5 bay blue cocktail Recipes

vodka, blueberry schnapps, blue curacao, lemonade, cranberry juice

live blue crabs, two 3-oz packets zatarain s crab boil or 5 tbsp old bay seasoning, cayenne, table salt, lemons, quartered, onions, halved, potatoes (about 2 inches in diameter), heads of garlic (not separated into cloves), ears of corn, shucked, old bay seasoning *, or to taste, for sprinkling over boiled seafood, shrimp (about 30, preferably with heads ), accompaniments:horseradish cocktail sauce and french bread

jumbo lump blue crabmeat, mayonnaise or homemade aioli, seafood seasoning (recommended : old bay), scallions, finely chopped , about 3/4 of the green part, chopped fresh basil leaves, eggs, salt and pepper, fine bread crumbs (use just enough to help the cakes start to bind), canola-olive oil blend, cocktail sauce , recipe follows, for serving, flavored aioli , for serving, optional

bouquet garni (parsley, thyme, and bay leaf tied together), seafood seasoning (recommended : old bay), lemons, cut in 1/2, garlic heads, split in 1/2, whole blue crabs, cocktail sauce , for serving