Spaghetti al granchio e salmone

After dining out for a few days in a row, I finally had time to cook up something myself. It was snowing, I was going nowhere and so I could continue my focaccia-baking experiment (on which topic I will return later this week). I also managed to prepare a dish from "The silver spoon - Pasta".
I was really looking forward to a simple, smooth pasta, as I had some ... interesting (?) encounters with too large lumps of wasabi the previous nights. Why do I always think that I can handle more wasabi than anyone else? And why doesn't wasabi *just*  burn in your throat, but does it cause your nose to explode? Light flash, tears in your eyes, the whole nine yards... Maybe I shouldn't be so greedy...

Anyway, "The silver spoon - Pasta" it was going to be. Huge bestseller in the store, 360 recipes, but I still hadn't tried any one of them. This mistake has now been corrected by cooking this pasta with crab, smoked salmon and vodka. I'm a big fan of cooking with alcohol! Great excuse to drink some while cooking and oh... it also tastes really good in this dish...
The original recipe uses linguine, but I've used spaghetti, which also works well.

Ingredients (serves 4):

50 gr butter (1.8 oz / 0.2 cups)
120 gr tinned crab (drained) (4.2 oz / 0.5 cups)
4 plum tomatoes, skin removed and finely chopped
80 gr smoked salmon, cut into small strips (2.8 oz / 0.3 cups)
splash of vodka
275 gr linguine or spaghetti (9.7 oz / 1.2 cups)
salt

Melt the butter in a pan. Cook the crab meat for a few minutes on low heat. Add the tomatoes and continue to cook for another 10 minutes, while stirring occasionally. Add the smoked salmon, a good splash of vodka and wait until the alcohol has evaporated. Stir and take the pan off the heat.
Cook the linguine / spaghetti in a generous amount of salted water until al dente. Drain, stir in the sauce and serve immediately.