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I'm sitting outside with a post meal cigar beside the pool.
Just had a great meal and recommend this to everyone. I bought two huge 3.5lb lobsters (live) from Walmart (difficult to get live lobsters at home).
Steamed them and we (all six of us) gorged on them with toast and melted butter, washed down with mugs of cold pink champagne (Veuve Clicquot, my favourite).
Cannot recommend it highly enough - one of the pleasures of renting a Villa rather than staying in a hotel is the freedom to do this sort of thing.
Go for it - ignore the squeals from the kids, once they get the sweet taste of freshly steamed lobster with butter dripping down their chins the squeamishness disppears.
Doesn't half make a mess, though. Mrs T will be shouting in the morning as she cleans it up!
Katys Grandad
24-12-2009, 09:05
Sounds great and you're very lucky to have found a house where the owner allows smoking even on the pool deck. A quality cigar is one of life's great (and now almost forbidden) pleasures which I allow myself on just a few occasions a year, tomorrow being 1 of them!
Don't know what your experience has been but whenever I've had lobster in Florida restaurants, no matter how much you ask for it to be done otherwise, they always mercilessly over cook it to a point where you feel like you're eating white rubber.
ujpest doza
24-12-2009, 15:35
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
Sounds great and you're very lucky to have found a house where the owner allows smoking even on the pool deck. A quality cigar is one of life's great (and now almost forbidden) pleasures which I allow myself on just a few occasions a year, tomorrow being 1 of them!
Don't know what your experience has been but whenever I've had lobster in Florida restaurants, no matter how much you ask for it to be done otherwise, they always mercilessly over cook it to a point where you feel like you're eating white rubber.
[/quote]Only time i've had it was at Captain Nemo's on the 192 years ago now and it was like eating white rubber so i've never tried it again since.
florida4sun
24-12-2009, 16:03
Send it back! Over cooked lobster is not worth eating.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
Sounds great and you're very lucky to have found a house where the owner allows smoking even on the pool deck. A quality cigar is one of life's great (and now almost forbidden) pleasures which I allow myself on just a few occasions a year, tomorrow being 1 of them!
Don't know what your experience has been but whenever I've had lobster in Florida restaurants, no matter how much you ask for it to be done otherwise, they always mercilessly over cook it to a point where you feel like you're eating white rubber.
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andrewmckay5
24-12-2009, 16:50
Finish off with this?
Mulled Jack Daniels. "Good quality apple juice heated with whole star anise, candied ginger, cinnamon sticks, dried figs, all spice berries, cloves, dried cranberries. Heat until you have as much flavour out of the spices/fruit as you want–strain and transfer to a crock pot. Add JD about 1-750 ml. Bottle for 6 litres of juice. Sit in the crock pot on low to keep warm for your guests to enjoy. "
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by andrewmckay5
Finish off with this?
Mulled Jack Daniels. "Good quality apple juice heated with whole star anise, candied ginger, cinnamon sticks, dried figs, all spice berries, cloves, dried cranberries. Heat until you have as much flavour out of the spices/fruit as you want–strain and transfer to a crock pot. Add JD about 1-750 ml. Bottle for 6 litres of juice. Sit in the crock pot on low to keep warm for your guests to enjoy. "
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Liked the last sentence of you sitting in the crock pot.
caroline
24-12-2009, 19:40
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Tonish
I'm sitting outside with a post meal cigar beside the pool.
Just had a great meal and recommend this to everyone. I bought two huge 3.5lb lobsters (live) from Walmart (difficult to get live lobsters at home).
Steamed them and we (all six of us) gorged on them with toast and melted butter, washed down with mugs of cold pink champagne (Veuve Clicquot, my favourite).
Cannot recommend it highly enough - one of the pleasures of renting a Villa rather than staying in a hotel is the freedom to do this sort of thing.
Go for it - ignore the squeals from the kids, once they get the sweet taste of freshly steamed lobster with butter dripping down their chins the squeamishness disppears.
Doesn't half make a mess, though. Mrs T will be shouting in the morning as she cleans it up!
