How many of you Love that slot machine game Lobster Mania? I do lol...Especially the bonus round when you get to pick a few markers and the guy starts pulling out the traps to see how big your lobsters are.
Todays lesson was on making Lobster Bisque and it was from the killing of a Lobster all the way to making the soup. Please don't watch the video with the Warning on it if you are disturbed by the killing of live animals. But lets face it folks, that steak, BBQ rib, and fried chicken was at one point alive and then killed for the purpose of making food for consumption. It's life. Yes the circle of life sucks for some of us but we are at the top of the food chain, get over it. Watch the animal channel and the animals have no qualms about hunting down their prey for food. I apologize to those who are highly sensitive on such matters. As Chef said... Please step outside if you can't handle what I'm about to do...
The Worst thing for you to do is to stick a live lobster or crap right into a boiling pot of water. It's like burning at the stake... 2 easy methods for the most human way of killing a lobster (or crab) One is to put the point of your knife at the notch on the back of it's head, plunge into the head and cut downward towards and between the eyes. The other way is to grab the head with one hand, the body with the other then twist and pull to separate the head from the body. As with any living creature, the nerve endings are still active so even though the the lobster is actually dead, it's body will continue to twitch... Freaks me out. <shivers> I can't fillet fresh fish for that very reason. Freaking me out just writing about it...
I'll upload the vids for making the Bisque. It's kind of a long process to explain. It was very good. A little rich so i couldn't eat very much of it. OMG I almost forgot... He made Cheese crackers with parmesan cheese and chives and a Lobster guacamole. Plating the soup was so awesome. He put lobster meat in the middle of the bowl, a cracker on the top, then the guacamole on the cracker and ladled the soup into the bowl... It was Beautiful. Then he went to move the tray of lobster meat and... It all FELL ON THE FLOOR!!!!! So, we only got to have some of the soup and no meat. /cry
One of the cooking stages he adds congac/brandy and lights up a beautiful flambé. That's on the vids too. Then he does a little dance by the fire lol.
I got some Chef names to start researching for my externship... I'm liking the looks of Roy's restaurant in SF on Mission St. Roy Yamaguchi is on the forefront of the Hawaiian Fusion cuisine scene. His first restaurant opened in HI in 1988 and now has several all over the Mainland as well as the Islands. I'll keep you posted on where i'll be headed for my Externship.
That's my blip for my BFFs today.
1 comment:
i don't eat the steak or the ribs or the chicken so I am fine with & entitled to not wanting to hear a lobster scream or be hacked up. "Lets face it" just cuz we're at the top of the food chain doesn't mean we can exploit & abuse animals. No, I won't get over it & you can't make me ;) :p Whatcha going to do about it? ;) lol huh huh? Where's Bonnie when I need her? I'm sure the other crazy Texan will defend her steaks in a reply...Anyway ;) thanks for the disclaimer on this one ;) PS- who craps into a pot of boiling water??? Is this part of sanitation class? I thought you said Poppy Pants was gone?
luv ya!
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