Consider the Lobster

Doesn't that look tasty?

Saturday was one of those wonderful days where nothing happened and it did not matter. Part of the reason was fear of the storm, and part of it was that just hanging out with HJ77 and watching our Alma Mater beat RPI is a little slice of heaven. We ate good food (standard American breakfast, chicken enchiladas at lunch and the above for dinner), enjoyed coffee and drinks, watched football and movies, read, snuggled and just had a wonderful time.

I digress...

This is a post about lobster.

I love lobster. If someone were to make a lobster gelato, I would happily eat it with a grin on my face. So, when we decided to stay in on a Saturday night and watch a movie (Love and Other Drugs), I decided that something decadent was in order.

So, roasted lobster tail with a lobster spaghetti felt like it fit the bill.

For the lobster tails, I roasted them for 45 minutes at 375 in the shell, with some salt, garlic and butter. Very simple preparation that high lighted the natural sweetness of the lobster. (Hah! As I was typing that, I thought of the voice of Kenji Fukui saying something like that and realized how cliche it really is.)

For the pasta, I took a prepared lobster bisque (from Horizon Foods), added lots of black pepper, cayenne pepper, and garlic, as well as some butter and olive oil as additional fat and let it cook together for a while. I also finished the pasta in the sauce.

It was easy and simple and tasty and I love lobster. HJ77 thought that is was delish! I think I did well, especially for a cold and snowy night.

(The title of this post comes from David Foster Wallace's piece of the same name from Gourmet Magazine and the collection of essays of the same name.(Wikipedia))