Roasting brings out the wonderful, nutty flavor of Brussels sprouts and turns many into fans. Best, it takes about 18 minutes to roast them. Brussels sprouts are terrific with roast chicken, roast turkey or as part of a vegetarian dinner.
Description. Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs as their name suggests. In fact, they are more closely related to spiders, ticks, and scorpions. The brown horseshoe-shaped helmet of the shell protects the crab from predation by sharks, turtles, and sea gulls.escription. Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs as their name suggests. In fact, they are more closely related to spiders, ticks, and scorpions. The brown horseshoe-shaped helmet of the shell protects the crab from predation by sharks, turtles, and sea gulls.
Horseshoe crabs â or to be more precise, their incredible, baby blue blood â are used to test for bacterial contamination, thus saving countless lives each year during medical procedures. The only trouble is, we have to catch a quarter of a million horseshoe crabs each year to do this, and then we have to drain their blood. Horseshoe crab blood is unusual for two reasons. Firstly, it gets its incredible blue color from the copper used to carry oxygen around the crabâs body, in the same way the iron in hemoglobin makes our blood red.