Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. I see that this weekend’s out, but as this takes shape more, count us in. I might even bring some of the wine.
Ok, this thread makes me want to try lobster. I’ve never had lobster before, and I’d like to try it. So I’m going to head to the fishmarket today and buy one! What should I look for in a lobster? How do I cook it? Any tips, recipes, and/or advice you could give this Lobster Virgin would be appreciated.
Ooh! A New England Dopefest with seafood and beer! I’m in…even thogugh I hate almost all seafood. Yeah, I know, I’m from New England and I hate seafood (though in my defense I am from the only New England state without a coast.) I do enjoy clams, though, so I’ll be suckin down those guys like popcorn and drink the chowder like it was beer…as well as drinking the beer like it was beer, cause it is.
You are a Vermonter, so you get the Special Mountain-Area Resident Dispensation. Truly fresh seafood was a little hard to get up there until the Interstate system was created.
Reminds me. I was in Switzerland recently (Hi Arnold) and kept seeing Sushi restaurants. Um, maybe I biased because the fishing boats land their catches 20 minutes from my hometown, and an hour from here, but there’s no way I was going to have any of that. Sushi is supposed to be, no needs to be, the freshest possible. Unless they were flying it in from Holland and Italy daily, Ick.
(nice tie back into the OP, huh?)
Damn you! I hate you people! Now you have me wanting lobsters, and there are none anywhere in sight until possibly tomorrow morning, when if I choose I can go buy live ones in Chinatown. But I want a lobster noooooow!
The only way you can make it up to me is to send one from your New England Dopefest, live, however it is that they ship live lobsters. With garlic butter.
Reminds me of my best childhood friend’s wedding: she married a guy from lovely Waldoboro, Maine, and the wedding was in his hometown. It was a blast! Stroke of Genius #1: have your bridal party rent out an entire B&B the night before the wedding, and stay with them. Stroke of Genius #2: have your family stay at a different hotel, several miles away, so that never the twain shall meet.
Stroke of Genius #3: instead of a stuffy, formal rehearsal dinner, have the entire wedding guest list have a lobster bake in the groom’s parents’ backyard, involving at least 1 lobster and accoutrements (clams, mussels, onions, potatoes, corn on the cob, etc.) per person, and insanely decadent amount of melted butter. And don’t forget the bonfire! I’ll never forget it.