I love this recipe - huge success at recent dinner party. I did make a few changes... I took others advice and added minced clams at last minute after turning off heat. I also added a little more liquid so that stuffing was completely saturated and moist - held shape when stuffing into clamshell. My local store only had a 1lb pack of chunk crab meat so I added the whole thing into the mixture. I also added a small pat of butter to the top of each clam and sprinkled with fresh chopped parsley and paprika before baking. The clams came out delicious! Reader also asked about cleaning the clamshells - I just run them through the dishwasher after each use and they come out very nice and clean.