Good morning Team Awesome….
Well day 16 recoup and it was good. I really rested today. I laid outside in the sun by the sea in a gravity chair, the salt breeze blew over me and the sun felt so sweet on the skin. I’m trying so hard to get my white head evenly toned but don’t want to bake what’s left…lol as you can tell my spirits are much better this morning.. I slept 5 hours and I feel amazing. I really needed to sleep and I give you guys all the praise and glory for your interceding prayers thank you, thank you, I really do count on you guys, you have so much power when you come together and agree on what I need though the Lord.
So today I go for the Henna tattoo on my head, I’m nervous - I want something different but I don’t want to look like a freak…but its temporary so I can live with it for a week or so. Who knows maybe it will be a whole new trend…lol
So I want to tell you a little story but I’m afraid I might offend a few people, trust me I apologize a head of time.
So with Rutger out here with us we have been trying to immerse him in all things island and for us too. Brad and I usually just rest and aren’t in to the touristy thing. So, this time we have just immersed ourselves in all things seafood because that’s what it’s all about. So we have had mussels, clams, oysters, haddock, cod, scallops, shrimp, chowders, fresh fried, baked anything we could think of….and it’s been really great not to mention the best fries on the island and we have been very very successful….So today we decided it was lobster night. And not in a restaurant, we decided to do live lobsters and do them ourselves… This is something I have done several times in my life and have no problem cooking live lobsters, till now.
We had major lobster trauma……SO HERE IS WHERE IF YOU ARE FAINT OF HEART JUST SCROOL DOWN...
I just want to state … I don’t not believe in creating any pain so this is just a flunky thing that happened and I took no joy it and was quiet horrified but it transpired so I must share...…lol
So like I’ve said - I’ve cooked lobster before, So yesterday we went to Victoria by the Sea and went to the wharf and picked out 3 1 ½ pound lobsters. As I said, Rutger had never had one so we wanted to do it right. When the woman picked them out of the cooler they were really feisty, I guess they were really fresh. She lifted them out one at a time and each time these lobsters where flailing their tails and shaking and very aggressive….I’m said "wow I’ve never seen such active lobsters before", but again they just were fresh caught so they were angry I guess…
So she said just keep them in the bag no water nothing just stick them in the fridge till we are ready to cook them, I politely just asked for her proper instruction to make sure I was doing them right… Basically exactly what I have done before except she said to cook them a lot longer than I would ever do but ok maybe just different species I will do what she said, I mean she is the one that deals with the little biters every day. So we get home and Rutger make a nice bowl of salad and some garlic butter with parsley, and garlic toast. So were prepared except for a pot or two. There wasn’t much here so Brad went out and borrowed one again not really what I was looking for we needed deep and tall but all we could get was a Dutch oven type one which was doable, not really what I wanted but hey were are roughing it. So we get two pots and fill them with water and a cup of salt in each one. Instructions boil water take bands off lobster place head down and let them boil. Start the time once the water starts to re-boil and then 20 minutes. Ok simple…so the water starts to boils and Rutger and I are taking the bands off this little sucker... he is not happy and why not I think he knows what is coming….so we plunge the first one in the boiling pot of water place the lid on quickly and stand back to do the next 2. When all of the sudden the lid jumps off the pot and this lobster starts flailing his tail, he completely jumps out of the pot. We quickly grab it and throw it back in the pot and put the lid on, again all of a sudden the lid comes off again and the tail is flailing. It’s like what kind of madness is this then all of sudden like a double act the lobster in the other pot kicks the lid off tail flailing back and forth. At this point Rutger is looking at me with this horrific look on his face he is white and pale and just about ready to throw up with the shock on his face…I’m just like what the ????? I’ve never even heard tell of this….Finally the bucking lobsters subside with one or two more ticks on the pots and with that silence… there is water all over that stove salt bubbling everywhere and the three of sitting looking like we have just done the worse thing in the world to these poor beasts. We get them boiled put them in a pan to start removing the sweet white meat, but even in death these puppies were defining us in any way possible they didn’t want to break apart the claws didn’t want to come off the shells were so thick we couldn’t break them with proper tools so out came hammers and anything we could get the meat out with, so finally picking shells off walls, meat on the walls, curtains, water and guts on the floor, ceiling and anywhere it could possibly be. So here we are the three of us sitting in a crime scene. Traumatized by our wonderful lobster dinner... Not… We couldn’t eat it, Brad just looked and said I can’t do it now; Rutger was just in Shock and feeling so bad about what the lobster went through… I grabbed a piece and said take that you bastard and slurped it down with defiance… so we have 30.00 worth of beautiful sweet meat in the fridge and no one could eat it…so I think perhaps steak with a wonderful lobster topping with a hollandaise sauce and baked Potato, and asparagus…to honour the 3 lives that were taken…lol
Cheers to you, you feisty lobsters but in the end we won albeit a little shell shocked (pardon the pun.)But we will enjoy you one way to the other…
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