Thursday, January 1, 2009

Our New Year's Eve Dinner (with pictures!)

Well, as I mentioned in a previous post, we had a seafood dinner for New Year's Eve.  Here are the victims:


Our cat Basil had to investigate...

 
    
Q-ee however, decided he wanted to keep a safe distance....
 
 
  
When we gathered up the lobsters we found this - I am presuming it's lobster pee??  Now that's something I've never seen before!  Weird, huh?
 

 

We have a few special things for eating lobster - here are the cutesy plates (FYI, we do not need, nor do we follow their instructions for "How to Eat a Lobster). 

  
These butter warmer things are really handy - the tea light underneath keeps the butter nice and hot.

 
  
And here is a shot mid-way through our dinner...
    
  
About this same time we heard a "rustling"....
 
 
   
I guess Basil kitty could smell something good in the bags that the lobster and crab came in!
  
Eating lobsters and crab legs is a messy business.  A great thing about eating at home is you don't have to worry about getting butter or "lobster water" on your fancy blouse or silk ties - and you can get up lots of times if you want to wash your hands.  I will rarely order a whole lobster at a restaurant because it's just so hard to eat without making a mess.  Besides the dripping butter, there's always water that comes out of the shells and there's usually a bit of white "goo" also.  Also, at home I like to cut open the body and wash out the "tamale" - at the restaurant they leave it, and I don't care to eat it.  (I forget exactly what that stuff is anyway - sometimes it's green and sometimes it red - don't tell me, I don't want to know, I kinda just like to block that part out.)
   
Here's the "aftermath"...
  
  
I question why anyone would want to read this little "photo essay" of our New Year's Eve dinner, but hey, thanks for humoring me! :-D
 
The end.
  
Posted by none other than Carole K at 4:25 PM
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11 comments:

  1. Wow, what a spread!!! I think I've eaten lobster off the shell once in my life. I look at it this way, if it takes longer than one second to get food in my mouth, it's too much work.

    I would ignore all the little "deposit" myself. Best not to think about it.

    Happy new year!
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  2. I'm guessing your Lobsters got scared and left the pee when they saw your cat getting closer! LOL!

    Great pics!

    Dr. Rus
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  3. Carole, I knew I should have come to your house for supper last night! Re: the pee,... well, I guess if I thought I was going to be dropped head first into boiling water, I might do that myself! It's been too long since I have had lobster, somehow a "lobstah roll" at a local eatery just isn't the same. Your New Year's Eve meal looks like heaven to me!
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  4. Hi, I read it! LOL Happy new year! :o) Love lobstah!
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  5. Looks like a great meal. We had oysters, crab, scallops, & shrimp. And lots of butter! You have to have lots of guts to drop those lobsters in. Never done that.

    BTW, we have a gray cat that looks like yours.

    http://sophie.weborglodge.com
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  6. Wow, what a festive holiday dinner. I loved your plates and your butter sauce pots too. The whole table setting was so much fun.
    I've never seen lobster pee before either.
    Happy New Year to you!
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  7. Looks like a great time.

    This is a perfect post for this week's Family FotoFun Friday found here.
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  8. Muahaha, that third picture just cracks me up!
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  9. I liked reading this post. The only time I had real lobster was when I ordered a seafood plate at a Chinese restaurant in New York City! Never had it fresh off the critter, though, lol. Maybe I'll give it a shot someday. I'll have to return here for tips. ;)

    P.S. $2.99 was a GREAT deal for lobster! I'm going to have to look out for that, next year, at our local Hannaford.
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  10. When I worked in a seafood restaurant ages ago, we would take the lobsters out and race them on the carpet when the place was empty, LOL. Neat weather station!
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  11. Kathy - I know, it IS a lot of work to get your food, but, it's worth it once in a while! And the butter, oh the butter!

    Interesting little known fact is that the Pilgrims ate a lot of lobster because they were so plentiful - so much so that they were sick of it because they had it so often!

    Dr. Rus & Cedar - LOL! I'll be you're right - the lobster either peed in fright of the cat or the big pot of boiling water!

    Babette - Heh, thanks for reading - and Happy New Year to you too!

    Tonka Boy - Wow, your dinner sounds even better than ours! And, I let DH do the "dropping into the boiling water" - I also wouldn't have the heart to do it. And your Sophie is so precious - she does look just like our Basil!

    Mountain Woman - thanks for the compliments - and now you've seen lobster pee too! :-P

    Diana - thanks, I'll check out the Family Foto Fun Friday.

    Janett - heh heh, you must have cats too?

    Rebecca - Yeah $4.99/lb WAS a great price. Each year we scour the flyers to see who's got the best price, seems like they often go on sale for a good price at New Year's.

    Also, FYI, for those that are too squeamish like me, most supermarkets will steam them for you for free - you don't have to face the trauma of putting them into boiling water yourself if you don't want to. :-)

    City Mouse - lobster races, huh? I've heard a lot of things about what goes on at a restaurant, but that's a new one! Some of those critters can be pretty mad...
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I read each and every comment, and though I don't always get a chance to respond, I enjoy reading (and pondering) what you have to say. Thanks for your 2 cents! :-)

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