Thursday, July 2, 2009
Au Canada - Day 8 - The Lobster Feast!
Thursday, July 2 - Gaspe, PQ
As I mentioned in my last entry, this entry will be totally dedicated to our "Lobster Feast". If you remember, I mentioned that we purchased these lobsters just prior to boarding the ferry to PEI. It was less than 6 hours later when we cooked them and absolutely devoured them! Talk about fresh! If you've never had lobster right off the boat, you can't know what you missed.
As I mentioned, these were 3-pound lobsters with extremely hard shells. We steamed them for 25 minutes in the pot, then served them with potato salad and cole slaw and plenty of beer/wine and melted butter! I can honestly say that I have never tasted a lobster as sweet and tender as these were! By the time we were finished, all that remained of our feast was a bowl FULL of shells and most of the potato salad and cole slaw (we were too busy eating lobster to worry about them)! This was the only way to enjoy, truly enjoy, a lobster dinner. We had thought about going out to a local restaurant for lobster several times, but decided to wait until we could buy them fresh and eat them outside at a picnic table, where we wouldn't have to worry about getting it all over ourselves, or looking like slobs devouring them. We had a beautiful evening for eating outside, with the city of Charlottetown across the river and the sun setting over the city, it was perfect! In addition to this being a wonderful feast, it was also a celebration of Kathy Burch's B'day. It was the ending to a wonderful day. Incidentally, this was one of two sunny days on this whole trip!!! But it did not prevent us from doing what we wanted to do and having lots of laughs! Guess we did not escape the rain by heading north.
Here's the link to the web album for "the lobster feast!":
http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/AuCanadaDay8TheLobsterFeast?authkey=Gv1sRgCMSq982jq5mfQg&feat=directlink
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Hey!! What's up? No tail for Chad? It looks like your having fun and good weather! All it has been doing is raining here!!!!! Temps no higher than the low 60's!!!
IT SUCKS!!! Dick and Elaine changed the date of the party to the 5th because of the weather. Yor blog is great. Can't wait until the next one is posted. Have fun. Rick and Deara
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