The season has closed on local lobster fishing. I took this photo of a lobster fisherman loading his traps onto a truck. Reports were that it was a poor harvest this year. Wholesale prices hovered over $15.00 per pound for these meaty lobsters. The season will repopen in October.
I have posted one of my favorite recipes from me London days at Le Gavroche. I prepared this for the Queen Mother's 79 birthday. It was a take out that we placed in silver service and was picked up by the butler in the Royal Bentley. Use East Coast lobsters until our local "bugs" are back in the markets.
Chef Michael
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Packing Up Lobster Traps
lobster |ˈläbstər|
• Noun, a large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, stalked eyes, and the first of its five pairs of limbs modified as pincers.
• Homarus and other genera, class Malacostraca: several species, in particular the American lobster ( H. americanus).
• the flesh of this animal as food.• a deep red color typical of a cooked lobster.• any of various similar crustaceans, esp. certain crayfish whose claws are eaten as food.verb [ intrans. ]
catch lobsters.ORIGIN Old English lopustre, alteration of Latin locusta ‘crustacean, locust.’
The Queen Mum's Lobster
Recipe for Queen Mum's Lobster
