Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Goal Week 4

Lobster Meal

Let me begin with saying that this is three days late. I went to a couple of stores looking for lobster. I didn't find any and the only place that I knew that did have lobster was at Market Street Grill, which would have been a fortune. After much debate I decided to just get crab. Lobster/crab...same thing right? I have never cooked either, so I decided that either way it would be something new.

I was extremely over stimulated at the crab counter. Too many different choices, too many shoppers, and one obnoxious old lady struggling over a rack of ribs almost did me in. After getting home and calming down I realized that Crab is so easy to cook! Who knew? After boiling it for just a couple of minutes I dished up the claws along with pesto pasta with artichoke heart and capers. I also toasted some herb bread with mozzarella cheese on top.

After we smashed the claws and scraped out the crab we decided that we are not seafood people. We ate it all, but I instantly had regret. Anthony was asking way too many unappealing questions such as "Its weird, how do they move? They have no tendons and stuff." A Minute later he mentioned how it kept falling apart and how we were going to find the poor crabbies remnants for days all over the house. It all just got to me, the nastiness of it all. The pasta wasn't a good paring with it either. Basically I ate a lot of bread. Luckily we had coconut gelato for dessert. After cleaning up Anthony came up to me and gave me a hug and said "Thanks for trying." It pretty much summed up the night. I tried my best....and although I feel like I accomplished something, I still feel bummed. Heres the pics.....

5 comments:

Alicia said...

Crab is sooo yummy. Though you'll probably not want me to eat it around you cause I tend to play with the legs while I'm eating them.

By the way they do have tendons. Didn't you notice the stringy white/clearish thing that stuck to the shell when you broke them apart. Plus the part you eat is the muscle. :) Now you can inform Anthony.

Life as Linds said...

Alicia-YUCK! GAG! I hate the whole muscle and tendon talk. I think I am gong to stick to chicken from now on.

The DeGiulio's said...

Yuck yuck sorry but Shad and I both HATE seafood of any kind and think its disguisting. The only thing I can really eat occasionally is a tuna melt with lots of mayo, pickles and cheese to make it not so fishy.

Jill said...

I love crab! Its super easy. And delicious. I shall get it one fine day.....

Khinna said...

Congrats on cooking that crab.