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That sounds fab Tonish - can I ask how long you steam the lobster for? - we love lobster but I've never cooked it as i'm scared of spoiling it by either under or over cooking it[msnscared]
Hubby loves an occasional cigar and always has a trip to the Sosa shop at Downtown Disney.
andrewmckay5
24-12-2009, 19:44
[msnsmile2] Very accurate description of me after 90 minutes of soccer.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by trupial
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by andrewmckay5
Finish off with this?
Mulled Jack Daniels. "Good quality apple juice heated with whole star anise, candied ginger, cinnamon sticks, dried figs, all spice berries, cloves, dried cranberries. Heat until you have as much flavour out of the spices/fruit as you want–strain and transfer to a crock pot. Add JD about 1-750 ml. Bottle for 6 litres of juice. Sit in the crock pot on low to keep warm for your guests to enjoy. "
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Liked the last sentence of you sitting in the crock pot.
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We had bbq'd lobster tails and shrimp on the beach at Anna Maria Island on Christmas Day. Everyone we met very friendly, and as well as pelicans dive-bombing the water for food saw some dolphins just pop their heads and fins above the water. Doesn't get much better [clap]. Although we took our own portable bbq there were the park grills that could easily be used - if a tad rusty! Caroline both the lobster and shrimp cooked v quickly on the barbie, and both tasted delicious.
florida4sun
27-12-2009, 15:34
Carline depends how you like them but I find I like mine slightly under done. Typical 1.5lb lobsters would take 10 mins and add 4 mins per pound over that.
Use well salted water and half fill a large pot (don't fill right up as you don't want the lobster rolling around). Live lobsters only, frozen are a complete waste of money.
Clarify but for dipping in. Yummy.
If doing on grill, use tails only and cook very quick at very high heat.
caroline
27-12-2009, 18:04
Thanks Fiona and Martin - we've got a great fish and seafood supplier near us so I think I'll give it a go!
The vast majority of homes are non-smoking indoors, but a great many owners are more than for guests to smoke on the deck. It is outside, after all. Enjoy your cigar.[msnsmile2][msnsmile2]
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
Sounds great and you're very lucky to have found a house where the owner allows smoking even on the pool deck. A quality cigar is one of life's great (and now almost forbidden) pleasures which I allow myself on just a few occasions a year, tomorrow being 1 of them![/quote]
Caroline
Two v large lobsters, steamed (no pot big enough) - we put them on a rack in a large roasting tray, about 1.5 inches of boiling salt water covered with tin foil to make a tent for them to steam in and kept boiling on top of the stove for just over 20 minutes. They came out perfect.
Nothing worse than rubber lobster!
caroline
29-12-2009, 12:34
Thanks Tonish, definitely going to give that a go in the near future[^]
Just seen this thread, thanks for the idea, and instructions - sounds great and definately on my list!
moodyvilla
31-12-2009, 03:57
Tonish - We just got back from Walmart. Although we did think of your idea we ended up with a couple of Pizzas from Mia. Still the Veuve is still going down very well!
KWdreams
18-01-2010, 03:10
Have to agree that cooking on the grill alternative to eating out. I also love to bbq some shrimp - you can get really large ones!!!
I want it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!![:P]
I agree, while eating out is very nice, one person always has to forego the alcohol so eating in is so much nicer, everyone can enjoy a drink if they want to. We rarely eat out, the BBQ is always on and it is so easy to just throw together a salad, no real cooking is needed.
Andrena
Not a BBQ fan really, but we like to get some fresh cooked chicken, and chicken tenders from Publix with a selection of salads and potato salad and some wonderful cakes and ice cream etc for dessert -easy to serve, and lovely al fresco sat out on the Lanai, with the fan on, with the waterfall from the pool in the background, and the wildlife in the distance - my favourite time is just as dusk falls, and I also love a quiet cup of coffee first thing in the morning [which is damn early when I first get there] watching the sun rise,and clear the mist off the lake - feeling the warm air- awh, its bliss to sit and read with a jug of fresh brewed coffee on my own, with no one around except the otter in the lake! sigh, roll on July