To find the lobsters, you have to be fairly clever. First, you have to know where to find the fishermen. Then you have to know when to find them. If you drive through Brasalito through some dirt roads, you'll see houses with coolers outside. It's likely those coolers are full of lobsters!
We picked up $40 worth of lobsters the first time. They were so tasty.
Charlie and Lorenzo with the lobsters |
Lobster Feast Part 1
Grilled Lobsters with garlic butter
Tomato Garlic Rice
Salad
Charlie and Billy prepping dinner |
butter with garlic |
the feast crew: Billy, Lorenzo, Charlie, and Kelsey |
look at all the lobster |
shrapnel |
the Feast! |
We grilled those babies up real nice. Just throw them on the grill whole and they take about 15 minutes. All you have to do is wait until they're bright pink. Billy made a really good salad, and I made some rice with tomatoes and garlic and onions.
Lobster Feast Part 2
Grilled Lobsters with garlic butter
Shrimp and Clam Paella (based loosely on this recipe)
It wasn't very nice of us to have Lobster Feast the night before Colleen arrived, so we had to do it again! This time I made a super yummy paella with shrimp and clams to go along with the grilled lobsters.
chorizo, garlic, onion, rice stewing for paella |
in go the shrimps and clams |
peas make it the final addition |
the Feast part 2 |
even Lucas came to visit! |
Lobster Feast Part 3
Lobster Tomato Basil Pasta
Garbanzo Artichoke Heart Salad
Third time's the charm, and we still aren't sick of lobster. I made a seafood broth from the leftover lobster shells with some potatoes, garlic, and clam shells. That simmered for about an hour and created a fairly dark and flavorful broth. I cooked the noodles in that since we only had a little bit of leftover lobster for the pasta.
The salad had garbanzo beans, tomato, artichoke hearts, parsley, lemon juice and feta. It was tasty and simple.
simmering stock |
fresh salad |
the pasta base |
spaghetti cooking in the broth |
perfecto! |
We still aren't tired of lobster, and all we can say around here is, "It smells like lobster!" I'm pretty sure lobster is coming out of my pores today. Or I'm going to turn into Zoidberg.
Now that we've had the lobster feasts, there's only one thing left on my list of things to do. Get chifrijo.
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