Beware: Canned seafood

I tried a new recipe today. It looked so good! Seafood stuffed jumbo pasta shells in a Parmesan cream sauce. I noticed the first sign of disaster when I opened the cans of crab. Seriously, I have no idea why I bought cans of crab meat. That's what the recipe called for. Anyway, opened the two cans of crab meat (drained) and dumped in a bowl to mix with my other stuffing mixture. It sure didn't smell like crab meat. At that point, I really wondered if I should even make this recipe. I really was mad that I didn't buy fresh crab meat. It called for tiny shrimp, too -- so I grabbed a can of that while I was at the store (it WAS right next to the canned crab meat). I made the recipe like it called. It's not a bad recipe. But, the crab, shrimp mixture that you are supposed to stuff the jumbo pasta with tasted AWFUL! It really is upsetting. I will probably throw it away. If I make this recipe again, I will use real crab meat and I also thought to mix some cream cheese in with the REAL crab to stuff the shells with. That would probably be pretty tasty. MORAL of the story: seafood should always be fresh -- not even canned will do; except maybe for high quality canned tuna, salmon, or mackerel.

Because we had no leftovers from earlier (that we wanted to eat), I made vegetable soup tonight. I used frozen mixed vegetables instead of my usual canned veggies, so I hope against all hope that it tastes good!!!!