So Christmas is just about here... December 21, 2009, 08:25:28 PM ...meaning it's time for my annual Christmas Lobster Gloat :hick:This year was my best lobster haul ever. 48 of the finest quality Nova Scotia hard-shell lobster totaling 51 pounds. If they look small to you, it's because the 1-1.25 pound lobsters are the best tasting. These are about the size you'd find in a fancy restaurant.Anyway, the best thing about these lobsters was their price: At the dock they're getting $4/pound, but these ones were $free. It pays to have lobster fishermen in the family :D Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #1 – December 21, 2009, 08:27:56 PM The cat has the right idea. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #2 – December 21, 2009, 08:47:37 PM I'm more of a steak kind of guy.Maybe a Christmas Steak Gloat for me.LOL.After all,I am from beef country.Good score on the lobsters,though. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #3 – December 21, 2009, 09:09:37 PM How about a venison gloat? Merry Christmas!! Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #4 – December 22, 2009, 12:55:00 PM Gah! Big red bugs. You can have 'em. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #5 – December 22, 2009, 01:26:11 PM Quote from: HAVI;303494How about a venison gloat? Merry Christmas!!ahhhh delicious!!! Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #6 – December 22, 2009, 01:50:41 PM Lobster, Steak and Venison.... MMmmmmmmmmmm.... Now I'm hungry!! Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #7 – December 22, 2009, 02:12:44 PM I've never had lobster...i'd like to give it a try though.As far as steak, and deer meat, well, I've been a country boy since the folks brought me home from the hospital in '77, so that's a staple here lol Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #8 – December 22, 2009, 05:48:56 PM Quote from: oldraven;303553Gah! Big red bugs. You can have 'em.And you call yourself a Nova Scotian... should be banished back to Alberta with the rest of the lobster haters As for deer meat and beef steak, let there be no doubt, there are few things I enjoy more than wrapping a nice BBQ'd steak (RARE, thankyouverymuch and mad cow be ed) around my head, but that's an everyday food. Lobster is a rare treat, even here on the ocean. Deer meat is rare too, especially this year (I only got out four times in deer season so didn't get any meat this year), but since I don't have any I couldn't exactly gloat about it, could I? :D Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #9 – December 22, 2009, 06:10:07 PM My buddy is a lobsterman, You better not leave them out like that long. He brings them back for me from the ship on ice, and when they die there bad. But that looks good. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #10 – December 22, 2009, 10:15:27 PM I grew up on a farm, not a boat. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #11 – December 23, 2009, 12:33:00 AM Quote from: cougarcragar;303490The cat has the right idea.danm right,, you beat me to it. Thats a funny pic there man!good score to, you gonna freeze any of it? Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #12 – December 23, 2009, 12:36:38 AM Quote from: HAVI;303494How about a venison gloat? Merry Christmas!!I have two bucks put up,, but i am working on my hides now.I am gonna try braining for the first time. hides are dry and i got three brains ready to go.dont know if you anything with the hides but if so, pm me. Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #13 – December 23, 2009, 01:14:24 AM Uncle's friend is a taxidermist, so we give him our hides for him to use in touching up other people's deer. We pull the hide off while it's still warm, and use a cheese-type cloth for coverage, until we get into town for registering. On this big one, we caped it for him to use for someone else's big deer that wasn't caped properly. (sorry for stealing yer lobster thunder, there thunder. I think I've eaten lobster twice in the last 5 years.) Quote Selected
So Christmas is just about here... Reply #14 – December 23, 2009, 07:17:24 AM Quote from: Kitz Kat;303594My buddy is a lobsterman, You better not leave them out like that long. He brings them back for me from the ship on ice, and when they die there bad. But that looks good.These ones are beyond dead, they're cooked (lobsters aren't red until they're cooked). They're about the freshest you can imagine: Straight off the boat and into the pot, cooked in sea water, which is THE best way of cooking 'em.Havi: No fear of the hijack, if I'd shot a nice buck like that I'd gloat too Quote Selected