Knit My Dog

Eating a lobster is not for the faint hearted. First there is the whole boiling-while-live thing. Then there are the shells. And the goo. And the stinky mess that needs to be cleaned up, especially when the pot boils over on the stove (which seems to happen just about every time we cook them).

Last night we finally got our Valentine's lobster. We had to delay because of the storm on V-Day. Howie picked them up on the way home from work yesterday. He got four 1.5 pounders. That's a lot of lobster for two people. But when I eat lobster for dinner, that's all I like to eat. Lobster dipped in butter.

Did I mention he got hard shell lobsters? The lobsters molt every year, shed their skin and grow another one. So you can buy a lobster with a really hard shell that hasn't molted yet. Or you can buy a soft shelled lobster who's shell is like paper. You can just peel it off. I like the taste of a hard shell lobster. The meat is sweeter and it's usually full of meat because it has just about outgrown it's home. The problem lies in getting through the shell to eat the meat. In years past I've even gone out to the driveway with a hammer to open lobster shells.

We finally have what we think are the best lobster crackers. Not your typical vise-like cracker to squeeze the shell, but a pair of serious scissors that cut through the shell and expose the meat. Well, I had a little problem with my first claw and ended up with this:

It didn't stop me or even slow me down. I was a total mess anyway so I just kept on with my lobster. They were delicious! Howie lets me pick which one I want to eat so I was sizing them up while they were in the sink crawling around (I told you it's barbaric). I chose the lefty - the one with the left handed crusher claw. I'm left handed, and I figured it was just the proper thing to do. Mine was sweeter and much tastier than the right handed one. On the second round, the lefty was sweeter too (he had ended up with two lefties and two righties - what are the chances?). All in all, it was another successful lobster feast.

I'm off to SPA today for the day so hopefully there will be knitting content tomorrow.