old post--lobster rolls omg

Sundays with the Lechlers

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Lobster Rolls

I  was quite old before I had my first taste of lobster and even older before I had a lobster roll.  It was
 in Cape Cod during one of many antiquing excursions.  I've never forgotten that first bite...like my first introduction to pizza in the late fifties both stay with me still. I had only had one disappointing lobster roll, soggy and too early made last winter on the way home from Florida.  Lobster salad must be combined at the last minute before placing it on a toasted, buttered bun.  It's scrumptious then.  The best ones I have ever had, however, was one winter stay in Boca.  I had lobster salad, lobster rolls, and anything lobster related each day for a week.I was reminded of this when Ina Garten sent me her blog this morning which featured this delicious memory.  It's not hard to make at home, but here in Ohio we must simply come up with the lobster and fuss with it's cooking to a delicate state. Oh just to go to the fish monger and buy a pound already for the bun would be wonderful, but at what they charge on Long Island for lobster salad--last I hear it was $100. a pound at the Bread and Fishes and that was five years ago.  They don't charge that in Florida.  My lobster rolls filled to the brim was  $16. and worth every penny.  If you don't have it often, then why not?

                       

3/4 pound cooked fresh lobster meat, diced
1/2 cup good mayonnaise
1/2 cup finely diced celery (1 1/2 stalks)
1 tablespoon capers, drained
1 1/2 tablespoons finely minced fresh dill
Pinch of kosher salt
Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
8 hot dog rolls, grilled or toasted

Combine the lobster, mayonnaise, celery, capers, dill, salt, and pepper. Fill each roll and serve.
Recipe and picture Barefoot Contessa.

Labor Day week end is going to be crazy, but fun. Joe and Glenda arrive Friday night because Joe and Andy are attending the band show and football game at The Ohio State University.  Then they spend another night and the next day surprise guests arrive (surprise to them) and there will be a family birthday grill out party on Sunday with twenty to thirty guests. The guest of honor likes steaks and can't get enough of them, so they will be on the menu for sure.  Taco bowls will be present as well.  I always try to add a couple of new items to the two meal day, so I am looking for easy but tasty treats for the entire week end of partying. Glenda's stay is easy, she's a pizza girl so when they arrive Friday afternoon for cards and drinks, pizza will be on the menu for who ever else shows up and there are always plenty who magically appear especially with the pool beckoning.  Man it's a heat wave around here! As the menu for the long week end ahead comes together, I will share it with you. We may need to add ice to the pool, it's like bath water today,( Friday.) Tonight it is grilled salmon for those who love it and BLTs for those who can't do without them since the tomato crop has arrived! We already have two baskets of tomatoes, both red and yellow. Hello.

Can you tell I really want a lobster roll?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

chicken and noodles

Note: I just discovered people leaving comments.  This is a new feature to me after 900 posts, so if I have not replied to your comments, it is because I just found them.  Also, thanks to Patty James for the help with shrimp burgers. I think that is entirely possible.  I will give it a try and report. (I had thought egg whites but had not tried it. I am still working Trader Joe's.)

Beth asked if I would make a main dish for several health care workers who, as you know, are putting in massive hours of labor during this crisis. Well, that is up my alley.  I can cook and I love to cook big, so this pot is larger than it looks and to lift it is scary. I hope they enjoy it and I can do it again with pleasure.

Well, my hair has officially taken over my head.  It is now in charge and I am but its slave.  I want to stay put, but I am getting nervous that I will never see the rest of my face in this life time. Everyone who lives here needs hair attention some look like cavemen; not naming names, however.

Andy and I look forward to the plants in various nurseries.  The pots need planting but it is not worth the risk of exposure.  I am afraid we will explode one day, get in the car, head for the nursery, and buy everything in sight. I want to buy more peonies for my alley of peonies.  One lucky day Andy came home with fifteen unmarked peonies.  They practically gave them to him because their color was unmarked--they turned out to be yellow and glorious. Now my friend, Pam B. in Cincinnati says the yellow peonies there are $100. each.