Dinner thread...What's cooking...

[hardline]

Tempura fried shrimp , seafood ( lobster,scallop,baby shrimp ) newberg, Cesar salad, broiled haddock, and red tater salad.

I missed Friday fish fry , Am I over compensating ? ...........NAAAH !

sounds good, i want some.

 

[bill2ski]

There's always an extra plates worth just in case someone pops in.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Just finished nicely grilled mahi mahi, rice with cilantro salsa and salad. We shared a dozen little necks on the half shell while the fish grilled.

 

[hardline]

There's always an extra plates worth just in case someone pops in.

thanks

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

O.K. I'm back from the supermarket..and just cracked open beer #1..no buzz maintenence for me..I'll probably drink a beer every 15-20 minutes until I fall asleep/pass out. I made a salad with tomatoes, artichoke hearts, mushrooms and a hard boiled egg from the salad bar. Then I'll be making a thin crust California pizza kitchen margherita pizza. I'll probably eat half of that and then save the rest for breakfast..then a thin cut Porterhouse steak..about 9-10 ounces..and I bought Italian ice as well..a nice late dinner.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Happy anniversary, Dr J.

Didn't he play for the Sixers..lol

 

[MR. evil]

it was too damn hot to cook tonight so we ordered a pizza

 

[severine]

Not so bad in that today is our 11th anniversary

Congratulations!!!! :beer:

Went out with my friend. Had that Applebee's thing with the 3 different appetizers... it was ok. I don't think I'll order that again. Then had some Carvel softserve for dessert. Plus 2 Bahama Mamas with dinner.

My crazy night is over already so I'm just taking it easy...still a little buzzed. Maybe I need some buzz maintenance, too. :beer:

 

[bill2ski]

Little Necks, Top Necks, Cherry Stones,Mahogany's and Quahogs, all have their place.......
In my diet.
We've been on on an oysters Rockefeller kick for a while, lately the Maryland malpaque oysters lack the briney liqueur for eating raw.
Ever try razor,propeller or, goeduck (pronounced: Gooey duck) clams ?
I've never met a mollusk or a bivalve that I didn't like..........................to eat.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Little Necks, Top Necks, Cherry Stones,Mahogany's and Quahogs, all have their place.......
In my diet.
We've been on on an oysters Rockefeller kick for a while, lately the Maryland malpaque oysters lack the briney liqueur for eating raw.
Ever try razor,propeller or, goeduck (pronounced: Gooey duck) clams ?
I've never met a mollusk or a bivalve that I didn't like..........................to eat.

I tried raw oysters a few weeks ago at the local Seafood restaurant as they give 5 for free with a drink purchase during happy hour. I ate one and it was just not the right consistency..slimy so that was it..the bartender said you need to use alot of cocktail sauce. My favorite seafood dish of late is lump crab meat chilled and dipped in cocktail sauce. Crab cocktail as they say..served in a Martini glass..with Sam Adams summer ale.

Clams are really big around here..I had sauteed clams recently in a butter/garlic sauce and they were the bomb deezy..

 

[bill2ski]

Oyster is a love um or hate um thing
Lump crab is kind of a generic term for a few type of crustacean,
The show Deadliest Catch has made many people aware of the variety available on the west coast Reds, Kings ,Opelieo etc.
The east coast Snow,Spider and Queen crab all get "lumped" together

 

[Dr Skimeister]

My experience with clams is on-the-halfshell cherrystones or little necks. I've certainly had steamers and chowder and I'm on a never ending search for the world's best crab cakes.

I find that there's a much greater variation in the flavor of different oysters than there are in different clams. I like oysters on the halfshell with but a spritz of lemon. Good cocktail sauce or fresh horseradish for clams.

 

[bill2ski]

My experience with clams is on-the-halfshell cherrystones or little necks. I've certainly had steamers and chowder and I'm on a never ending search for the world's best crab cakes.

I find that there's a much greater variation in the flavor of different oysters than there are in different clams. I like oysters on the halfshell with but a spritz of lemon. Good cocktail sauce or fresh horseradish for clams.

