Surf and Turf anytime of year

[MeatyPortion]

Just some pictures from last fall when I went insane and grilled everything I could including lobster, pita bread, and octopus.

New York Strips marinating along with some prawns. You can tell what time of year it is.

Later in the year, doing almost the exact same thing on my Weber.

I think I had run out of beer at this point and briefly switched to stirred Skyy martinis.

One shot of everything cooking: steaks, prawns, an onion.

Now I'm hungry...

 

[archroy]

The food sure looks good but something's not right about that grilling in the snow pic while drinking a martini with a ufc hat on

-Archroy

 

[z987k]

The food sure looks good but something's not right about that grilling in the snow pic while drinking a martini with a ufc hat on

-Archroy

Ah, but a vodka/gin martini is a very manly drink. Most beer drinkers can't put them down as they're too much of a little girl.

Now where's my Sazerac?

 

[Danny013]

A real martini is not your standard overly-sweet, fruity chick "martini." It is a man's drink; dry, strong and complex in it's simplicity. Delicious and beautiful.

And we all know a real man's martini is made with only gin.

/Let the flames begin!
//I prefer Plymouth and a twist of lemon!

Delicious looking prawns, by the way. Not much can beat it!

 

[z987k]

A real martini is not your standard overly-sweet, fruity chick "martini." It is a man's drink; dry, strong and complex in it's simplicity. Delicious and beautiful.

And we all know a real man's martini is made with only gin.

/Let the flames begin!
//I prefer Plymouth and a twist of lemon!

Delicious looking prawns, by the way. Not much can beat it!

Ah North Shore is hard to beat!

 

[MeatyPortion]

I'll just post this here even though there's no Surf - oops, I'm not eating anything that comes out of that lake.

 

[homebrewer_99]

Surf and turf...in my neighborhood that's fish sticks and hot dogs...

 

[MeatyPortion]

Surf and turf...in my neighborhood that's fish sticks and hot dogs...

:cross:

I didn't know Illinois rolled like that.

 

[MeatyPortion]

Here's the Surf that was sorely missing from the previous picture. I grilled a lobster which a buddy from Maine gave me last year. Here are its final moments:

Ok, first we take the lobster...

...and determine its sex. Why? I dunno, but that's what my buddy did. This one is a male. I think.

 

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Then we chase the ****ing dog with it.

 

[MeatyPortion]

Now we drop the lobster in a boiling pot of water.

*in German officer's voice* "C'mon, ze vater is perfekt. It is just a showah, jah?"

 

[MeatyPortion]

Now bisect the lobster.

 

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Throw the lobster on the grill which is preheated of course.

BURN HERETIC!!!

 

[MeatyPortion]

We're almost done here.

And, hey presto! Lobster for dinner:

It was fun preparing the lobster this way although boiling would've been quicker I think, I just prefer grilling things if at all possible. First time grilling lobster.

 

[homebrewer_99]

You know there's a lot of debate about the water temp to start cooking crustaceans.

I prefer to start the off in cool water and slowly let it warm up...this way they are more inclined to die in their sleep during a warm bath versus being shocked to death from the sudden heat. I think it would put too much lobster adrenaline in the meat and change its flavor. But that's just me...

 

[MeatyPortion]

Interesting. Come to think of it: the lobster did seem to "release" when I dumped him in the boiling water. One final act of defiance.

 

[dontman]

You know there's a lot of debate about the water temp to start cooking crustaceans.

I prefer to start the off in cool water and slowly let it warm up...this way they are more inclined to die in their sleep during a warm bath versus being shocked to death from the sudden heat. I think it would put too much lobster adrenaline in the meat and change its flavor. But that's just me...

I'm not sure whether the adrenaline thing is fact or myth but when I was in cooking school we were instructed to split the head with a sharp knife just before dropping it in the pot. Part of the reasoning was that the lipids in the meat begin breaking down from the moment the lobster dies so the shorter time between death and the customer's mouth the better.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I'm not sure whether the adrenaline thing is fact or myth but when I was in cooking school we were instructed to split the head with a sharp knife just before dropping it in the pot. Part of the reasoning was that the lipids in the meat begin breaking down from the moment the lobster dies so the shorter time between death and the customer's mouth the better.

I hear you, but I wonder if it's because a dead brain can't produce an adrenaline rush...

 

[jdonly1]

Ozz style

 

[MeatyPortion]

Ozz style

Looks tasty!

 

[MeatyPortion]

I have to post this pic in this thread for some reason.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I'm not sure myself, but I know if you put me in a boiling pot of water and I was alive you'd damn sure be getting loads of adrenaline and all kinds of other chemicals pumping from my brain to my body...which I think would impact the overall flavor.

 

[MeatyPortion]

True, although the lobster we prepared this way tasted great. Maybe the adrenaline is nature's spice.

 

[dontman]

I hear you, but I wonder if it's because a dead brain can't produce an adrenaline rush...

Yes, of course. Excuse my slightly buzzed non sequitor. The stab in the brain stem is for no adrenaline.

The (unmentioned in my post) drop in rolling boil water is to cook the beasty as quickly as possible.

 

[MeatyPortion]

I'll have to try both ways when I get home.

 

[beerthirty]

You know there's a lot of debate about the water temp to start cooking crustaceans.

I prefer to start the off in cool water and slowly let it warm up...this way they are more inclined to die in their sleep during a warm bath versus being shocked to death from the sudden heat. I think it would put too much lobster adrenaline in the meat and change its flavor. But that's just me...

The scream alone is worth the drop into the boiling water. Also does a lobster die faster from a stab to the head that probably misses the tiny brain or by being immersed in boiling water which causes instant shock and death and begins the cooking process in one step?

 

[homebrewer_99]

I really don't know, but I bet they both taste good with butter...