Lobster Anyone?

[Lil Tink's Nana]

I know there is a time to buy lobsters and a time not to buy them. I think if a month has an "R" in it that is the time to buy lobsters but not if the month doesn't have the "R" in it.

Like the month of August. The lobsters are shedding their shells and you will find smaller lobsters, or "culls", lobsters which have one claw missing.

When I think of a baked lobster I picture about a one and a half pound lobster that is stuffed with another lobster. Yummy but not for sale. My husband would bake them and he did not use the claws for the stuffing, just the knuckles and the tail from another lobster.

There is so much rich fare in WDW that I am trying to stop wishing for a baked lobster on our coming vacation to WDW. Rainforest Cafe has a baked lobster stuffed with crabmeat but that just doesn't cut it with me and all that yummy hot butter for dipping. I am thinking salmon on a cedar plank instead.

 

[acm563]

I know there is a time to buy lobsters and a time not to buy them. I think if a month has an "R" in it that is the time to buy lobsters but not if the month doesn't have the "R" in it.

Like the month of August. The lobsters are shedding their shells and you will find smaller lobsters, or "culls", lobsters which have one claw missing.

When I think of a baked lobster I picture about a one and a half pound lobster that is stuffed with another lobster. Yummy but not for sale. My husband would bake them and he did not use the claws for the stuffing, just the knuckles and the tail from another lobster.

There is so much rich fare in WDW that I am trying to stop wishing for a baked lobster on our coming vacation to WDW. Rainforest Cafe has a baked lobster stuffed with crabmeat but that just doesn't cut it with me and all that yummy hot butter for dipping. I am thinking salmon on a cedar plank instead.

I have never had baked Lobster at the world but I had some yummy grilled lobster at Fultons Crab House in DTD so you might want to check their menu out and see Believe me Rainforest Cafe's Lobster cannot compare to Fultons...I have had both and aside from the Lobster a friend grills for me Fultons was the best I have had in any restaurant...(maybe I just always get lucky when I am there, but theirs has always been beyond compare) I might also add I had Lobster at Capt Jacks and it was the WORST lobster I have ever had....lol

 

[MdmMim]

I thought that "R" rule pertained to oysters.

Anyway, I like lobsters, especially in the fall when the shells are soft. Mmmm. And they are sweet! DH makes awesome lobster rolls! I could go for one now.

I prefer the northern lobsters to the southern variety. IMHO, they have more flavor. And I don't like any stuffing--I like it plain, maybe a little butter.

When is lunch?? I am so ready!

 

[Lil Tink's Nana]

Dang it, it's just not that easy. The group I am traveling with, family, just don't like seafood, one may eat tuna fish and sometimes some haddock. I cannot imagine what a lobster taste like with crabmeat for stuffing. Just the words lobster, and Disneyworld makes me want a lobster.

If you have never had baked, stuffed lobster you don't know what you are missing if you enjoy lobster. It was like a two and a half pound lobster because my husband would stuff it with a one-pound lobster. The lobster is stuffed with the knuckles and the tail in pieces, mixed with some Ritz crackers, butter, then you put a bite on your fork and dip it in warm melted butter. It has been a few decades sinse I enjoyed a dinner like that.

Yes, I am talking northern lobsters too.

 

[acm563]

Dang it, it's just not that easy. The group I am traveling with, family, just don't like seafood, one may eat tuna fish and sometimes some haddock. I cannot imagine what a lobster taste like with crabmeat for stuffing. Just the words lobster, and Disneyworld makes me want a lobster.

If you have never had baked, stuffed lobster you don't know what you are missing if you enjoy lobster. It was like a two and a half pound lobster because my husband would stuff it with a one-pound lobster. The lobster is stuffed with the knuckles and the tail in pieces, mixed with some Ritz crackers, butter, then you put a bite on your fork and dip it in warm melted butter. It has been a few decades sinse I enjoyed a dinner like that.

