My birthday dinner is this week should I have crab or lobster?!
Answers: I guess the question is pretty simple my birthday dinner is this week and I cant decide if I want crab or lobster. I cant have both it will clash and Im having shrimp as an appitizer. What do you think?
Lobster...I love it and I have a variety of recipes:
Lobster Thermidor is a rich dish. It consists of lobster tail meat that has been cooked and removed from the shell and tossed with a bechamel sauce, then topped with Parmesan cheese and browned in a broiler.
2 1 1/2 to 2 pound lobsters
1/2 cup white vinegar per 8 quarts of water
enough water to completely cover lobsters
Place lobsters in a stockpot or other heat-proof container with a lid.
Bring water and vinegar to a rolling boil and then pour over lobsters and cover.
Let steep for 2 minutes for 1 1/2 pound lobsters and 3 minutes for 2 pound lobsters.
Remove from the pot with tongs, twist off claws with knuckles attached and return claws to pot for 5 minutes.
Twist off the tails from the body and pull off the flippers from the end of the tail.
Push the meat out through the large end of the tail. Remove the vein from the center of the tail.
After 5 minutes, remove the claws from the pot and crack open with the back of a knife. Use only enough force to crack the claw and loosen the meat.
Remove the meat from the knuckles. Reserve the tail shells and cut out the thin underside of them with scissors.
Bechamel Sauce: (Yields 1 quart)
1 yellow onion, small dice
1 small carrot, peeled and small dice
1 celery rib, small dice
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 cups scalded milk
Small bouquet garni
salt
freshly ground white pepper
pinch of nutmeg
pinch of cayenne
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 egg yolks
1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon
1/2 cup grated parmesan
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Melt butter in a saucepan and saute onion, carrot and celery until translucent.
Add flour and stir well until flour is completely incorporated.
Add milk 1/3 at a time, whisking well at each addition.
Add bouquet garni and dry seasonings, simmer for 15 minutes.
In a small mixing bowl, whisk together egg yolks and cream.
Take sauce off of the heat and whisk in cream and yolk combination.
Rough chop the lobster meat, place in a mixing bowl and toss with half of the hot bechamel.
Place lobster tail shells on a baking sheet or in a casserole dish, spoon mixture into shells and top with remaining bechamel and grated parmesan.
Bake in oven at 425 for 12 minutes or until parmesan is golden brown.
OR
Lobster Newburg is an old-style rich and creamy lobster dish that is traditionally served over buttered toast points. It may also fill crepes or be tossed with pasta. This is a basic recipe that may be dressed up with fresh herbs or tomatoes.
2 live lobsters (1 1/2 to 2 pounds each)
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup white wine
1/2 cup sherry or Madeira
2 cups heavy cream
salt
cracked pepper
pinch of cayenne
pinch of nutmeg
beurre manie (uncooked roux)
Cut the lobster into sections.
kill the lobster - how to kill a live lobster
Turn the lobster around and cut the tail and body in half long ways.
Remove the claws.
Along the center of the lobster are three kinds of viscera, the dark green are the stomach and intestine that can be scraped out and discarded, and the yellow green and coral are the tomalley and the roe which are delicious and may be left in.
Heat the olive oil in at least a 4 quart saute or sauteuse. Sear all the lobster pieces until bright red. Remove lobster from pan.
Deglaze the pan with white wine. Reduce by half. Add cream, Madeira/Sherry and seasonings, return the lobster to the pot and cook until the meat is cooked through, about 8 minutes.
Remove lobster from the pot and remove the meat from the shell.
Whisk in beurre manie a little at a time until sauce begins to thicken.
Simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes.
Adjust seasonings and serve over cooked lobster.
OR
2 live lobsters (approximately 4 pounds
each:)
Butter
Meat is always much tastier when the animal
is slaughtered while experiencing the most
intense terror of its life. So put a good 2.5
liters of water (per lobster) to boil and go
torture your lobster (be creative).
When the water is boiling, put the lobsters in
tail first. If you do it this way you get to
watch its expression. While the lobsters are
boiling, melt some butter in a pan and make
two little dipping dishes for yourself and your
dinner companion (you may add garlic to this
butter depending on what you plans are for
after dinner).
When the lobster has boiled for about ten
minutes (1.5 minutes per pound), remove
them from the water and put them on
separate plates. Put the dipping dish on the
same plate and serve.
Note: There are special utensils for eating
lobster, but it is much more interesting to
see how your dinner companion manages
without them.
Serves 2 people who wear fur and eat
lobster.
lobster!!!!
Lobster is my choice. Happy Birthday.
I personally think crab has better flavor than lobster.
Lobster!!!! It's much tastier!
--from a guy who grew up in Maine and hasn't had a lobster since he moved to Missouri 3 years ago!
Who cares if they clash have shrimp, crab and lobster!!!!! Okay so just have the lobster, it's my fave.
Lobster....Happy Birthday!
lobster
neither it's , cruelits all you rich idiods and people like urself who kill inoccent living things,and keep the torture goingon .,all for what,a hand ful of lobster meat or crab!!
you supposed to help nature not kill it. maybe you need some torturing and you'll feel what its like..you'll get urs in the end,by the way i work in a hospital,and what they dont tell you,seafood,will cause you problems in the end..
Lobster.
have both.. and don't mind that loon angelbid. in a hospital alright, a big one with thick bar's and padded rooms, and she doesn't work there either
lobster!! yuuum
Lobster - of course!!!!!!!!!!
Crab Cakes. Happy Birthday!!
you should be ashamed of yourself! killing an innocent living animal just so you can have your birthday dinner. those poor animals are thrown into a pot of boiling water while still alive. you can hear their screams as the life boils out of them. terrible!!! angel is so right