lobsters

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:44 am

How many here like lobsters?What is your favorite way to cook lobsters?

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:49 am

Ohhhhhhhhhh

I love lobster!

When we were kids (lobster being plentiful in Massachusetts), my mom would make bake-stuffed lobster.

I just like my boiled or steamed.

Yummy! :-4

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:53 am

cherandbuster wrote: Ohhhhhhhhhh

I love lobster!

When we were kids (lobster being plentiful in Massachusetts), my mom would make bake-stuffed lobster.

I just like my boiled or steamed.

Yummy! :-4Have you every had them cooked on a fishing boat in salt water? That is the best way for me?

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:02 am

I also like them broiled or steamed. One year my brother and sister in law went to Maine on vacation. They came home with a dozen fresh lobsters and we had a cook out!! That was great.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:08 am

LOVE THEM OH AND OF COURSE, LOTS OF DRAWN BUTTER AND LOTS

OF BUBBLY TO WASH IT ALL DOWN!!

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:17 am

fisher wrote: Have you every had them cooked on a fishing boat in salt water? That is the best way for me?

No Fisher I have not!

Tell us how it's done :-6

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:15 pm

cherandbuster wrote: No Fisher I have not!

Tell us how it's done :-6
We broil them the same way. It just that I think you get the most flavor when it's straight from the trap to the pot, cooked in salt water.

Grumpaz · Post by **Grumpaz** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:00 pm

I love lobsters and like many other like them broiled or steamed with lots of butter. As a matter of fact I like most all seafood. Dungeoness Crab is one of my favs but I won't pass on king crab or snowcrab.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:01 pm

I like to eat them, with lots of butter...............................

Shweet tatersalad · Post by **Shweet tatersalad** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:39 pm

Kathy Ellen wrote: I love lobsters boiled with lots of spices and french fries with gravy. I don't like lobsters who slip out of your hands before you put them in the pot. They run all over the place acting like a terrorist, just waiting to pinch you in the ankles.:
You need too put them asleep first.Then you can slip them into the pot.This way they don't tense up and make the meat tough.My family is from Canada/Maine and we have had many seafood cook outs.We used too dig a pit and put coals in it then seaweed and then lay lobster and crabs and steamers and cobs of corn in it and let it cook all day.Then we would ravage this pile of the oceans gifts and eat well.In my family you either found food or you became food,so I learned too eat all of the lobster.

Now when i get it,I get it fresh and steam it when I can.I never get lobster from a restaurant,they can't cook it right.It's a New england thing.

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:46 pm

Shweet tatersalad wrote: You need too put them asleep first.Then you can slip them into the pot.This way they don't tense up and make the meat tough.My family is from Canada/Maine and we have had many seafood cook outs.We used too dig a pit and put coals in it then seaweed and then lay lobster and crabs and steamers and cobs of corn in it and let it cook all day.Then we would ravage this pile of the oceans gifts and eat well.In my family you either found food or you became food,so I learned too eat all of the lobster.

Now when i get it,I get it fresh and steam it when I can.I never get lobster from a restaurant,they can't cook it right.It's a New england thing.

Yummy. Looks like i found a new way to cook lobsters.I must give this a try.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:37 pm

Boiled or steamed and lots of BUTTER :-4

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:12 pm

Kathy Ellen wrote: I love lobsters boiled with lots of spices and french fries with gravy. I don't like lobsters who slip out of your hands before you put them in the pot. They run all over the place acting like a terrorist, just waiting to pinch you in the ankles.:

G'day Kathy!!! And I know all about you and lobsters!!! And other merriment. At that great Key West party, having done your best to nick the Bloke I had my eye on!!! Girlfriends!!!!!!! - you ended up eating hamburger, after the lobster you caught and tried to use as a baseball bat on the coconut I lobbed from the palm tree at the Bloke in question when he was racing towards you wearing only a glint in his eye, got away and crawled back into the sea!!! The hamburger was French hamburger and so very good hamburger, but had originally been intended for Ernesto's cat!!! Anyway, that'll learn you!!

And what was in grave danger of getting pinched by this furious crustacean was a bit higher up Ernesto than his two timing ankles.

Did someone say BUTTER???

:yh_rotfl

golem · Post by **golem** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:30 pm

If people realised the things that lobsters eat they would not be so quick to eat lobster.

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:47 am

golem wrote: If people realized the things that lobsters eat they would not be so quick to eat lobster.I think most people know that a lobster is a scavenger. Many years ago lobsters was though of as a poor mans food.Now most can't afford them.That's how popular them have become.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:06 am

onsekiz wrote: golem, do Jews eat lobster, plum or see food that has a shell ? is it allowed in the religion?

Observant Jews won't eat shellfish or any food that comes from a pig.

No lobster, shrimp, scallops, bacon, ham and so forth.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:33 am

SnoozeControl wrote: They scream when you put them in boiling water... it's very disturbing. I haven't eaten lobster in 20 years because of that.
I've read that it's the air leaving the shell that makes that noise....but who knows?? :-3

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:36 am

yep, here's a bit of one article:

Lobsters don’t have vocal cords—they use pheromones to communicate. Wallace dispels the myth that lobsters scream when they are boiled alive, saying, “The sound is really vented steam from the layer of seawater between the lobster’s flesh and its carapace ¦ He notes that “the myth’s very persistent—which might, once again, point to a low-level cultural unease about the boiling thing.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:22 am

golem wrote: If people realised the things that lobsters eat they would not be so quick to eat lobster.

I know what they eat and I love them... yet I can't stomach catfish and

they are "bottom feeders" as well... wonder why that is? Just a perception?

People call crayfish "mudbugs" and they are little lobsters, sorta.

(Guess I have to be glad I'm Jewish descent and not observant!)

:-6

fisher · Post by **fisher** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:18 pm

What is the price of lobsters your area? Here in Nova Scotia this time of year they are around $9.00 lb.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:34 pm

My father was in the Navy and they used to fly their planes up to Maine. Consequently, we always had lobsters in our refrigerator, wrapped in seaweed and claws pegged. They SCARED me!

The best way to cook lobster is simply to boil them until they turn red and then crack them open & serve with melted butter.

If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life....

It'd be

................................... LOBSTER!