Jersey is the land of the hard clam, and swimmer crabs, here it's all lobster and steamer
any way you boil um' their all good eats.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Oyster is a love um or hate um thing
Lump crab is kind of a generic term for a few type of crustacean,
The show Deadliest Catch has made many people aware of the variety available on the west coast Reds, Kings ,Opelieo etc.
The east coast Snow,Spider and Queen crab all get "lumped" together

The Alaskan King Crab Legs are great..but they're like 20-30 bucks a pounds. I like ordering crabmeat cocktail with either brown butter or cocktail sauce for dipping. Less messy than other varieties. My grandmother loves fried softshell crabs. Back when I lived in Maine..some restaurants served a lazy lobster which had all the meat removed. I personally enjoy getting down and dirty with lobster. I've been known to suck the juice out of the antenna and I enjoy the tamale(the green gook)..

 

[bill2ski]

The Alaskan King Crab Legs are great..but they're like 20-30 bucks a pounds. I like ordering crabmeat cocktail with either brown butter or cocktail sauce for dipping. Less messy than other varieties. My grandmother loves fried softshell crabs. Back when I lived in Maine..some restaurants served a lazy lobster which had all the meat removed. I personally enjoy getting down and dirty with lobster. I've been known to suck the juice out of the antenna and I enjoy the tamale(the green gook)..

Tomally ( lobster liver ) and Roe ( eggs ) are defiantly acquired tastes. Together they make a fine addition to hot drawn butter for dipping tender morsels of lobster meat.
A company called Shucks has devised a method of getting the meat out of lobster using high pressure to squeeze the meat off the shell RAW. The leg meat is sold as lobster spaghetti and chefs are warming up to the idea of a no shell lobster for it's freshness and ease of use ( given all the perish-ability issues ) The machine is called the " Big Mother Shucker"http://www.shucksmaine.com/

 

[snoseek]

Tomally ( lobster liver ) and Roe ( eggs ) are defiantly acquired tastes. Together they make a fine addition to hot drawn butter for dipping tender morsels of lobster meat.
A company called Shucks has devised a method of getting the meat out of lobster using high pressure to squeeze the meat off the shell RAW. The leg meat is sold as lobster spaghetti and chefs are warming up to the idea of a no shell lobster for it's freshness and ease of use ( given all the perish-ability issues ) The machine is called the " Big Mother Shucker"http://www.shucksmaine.com/

Holy cow that's such a great idea! That opens up sooo many new ways to better play around. I can think of so many times where I would have to extract the meat from a parcooked lobster for different things (Saute's and slow poached ect) which is time consuming and in the end the meat was still partially cooked. Starting a dish with uncooked meat would make it easier to keep tender and flavor. Thank's for posting.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Whenever I eat lobster in a group..most people don't even mess with the legs..so I get to eat all of theirs and there are little morsals of lobster meat in the body as well..A local Sports bar has a $13,95 Lobster special I need to hit up one of these days..alot easier than cooking it myself and stinking up my apartment.

 

[deadheadskier]

Whenever I eat lobster in a group..most people don't even mess with the legs..so I get to eat all of theirs and there are little morsals of lobster meat in the body as well..A local Sports bar has a $13,95 Lobster special I need to hit up one of these days..alot easier than cooking it myself and stinking up my apartment.

$13.95?? No way that could be a fresh lobster they're cooking otherwise they're losing money


I love lobster, except for the stench after the fact on my hands. I have to wash them a half dozen times to get the stink off of them. We probably cook them at home a couple of times a year and the gf's family has lobster at every holiday except Thanksgiving or Easter. Christmas dinner? Lobster Birthdays? Lobster 4th of July? Lobster

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

$13.95?? No way that could be a fresh lobster they're cooking otherwise they're losing money

Yes it's live lobster..because there's a tank..it comes with fries and cole slaw..just a small one pound lobster..Last summer it was $11.95. Items like this are called loss leaders in business because it gets people into the restaurant. All the draft beers and wings help subsidize the cheap lobsters. I know at the Supermarket..lobsters are $9.95 per pound with a shoppers club card.

 

[deadheadskier]

Oh I'm aware of the lost leader concept. It's just far cheaper than I would expect given the cost for lobsters down there compared with up here. I don't believe I've seen a lobster that cheap anywhere in Maine. That's about the average price for a Lobster roll, not a lobster dinner.