The best thing about autumn in New England...

[joflasher]

is not the glorious colors that the leaves turn

is not the pick your own apple orchards with 80 million different types of apples

is not those wonderfull cold windy storms that blow out in one evening

is not the techni-colored sunsets (though that might be from pollution)

is not even the gorgeous graveyards everywhere with all the nifty skull gravestones...

No, the best thing about autumn in New England is $5.00/lb lobster...alive and kicking and out of the ocean less than 8 hours

dinner last night was yummy, by the way

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[luminifer.livejournal.com]

dinner last night was yummy, by the way

ooh, what'd you have? ;)

[flasher.livejournal.com]

lobster and homemade french fries and sweet potatoe fries
meal for 2, roughly 18.00, including butter for the lobster and vinegar for the fries :)

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

i used to drive up with my mom and sisters to mystic seaport in the fall. and the trip would end after the aquarium with seafood.. if we were lucky, it was lobsters -yummy droolish look-

[flasher.livejournal.com]

I grew up in central Pennsylvania and never really liked lobster until I moved here. Lobster shipped down to PA was always bland tasting and meally in texture and I never understood why people liked it so much. Then I moved up here and left a friend convince me to give it another shot.

As far as I'm concerned, fresh lobster is one of the wonders of the world. Definitely one of the better moves I've made was learning to cook lobster myself. MUCH cheaper, much yummier and you can clean out all the green shit in the sink and not have to worry about lobster juice going everywhere cause you're in the comforts of your own home.

My home is literally less than 15 minutes from the ocean and you can get sea food incredibly fresh here. I once bought swordfish steaks at Haymarket and they chopped them off of the still twitching fish and packaged them up. hmmm...hungry now

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

i guess i didn't eat enough lobster when i lived up there :\

what _is_ the green stuff anyway?

[flasher.livejournal.com]

guess we'll have to make if for you if you ever visit :P

No clue. Ahn eats it, which totaly grosses me out but she hasn't killed over yet, so I'm guessing its not as toxic as it looks.

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

an enticing reason to visit. not to say that the company of y'all isn't reason enough.
in fact, the halloween party is tempting but i'm not sure the logistics will work out.. on both sides of the equation.

despite how it might have seemed i have mostly good memories of last year's :)


i've always suspected the green stuff is either brains or poo. not sure though :)

[wandelrust.livejournal.com]

The liver.

Edit: Oops, wrong link first time around.

[gymnopedie.livejournal.com]

-nod- my house that I was raised in was like.. just a few miles from the sea (I grew up on longisland.. right on the south shore by the beaches..)

so there were lots of little fish shops here and there.. the lobster usually was shipped down though, but alive.. and they were in pretty decent quality. i have no idea if i'd ever manage to cook lobster myself -chuckle- because I would have to get it live.. then I tend to name them 'Fred'.. (long story, but my roommate and i, when we went food shopping, would go and stare at the lbosters.. and think up names for them out of boredom.)

but.. the best place for crab, if you like those.. is baltimore..

[flasher.livejournal.com]

We took a bunch back home to PA last christmas for my family and my mom was being sympathic to them. She kept saying how she could never throw something into boiling water alive and she didn't think she wanted to have us bring more down ever again. After dinner, though, she was all "same thing next year, right?" I guess boiling animals alive is fine as long as they are tastey.

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

as john bragg said... "if god didn't intend animals to be eaten, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!"

[starherd.livejournal.com]

But... Pumpkins!
(says the person who still can't quite get a grip on Lobster... hey, adoring good tuna roll sushi is a *big* step for me)