How do I cook a lobster tail?

[DrEntropy]

A few years back, our local A&P (now defunct here) got a shipment of live Maine lobsters. They weren't selling at all and the butcher was ready to pitch them. He told me to make an offer for the whole case, 22 pound-and-a-half live (albeit tired) lobsters. I said 20 bucks and he bit. So I grabbed them up and went home to figure out what to do with my bounty. Took my giant custom-made crawfish pot out and boiled them all at one time. My wife and I were drunk with lobster, ate every one over the next 2 days. I think we were throwing lobster meat at each other near the end. I cannot look at a lobster again.

Throw me in that briar patch! That's about as good as winning a lottery in my book.

'smits worked in a Miami crab & seafood restaurant for a while back in our salad days. I'd fly down from PA on th' redeye, she'd haul me from the airport and we'd sit in her apartment with bibs and wooden hammers, gorge on blue crab & butter by the bucket. The employees got to take home the "overstock" at closing. UUummmmmmmm!!!

 

[TR6oldtimer]

King crab rules! You don't even have to cook it. The rest is just appetizers.

 

[terriphill]

Back when we were first married and on a shoestring budget there was a fish place here in LR that was all you can eat buffet. On Tuesday night he had King crab legs on the buffet...my husband and I probably ate our weight each week! MMMMMM It was such a treat.

 

[Stewart]

baz, free the lobsters!, free the lobsters!, free the lobsters!, so i can catch em.

Just make sure to free them in the right ocean. A few people this year caught maine lobsteres off of the socal coast. I guess someone just didn't want to hear them scream as they go into the boiling water.

 

[Banjo]

Banjo, if you like crab meat, why don't you like "bugs"

never said I "liked" crab meat, just said I could eat it if it was in with somthing else.
If it's still in it's shell, forget it! It's a rediculious phobia. I know. But it goes back to my childhood. I do not like crustaceans. Swimming in the creek was always an effort (even though I did it a lot) as Crayfish ar on that list.

only recently have I taken to eating shrimp.(again, definatly not ones that need to be shelled)
Any shrinks in the house?

 

[tony barnhill]

I wrote this journal entry when Jerri & I were out on Sitka Island:


<span style="font-style: italic">"Now for the best part of the day. After we left the grocery, we stopped and bought 2 live Dungeness crabs right off the boat. When we got back to the RV, I went out to the rocks at the edge of the ocean and cracked/cleaned them. Then, I scooped up a pot of ocean water for Jerri to boil them in. Melted butter and wine. Hmmmm-good!</span>

 

[zblu]

We have whats called a western rock lobster, different from yours, no claws, size for cooking is 1 lb upwards, 1 lb is sweeter and more tender, cook whole, get water boiling, add a pinch of salt, add lobster, when water starts boiling again give it 6-8 minutes, remove, rinse, and twist tail from carapace like your unscrewing a jar, about 3/4 turn does it, rinse the yellow stuff off (this is what gets made into a commercial fishbase fyi), press hard on sides of tail, should crack the lobster back,remove shell, peel back small strip of meat, like a prawn, remove tract, slice tail into bits across grain, put on fresh buttered bread while warm and add black pepper,salt, vinegar, open the cold beer and enjoy

 

[DrEntropy]

Well THAT certainly got me t' droolin' all over th' keyboard, blu.

Thanks a ton. :smirk:

 

[Tinster]

I wrote this journal entry when Jerri & I were out on Sitka Island:


<span style="font-style: italic">"Now for the best part of the day. After we left the grocery, we stopped and bought 2 live Dungeness crabs right off the boat. When we got back to the RV, I went out to the rocks at the edge of the ocean and cracked/cleaned them. Then, I scooped up a pot of ocean water for Jerri to boil them in. Melted butter and wine. Hmmmm-good!</span>

Bring some of them crabbies with ya. They are selling here for $10 to $15 each.
That's a tad high on the value/ $$ dollar scale for dinner.

d

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Lobster here is going for around $25/lb, dungeness when in season $4/lb whole which when cleaned puts it up there at $8-10/lb. King crab is at $9.

 

[tony barnhill]

Saw a headline in a magazine today that delcared "crawfish once a poor man's food is now a luxury"!

 

[DrEntropy]

I consider 'em "comfort food" or "peasant fare"... and I'm a peasant. It irks me that food has become "trendy". Sushi should be FREE! Who in their right mind would eat uncooked fish otherwise (if ya weren't starving)?!?!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

I consider 'em "comfort food" or "peasant fare"... and I'm a peasant. It irks me that food has become "trendy". Sushi should be FREE! Who in their right mind would eat uncooked fish otherwise (if ya weren't starving)?!?!

Yeah, but have you tried ceviche? Ain't nothin' better!

 

[tony barnhill]

I consider 'em "comfort food" or "peasant fare"... and I'm a peasant. It irks me that food has become "trendy". Sushi should be FREE! Who in their right mind would eat uncooked fish otherwise (if ya weren't starving)?!?!

Yeah, but have you tried ceviche? Ain't nothin' better!

Jerri was wondering aloud what kind of foods we'd eat in Honduras...guess I can tell her "ceviche", eh Mickey?

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Jerri was wondering aloud what kind of foods we'd eat in Honduras...guess I can tell her "ceviche", eh Mickey?

Maybe - have to be careful where you eat it and how it's prepared!

But, just to whet your appetites, check these out - our favorites:

https://honduras.com/hondurastips/english/sanpedrorestaurants.htm

La Espuela
Chef Mariano's
Pat's Steak House
El Fogoncito
Don Udo's

And the Cafe Skandia is at the hotel where we're staying.

Bottom line: Don't eat the week before we go!

Mickey

 

[tony barnhill]

Hey, they have a Cafe du Monde in Honduras!!

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Hey, they have a Cafe du Monde in Honduras!!

Yeah, but not even close!

 

[tony barnhill]

But what do they mean by 'Honduran specialities'?

 

[Tinster]

Tell me it isn't so!!!!

<span style="color: #009900">McDonalds. Although the last of the big hamburger franchises to open in Honduras, they are making up quickly. Two locations in town, one in the zona viva district, almost across from Wendy's and the other in the Mega Plaza mall area. So if your having a Big Mac Atack, fear not, the cure is at hand in San Pedro Sula!
</span>

Ah Ha!! Trying to fatten up the Hondurans to expand
the heart attack pharma med sales!!

I'll stick to my arroz con pollo y habichuelas blancas.

Oh my, how I love lechon!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tony barnhill]

Tell me it isn't so!!!!

<span style="color: #009900">McDonalds. Although the last of the big hamburger franchises to open in Honduras, they are making up quickly. Two locations in town, one in the zona viva district, almost across from Wendy's and the other in the Mega Plaza mall area. So if your having a Big Mac Atack, fear not, the cure is at hand in San Pedro Sula!
</span>

Ah Ha!! Trying to fatten up the Hondurans to expand
the heart attack pharma med sales!!

I'll stick to my arroz con pollo y habichuelas blancas.

Oh my, how I love lechon!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, Dale, my Spanish isn't too good - but that's the biggest chicken I've seen in a long time!!

arroz con pollo y habichuelas blancas = rice with chicken and white beans

Oh, wait, I just saw the last line where you love 'pig'....hehehehe...I'm gonna have trouble with langiage on this trip!