Ludo à la Maison - Lobster Thermidor
Ludo details a classic holiday preparation of lobster and throws shade on Super Bowl champion Tom Brady.
Lobster Thermidor with Embark Maine Tours
There are lots of ways to eat lobster other than steamed and cracked at the table. Some are even a lot less messy - at least for your guests. This recipe comes to us from Heather’s great grandmother, Nana Martha, typed up on an old, yellowed index card. The cook will need to steam and pick some lobsters, but the guests won’t require a bib and a roll of paper towels for this one.
Traditionally, this rich dish was prepared, then placed back in the empty lobster shells to serve. We’re going to make this really easy, and serve it in a casserole dish, sans shells.
Our guest this week is Meg Barker, of Embark Maine Tours. She offers walking tours of historic downtown Bath, Maine. Watch the demo to learn more about the tours she offers and we're counting on her to sprinkle in some fun and interesting tidbits about the City of Ships during this week's demo.
Here's the recipe Louisa and Meg will be making:
Big Mistakes Everyone Makes When Cooking Lobster
Though lobster was once so cheap that it was fed to prisoners, according to History, it is now undoubtedly a luxury food. It's a mainstay on fancy restaurant menus, with preparations sure to wow and impress. It's near the top of the seafood hierarchy, to be sure.
If you don't want to spend the big bucks on a lobster dish at a restaurant, and you'd prefer just to make it at home, there are definitely some important tips to keep in mind. Just doing what you think is right based on what you've seen on TV may cause you to end up with some rubbery and unappetizing shellfish. Do yourself a favor and avoid these big mistakes everyone makes when cooking lobster.
#Mistakes #Lobster #Cooking
Being intimidated | 0:00
Buying at the wrong place | 1:05
Choosing the largest lobster | 1:52
Overcooking | 2:43
Undercooking | 3:24
Only boiling | 4:16
Cooking your lobster alive | 4:56
Crowding your pot | 6:04
Never roasting your lobster | 6:45
Buying frozen lobster | 7:24
Too many ingredients | 8:22
Not saving the tomalley | 9:04
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Baked Stuffed Lobster at Stonehurst Manor
Baked Stuffed Lobster at the Wild Rose Restaurant at Stonehurst Manor, a boutique hotel in North Conway. Indulge in the best of New Hampshire dining while relaxing at this turn-of-the-century mansion located near the White Mountains.
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Lobster Palaces|Rector’s Lobster Thermidor|Evelyn Nesbit & Murder of Stanford White
Recipe:
We’re going back to the turn of the century in New York city to learn about the scandalous Broadway Dining scene. Lobster palaces like Rector’s became the place for rich and powerful New York men to wine and dine Broadway chorus girls. Known as stage door johnies (essentially groupies), these wealthy men in top hats lined the stage doors waiting to whisk starlets away in Hanson cabs to a lobster and champagne dinner. We’ll make a Rector’s restaurant specialty: lobster Thermidor, which is appropriate for the theatre scene, actually getting its name from the French Belle Epoque Play, Thermidor. New York was changing around the turn of the century…electric lights lit up the great white way…skyscrapers were going up…way up. And we’ll discuss the crime of the century: the murder of Famous New York architect Stanford White. It’s quite a story: two stage door Johnies who battled it out for the affections of the most famous showgirl, model and original it girl…Evelyn Nesbit.
Rectors was by far the most famous Lobster Palace. Not as respectable as world famous Delmonico’s or rival Sherry’s where Mrs. Astor’s 400 dined… Rector’s was something else entirely. What it lacked in esteem, it more than made up for in drama. At Rector’s, which was actually ON broadway, you could catch a glimpse of a starlet making a grand entrance after a show just steps away from the theatre. Broadway plays were written about the risqué restaurant like “the girl from Rectors” & “if a table at rectors could talk.” At Lobster palaces, men showered beautiful young women with gifts, champagne and ordered the most expensive dishes on the menu… It was not uncommon to see a woman open her napkin to find diamond trinkets tucked inside. The scandal to this was that many of these adoring men already had wives and families at home. A respectable courtship would not include a late night unchaperoned dinner at Rector’s.
Let’s cook! I’m using Rector’s authentic recipe for Lobster Thermidor. The recipe calls for a cooked lobster. We’ll cut it in half, reserve the cooked meat aside, make a cream sauce, fill it back up with lobster and mushrooms, top it with cheese and broil it.…obviously you’ll need a lobster. if you object to killing a live lobster, you can purchase one cooked from a local seafood shop. If you’re up for a little lobster execution yourself, you can freeze the live lobsters for 10 minutes before boiling, which apparently puts them in a sort of sleep. or for the really bold, plunge a knife into it’s head, killing it completely and cut it right in half and boil or broil. Choose your own adventure. As with many famous dishes, there are disputed origin stories. One ties this dish to Napoleon. I choose to believe the story that links lobster Thermidor to Parisian restaurant Marie’s in the 1890’s in honor of the premiere of a play called Thermidor. Regardless of origin, it remained incredibly popular well into the Edwardian era. There are many variations, some with wine, mushrooms and shallots. Some have cheese and breadcrumbs, some without. I was thrilled to find Rector’s very own recipe. There’s a link to step by step instructions at the very top.
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0:00 Intro
1:14 Rector's Restaurant
2:20 Cooking Lobster Thermidor
3:59 Murder of Stanford White/Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Thaw
7:19 Diamond Jim Brady & Rectors
8:17 Taste test & outro
Sources:
Freedman, Paul (2016) Ten Restaurants That Changed America
TimeLife Books: American Cooking The Eastern Heartland
Baatz, Simon Girl on the Velvet Swing
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Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe with Garlic Butter (2018)
Grilled Lobster tails are so good! They are very easy to make also. In this Grilled Lobster Tail Recipe video, I teach you how to make them so that you don't overcook them. I will also teach you a delicious garlic butter glaze that will set them off and make for a perfect pairing for your steak.
Grill Lobster tails till they reach an internal temp of 140 degrees baste thought the cook with the Garlic Butter.
Garlic Butter recipe
1.5 sticks of unsalted butter
2 lemons
2 garlic cloves
pinch of cayenne
hald a handfull of parsley
salt
pepper
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