Yes, I am talking northern lobsters too.

Mmmm, actually you just brought to my memory an episode where this was cooked on the Food Network so now I will have to go hunt down the recipe...gee thanks.... (and if you go to Fultons you can have lobster, they can have steak or something else... )

 

[Lil Tink's Nana]

Have you ever purchased a lobster and have taking a lobster sandwhich to work for you lunch? After the lobster is cooked, you chill it, cut it in chunks mix it with mayonaise and put it between two slices of bread.

For people who are looking at a richer diet then what they usually eat in a week and don't wish for too much butter there is always the choice of using vinegar instead of butter.

Then there is lobster in spaghetti sauce. Lobsters are cooked raw, in their shells in the sauce.

Lobsters are scarcer now. The lobster fishermen go into a huge debt each spring to put their boats iand traps in the water again. To make a profet they need to first cover the loan. Their loans each spring are in the thousands. You see perhaps the big companies in Alaska on television. Local lobstermen are usually just a captain and his 'coolie', sometimes just the captain out there alone. There are leaving port mornings about four, four-thirty and back in the afternoon. Their hands constantly in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. So....lobsters are no longer a dollar a pound for a soft-shell.

Being old isn't bad because we didn't miss out on some good things. Can you imagine what it was like years ago when lobsters were so plentiful? The people could pick them up on the beach and because of so many lobsters they were fed to the prisoners who complained about the meal.

 

[jamstew]

I thought that "R" rule pertained to oysters.

I know that's right, and I've never heard it about anything other than oysters. Once when I was on the coast and wanted oysters out of season, I said something to the server about it. They said that almost all oysters served in restaurants are farm raised, and the "R" rule didn't apply. I don't know whether that's accurate or not, but that's what I was told.

 

[sneddenn]

There is so much rich fare in WDW that I am trying to stop wishing for a baked lobster on our coming vacation to WDW. Rainforest Cafe has a baked lobster stuffed with crabmeat but that just doesn't cut it with me and all that yummy hot butter for dipping. I am thinking salmon on a cedar plank instead.

I had some of the best cedar plank salmon ever at the Artist Point at the Wilderness Lodge in June of this year!

You should try it out!

 

[buena vista]

If you live near the NH seacoast, go with Artist Point's Cedar Plank Salmon when you're at WDW. It's delicious. You're not going to get much better baked stuffed lobster than you can at some of the better restaurants along Routes 1, 1A and 9 in NH and ME.

 

[disneydeb]

little tinks nana- you have brought back some memorys for me, when my family came over on the boat from sicily, to america, my grandfather worked for the railroad, when my grandma became a widow when my mom was just 9 yrs old, with 6 kids to raise, she and my aunt and uncle opened a restaurant called the radcliff inn in ct, and served the lobster tails with the ritz crackers and butter just like you described! i remember the big trays of lobster tails with the stuffing going into the ovens. I onced asked my mom what culinary or business schools our family went to, to start up a restaurant and she said none, they opened the business and my aunts and grandmother, and my grandmothers best friend did all the cooking. thank heavens i cook like my grandmother, since all my aunts and grandmother and my mom have passed. i am writing a cookbook for all my nieces, and my daughter so the family secrets to cooking dont die along with me someday! they will all be getting one for christmas this year!. thanks for the happy memory to make my sunday.

 

[adminjedi]

We ate at Narcoosee's July 3rd. For appetizers we had crabcakes and the muscles which were amazing. 2 of our kids had the whole main lobster, and the other 6 of us had the surf & turf - absolutely fabulous!

 

[amyy]

The whole lobster at Narcoosee's is from Maine but the lobster tails in the surf and turf are not. It is easy to tell.

We are from Maine and the guy who seated was from the town we live in. Well his tag said Bangor but he was really from Unity but figured no one knew where that was. I know-totally off subject but it added to our Narcoosee's experience to see someone from home.

Looks like we will have to try Artist's Point.