Thinking Ahead to New Year's

I'll get next week's menus done in any downtime tomorrow (yikes), but one special in this week's crop of grocery deals already has me intrigued. Sunflower is advertising a 16 ounce jar of crab meat for $6.99, wow! Haven't tried the product, but at that price, I will. It started me thinking of a recipe Mark Bittmann published some time ago in the New York Times for pasta with crab. In budget-conscious times, and especially with the deal at Sunflower, that strikes me as a suitable centerpiece for New Year's Eve dinner!