Moar Lobster Feasts!

I've been hearing about these lobsters from Charlie and Kelsey since Day 1, March 1. We've looked for them in Brasalito I don't know how many times, but we finally lucked out! They're pretty inexpensive at about $5 per lobster.

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.