I Loves Lobster

I loves lobsters but I doubt if lobsters could ever love me back because my idea of a good time with a lobster involves plunging it head first into a pot of scalding hot water. Love can be cruel.

This live lobster is almost blue. You'd be blue too if you were about to be cooked.

This live lobster is almost blue. You’d be blue too if you were about to be cooked.

I love how long it takes to eat a lobster; squeezing every little shred of meat from the legs and fins, carefully separating the guts from the body meat, extracting the slivers of meat from the thumbs. I wallow in the mess; juice running up my arms, the discarded shell pieces clinking against the stainless steel bowl as I dip a tasty tidbit into garlic butter.

Cooked.

Not so blue now. Red with rage.

I try and cook more than I can eat so that I can have left-over lobster for lunch.

Lobster sandwiches for lunch.

Lobster sandwiches.

Some of us had lobster at the Bicycle Thief on our wedding night….

Lobster tortellini

Lobster tortellini

…..and we celebrated our first anniversary with lobster.

..and so do I.

Lance loves lobster too.

So it should be no surprise that I want to paint pictures of lobster.

The beginning

The beginning

 

Lobster waiting for details.

Lobster waiting for details.

 

In the works.

In the works.

 

The finished piece. It now hangs in our kitchen.

The finished piece. It now hangs in our kitchen.

 

Aunt Salome

 

Today’s post is dedicated to my Aunt by marriage, Salome Iris Short, who sadly passed away on July 29th, 2013, just short of her 73rd birthday. Who will eat the lobster bodies now? May you rest in peace Aunt Salome.

 

1 Comment to "I Loves Lobster"

  1. Your famished sister Mary's Gravatar Your famished sister Mary
    08/14/2013 - 6:28 am | Permalink

    Retirement is grand, isn’t it!!! Wish I was there to partake of your culinary delights. Busy all summer with kin coming and going. Tickets to the Trinity Pageant and dinner theatre on Saturday. Our 40th anniversary on Sunday. Will be busy at Penny’s with all the hockey players there and Joely in hockey school.

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