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The crab-fishing captains of Discovery Channel's Tuesday reality hit "Deadliest Catch" supply a lot of tasty shellfish to tables around the world. So, when it's time to sit down to eat between pulling Bering Sea crab pots on the F/V Time Bandit, what's on the menu? "Out on the boat," says co-captain (with brother Andy) Johnathan Hillstrand, "we all cook together. There's seven of us guys, and guys are actually pretty good cooks. Everyone knows their own specialty. Somebody knows how to make spaghetti, or I make chili. Mine is just plain chili; it's not real spicy. If you want to add Tabasco, it's there. "But I can cook almost anything. I make a nice salad, with vinaigrette. Basically, we'll buy full filets, and we'll trim them ourselves. We eat crab, of course, a lot of fresh crab. A lot of these boats, they eat pizza pockets, and they don't eat right. If you don't eat, you can't go without sleep. So it's your job to eat. "If some guy doesn't like to eat breakfast, I make him do a watch, so he'll learn really quick to eat breakfast." As to whether they go into their storage tanks for crab, Hillstrand says, "We pull them right out of the pot. We'll pull out the big ones. The legs are a foot and a half long. You can't even put them on a plate. You guys don't see those crab; they go right to Japan. "We'll cook up a whole filet mignon, three big 12-pound crabs, and we'll have a feast." The Hillstrands like to put a crab spin on favorites. "I like to do a crab Benedict," Johnathan says. "You use crab instead of the ham. That is so good. Then, what we do on the boat, we'll have a big crab feast. Then the next morning, you'll mix a cup of crab with a couple of eggs and just scramble it – oh, my God, it is so good. "My brother does crab melts – just two eggs, English muffins, cheese. It's so good. We love crab. I'll order crab at restaurants, king crab, and they'll go, 'What the hell are you doing?' 'I'm hungry for crab.' Or I'll get a steak. "It all starts for me, what your ingredients are. You can't make a bad steak taste good. So, it's all ingredients. Like your seafood, with good seafood, you can't go wrong unless you overcook it." The crab captain may love his catch, but there's another crustacean that gets his taste buds excited. "My favorite food is prawns," he says. "The more shellfish, the better. I eat those raw. I can't wait to get up to Alaska, to Ketchikan Bay. They have prawns up there, and we eat them raw, and scallops too. I could live off prawns." BY KATE O'HARE Johnathan Hillstrand cooks the 'Deadliest Catch' BEST PATRIOTIC MOVIES Tom Cruise Tom Hanks "Miracle" 8 The Goshen News • TV Spotlight • July 1-7, 2013 BY JAY BOBBIN "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) The purity – or what should be – of politicians' missions is ideally represented by James Stewart, as a newcomer to the nation's capital, in director Frank Capra's classic drama. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) It wouldn't be the Fourth of July without a television showing of this biography of one of entertainment history's greatest patriots, showman George M. Cohan (Oscar winner James Cagney). "Holiday Inn" (1942) The Fourth of July is among the occasions celebrated at the title site in this Bing CrosbyFred Astaire musical, much of which would be reconfigured into Crosby's "White Christmas" 12 years later. "1776" (1972) It doesn't get much more patriotic, nor more Fourth of July-appropriate, than the screen version of the stage musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. "Top Gun" (1986) Patriotic to the extent of being labeled by some as "jingoism," Tom Cruise's adventure smash still is cited by many as one of the best recruiting ads the American military ever has had. "The American President" (1995) As he would on "The West Wing" and "The Newsroom," writer Aaron Sorkin infused his script with his love for America into virtually every thought President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) expressed. "Independence Day" (1996) The title has multiple meanings in this sci-fi epic, especially since it's July 4 when the human race decides to fight back against alien invaders. "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) Military men's dedication to one another, as well as to their country, is an overriding theme of director Steven Spielberg's stirring World War II drama about a unit sent to locate a missing soldier. "The Patriot" (2000) With that name, it should be little surprise that Mel Gibson's drama about a farmer forced into the Revolutionary War appears on this list. "Miracle" (2004) Just as patriotism swept America with the 1980 Winter Olympics win by the U.S. men's hockey team, so it does in this dramatization of the event starring Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks.

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