Grilled lobster

And so my NYE dinner continued with another starter: grilled lobster – yummy 🙂

Lobster is one of those ingredients that only come to my table o really special occasions. So far only during New year’s Eve but I’m planning a lobster BBQ for my birthday, so stay tuned 🙂

Being a major fan of seafood, I really wish lobster was more affordable. But unfortunately it’s not so I can’t enjoy it as much as I would like to. A couple of years ago, I really went over board and bought 2 big live lobsters for New Year. Oh my God, it was an adventure! I had never cooked lobster and these ones were alive! I had to research a bit to find out what to do. Conclusion: you keep the lobsters in the fridge so they get sort of asleep. Then you get a large pot of boiling water and drop the live lobster in it. It sounds cruel, I know, but they were alive and we had to cook them somehow… After the initial shock, we started to get all excited about it. After the cooking process was over, I cut each lobster in half lengthways and cleaned the inside of the head (Brown bits). I then fried some garlic in butter, spread it over the inside the lobsters and sprinkled some parsley on top. And I finally took it to the grill for a few minutes. After all the work I can guarantee you it was delicious 🙂

This year, I wasn’t even planning to buy lobster. But on my trip to the fishmonger to buy prawns, I came across these “mini” frozen lobsters for €3.00 each. Why not? They kindly sliced them in half and off I went with my 2 little lobsters. At least I didn’t have to kill them this time! And as a little treat, it was really nice 🙂