My daughter also subscribes to CAH and told me she made this Surf & Turf and it was over the top, so I decided to make it for my Book Club on Wednesday this week. The recipe is for 2, and I was planning to make it for 10. Now, I’ve never cooked lobster before and at $8.99 per 5 oz tail, I was a little nervous. Not knowing much about lobster, I chose the 5 oz split lobsters over the 5 oz whole tails. I thought it would be easier for me to remove the shell and it turned out very well by using this steaming method. But, I don’t know if the smaller whole tails would have been better. The method for cooking this meal was really pretty easy, and the only challenge was the Lobster Bisque Sauce – which IMO was totally worth the trouble.
A surprise was that my friends were raving about the Twice-Baked potatoes! They are really good with the parmesan and just a bit of lemon zest and tarragon. In increasing the potato recipe for more portions, I had way too much potato leftover and should have saved more of the shells to fill.
I also served this salad from AllRecipes because I really wanted to include pomegranate and for dessert I made a double batch of Orange Gelato from the KitchenAide book that comes with the ice cream maker attachment.
This is a very nice dinner for a special occasion and now I’m thinking this will be our Christmas Eve dinner instead of the Osso Bucco.
A surprise was that my friends were raving about the Twice-Baked potatoes! They are really good with the parmesan and just a bit of lemon zest and tarragon. In increasing the potato recipe for more portions, I had way too much potato leftover and should have saved more of the shells to fill.
I also served this salad from AllRecipes because I really wanted to include pomegranate and for dessert I made a double batch of Orange Gelato from the KitchenAide book that comes with the ice cream maker attachment.
This is a very nice dinner for a special occasion and now I’m thinking this will be our Christmas Eve dinner instead of the Osso Bucco.