out other computations that are almost beyond the power of the human mind: why couldn't a machine think? "The Master Intelligence of Mars plans to add the Earth to his domain. Unless we can do something to stop it, in a few years the world will be overrun with gigantic robotmachines, controlled by force from across the gulf of space. Humanity cannot resist them. Imagine a battleship pitted against that green annihilating ray, and all the other science of an elder planet! "Life is to be blotted out! The Master Intelligence of Mars will rule two worlds of mechanical monsters!" Dan sat in a dazed vision of horror to come, until Helen straightened up as if shaking off a mantle of fear, and smiled heroically, if a bit wanly.
"Now you must eat your bread and sardines, to give you strength to fight for humanity!" she cried, with a laugh that she strived, not too successfully, to make cheerful and gay. Obediently, he began to eat, finding an excellent appetite.... It was several minutes later that he fancied he heard a whirring and crackling in the brush behind them. He sprang to his feet in alarm. "It can't be far back to where I left the machine," he cried. "Do you suppose there's danger that--" The mechanical ears of the metal things may have picked up the sound of his voice: but in any event, green flame flashed about them on the instant. Feeling a sudden protective impulse, Dan started toward Helen. That was his last recollection, before what seemed a terrific concussion swept him into the abyss of unconsciousness.... *
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His first thought, when he awakened, was of the girl. But he was alone in the silence of the canyon. He sat up, realizing that many hours had passed, for the air was growing cool again, and the sun was low behind the peak at the head of the ravine. The huge, mysterious machine of the purple ring and the vibrating white needle were blazing splendidly. He took more detailed stock of his immediate surroundings. The tangle of brush that had sheltered them had been cut away by the green annihilating ray. Charred stumps remained to show where it had fired bushes beyond the trail. His own shoulder was blistered, a hole was burned in the sheet wound about him, and the hair was singed from the back of his head. Suddenly trembling with horror, he looked about for anything to show that Helen had perished by the ray. Discovering nothing, he breathed a sigh of relief. "She must be still alive, anyhow," he muttered. "And I've had another
lucky break! The ray was too high to get me. They must have left me for dead." Presently he became conscious of torturing thirst. He retired through the brush, along the rocky wall of the canyon. By sunset he came upon a little natural basin in a rock, half full of rain water. It was none too clean, but he drank his fill of it, and felt relief. Looking up the canyon, he could see the great mechanism on the peak, gleaming in the dusk. Intenselyglowing purple mist clung about the great metal ring, and the slender, delicate needle swung below it, still vibrating, still throbbing with brilliant, white radiance. It pointed at the red eye of Mars, which had just winked into view. Dan stared at it a long time. "It all sounds crazy," he muttered, "but it isn't! The Master Intelligence of Mars, she said, is controlling the mechanical things through that! The doom of the Earth is coming through that white
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needle! If only I could smash it, somehow!" He looked down at the white folds of the sheet that draped him, and clenched his hands impotently. "No gun! Not even a pocket-knife. Nothing but my bare hands!" He bit his lip.
Tasty Crab Recipes You Can Enjoy on The Go Adrian T. Cheng
You don't have to enjoy crab and other seafood only during big meals - they can be enjoyed as snacks or even when you're always on the go. If you're craving for seafood, particularly crab meat, then you're in the right place! Read further for 3 easy yet fulfilling crab recipes! Hot and Creamy Crab Dip What you need: 1/2 kilogram jumbo lump crab, shell removed 1 clove garlic, minced 25
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1 cup grated pepper jack cheese 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese 1 cup cream cheese, softened
The Best Butter and Garlic Crab Legs What you need:
1/4 cup minced onion
1/2 kilogram king crab legs, sliced in half to expose the flesh
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup sour cream
4 tablespoons salted butter, melted
1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 tablespoon hot sauce
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Lemon slices
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
In a bowl, combine garlic, melted butter, parsley and lemon juice. Arrange the crab legs in a baking tray and drizzle with butter mixture. Reserve some of the mixture for dipping. Bake the crab legs in a preheated oven (375F) until heated through, about 5 minutes. Serve with dip and lemon slices - it's best to squeeze lemon juice over crab before consuming.
1/2 teaspoon black pepper Using a hand mixer, beat together cream cheese, mayonnaise and sour cream in a bowl. Add the garlic, cheeses, onion, lemon juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper to the bowl and stir until all ingredients are well-combined. Fold in the crab. Transfer mixture to a baking dish and cook in a preheated oven (325F) until bubbling and golden brown, about 20 to 25 minutes. Serve with fresh vegetable slices, crackers or chips.
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3 tablespoons chopped crab meat 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar Sweet and sour sauce Dash of salt Combine the cream cheese, crab meat, sugar and sweet and sour sauce in a bowl. Season with salt and stir until ingredients are wellcombined. Spoon about a teaspoon of the mixture in each spring roll wrapper and wrap. Spray a baking sheet with olive oil then arrange crab sticks on the sheet. Cook on a pre-heated oven (375F) for about 12 minutes or until crisp (turning once halfway through). You can't miss these tasty crab recipes - try them now!
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