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Kantor’s first course was a refreshing lobster grapefruit salad with avocado-cucumber puree, tarragon, sorrel leaves and mint-cucumber granité.
This soup actually had big chunks of lobster in it. As far as I can remember, it was indeed a good start to a fine lunch in Little Italy.
I've assembled most of the ingredients I'll use: thyme, tarrgaon, tomato, tomato paste, onions, fish stock, brandy, sherry, lobster bodies, heavy cream, bay leaves, peppercorns, celery, and carrot. The original recipe uses garlic, but Melanie can't eat it, so I'll substitute a shallot.
Kreeftenplaatjes zat, maar deze is toch weer speciaal.
Enough pictures of lobsters around, but this lobster hat just that extra.
Biiiig lobster. This guy weighed nearly 3 kilos, was worth around £100-odd, and was about 20 years old. He was covered in tiny shellfish and barnacles. That's a "regular" sized lobster next to him. The regular guys were being sold for about £10 each, for comparison.
Lobster is more expensive when it has to be flown across country! Salmon caviar seems to be readily available, however.
These men are catching lobster in cages called "lobster pots." Sailors in New England always watch for a red sky. They have an old saying about that. "Red sky in the morning, Sailors take warning. Red sky at night, Sailors delight." I think it has to do with weather. but it probably inspired the name of that boat.