Recipes for a Mini-Season Feast

Grilled Lobster Tails

Grilled lobster tails are a great way to mix it up from the normal steam bath that tails typically get.

Ingredients

1. Tails
2. Melted Butter
3. Garlic
4. Fresh Lime
5. Salt
6. Pepper

Directions

Follow instructions on how to de-shell the lobster. Once you have the tails out of the shell get a nice hot grill. We will be cooking the tails directly on the fire.

Mince and smash fresh garlic and add it to a tablespoon or two of butter. Melt the butter with the garlic in it.

Brush both sides of the tails with the Garlic butter. Add a small amount of salt and pepper to taste (remember most butter has salt in it and if the tails are fresh they just came out of salt water).

Place the tail meat directly on the HOT fire. Cook for about 1-2 minutes and flip. Squeeze a little lime juice on the tails. Cook for another 1-2 minutes or until the tail has a little color on it.

AMATEUR HOUR

Grabbing the Antennae

It is easy to get caught up in the moment and try to pull a bug out of his hole with your bare hand. Every lobsterman has tried it at some point. Those antennae sticking out from underneath that rock just look too tempting. However, as you will quickly learn this is a fast way to not only scare your catch farther into his crevice but to also sentence it to death.

Spiny lobsters don't have claws to defend themselves, that means their antennae server as their main defensive weapon. Despite this, a lobster will quickly shed its antennae and limbs if they are grasped by a predator. There is no way that you will catch a lobster by grabbing it by anything other than its carapace, so don't even bother to try. Not only will you not have a way to clean the bastard if you do manage to catch him, but he has become an easy meal for smarter predators than you. Studies have shown that the survival rate for a lobster without antennae is substantially less than that of one with even one antennae.

Likewise, you also want to be careful when removing a lobster from your net and measuring it because at that point the lobster is extremely threatened and will easily drop its appendages in an attempt to escape. Remember, those shorts will some day be legal sized and if you rip off its legs and antennae then some fish, and not you, is going to be the one eating it.

PIRATE MUSIC

Brine and Bastards - The Fog