BLUSHING MAINE LOBSTER CAKES
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Oil a cookie sheet with olive oil. In a medium bowl, lightly beat eggs with a wire whisk. Whisk in the ketchup, mayonnaise, butter, seasoned salt, and paprika. Stir in the pimentos and chives. Add lobster meat and 1/2 cup of the crushed butter crackers. Stir gently to combine. Form the mixture into 8 cakes, using a 1/3-cup measure for each. Dredge both sides of the cakes in the remaining 1/2 cup of cracker crumbs and place on oiled cookie sheet. Flatten slightly to make a 3-inch cake. Bake for 8 minutes, carefully turn each cake, and continue baking for another 8 minutes.
- Drizzle Rosey Sauce over cakes or serve on the side.
- Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and stir until smooth.
MAINE LOBSTER BAKE
Steps:
- The Location
- Scout out the location well in advance. A rocky beach is superior for cooking, but a sandy beach is better for swimming. Decide which will be more pleasurable for your guests. If you decide on a sandy beach, you will need quite a few large, flat rocks, so choose a spot where you will not have to spend hours dragging them in. If your beach does not have a lot of driftwood, you will need to bring about twenty fireplace-size logs. You will also need newspaper and kindling. Organize your wood supply and set up the pit the day before the bake. Bring along a tarp so that you can cover the wood and keep it dry overnight. Make sure there is plenty of rockweed growing nearby; otherwise, arrange for about seventy-five pounds of it. Most lobster dealers have plenty on hand, but it is wise to order ahead of time. The small oval sacs on the rockweed release the seawater that is essential for creating steam inside the pit. Take note of the foods growing near your location. If there are lots of mussels and periwinkles, count them as part of your ingredients, but be sure to check with the Coast Guard for "red tide alert." You will have lots of time to pick them while you wait for your fire to be ready, provided you have a low tide at that time. If you intend to rake for clams, remember that you need a permit in most places.
- The Pit
- Build your pit well above the high-tide line. I have heard disaster stories of waves crashing over the pit and ruining the bake. To cook enough food for twelve to sixteen people, the pit should be about 5 x 3 1/2 feet wide and 3 feet deep.
- On a rocky beach:
- I learned how to build a pit on a rocky beach from my friend John Stevens - a lobsterman and great "bake master" from Boothbay Harbor, Maine - when, about eight years ago, we filmed a lobster bake for a PBS series called "Crazy for Food." You will not always be able to create a pit that is 3 feet deep on a rocky beach, but this is okay because the top of the pit does not have to be flush with the ground. Find an area where the stones are less that 1 foot in average size and remove them from the center as you build up the sides. You may even find an area where nature has started the pit. If you clear 2 feet down and build 1 foot up, you will still have a pit that is 3 feet deep. Be sure your tarp is big enough to fold over the sides of the pit and lay flush with the ground. One advantage of a pit built on a rocky beach is that it can reach a very high temperature and cook food more quickly than a pit built on a sandy beach. Another advantage is that you will not get sand in your food.
- On a sandy beach:
- You will dig the pit 5 1/2 x 4 feet wide and 3 1/2 feet deep. Line the bottom with large stones and the sides with smaller ones. After you add the rocks, the pit will be the same size as that built on a rocky beach. Taper the sides of the pit toward the bottom so that the walls do not collapse. The more stones you use to line the pit, the better it will retain the heat.
- Lighting the fire:
- Have the pit and firewood ready to go. About 3 1/2 hours before you start the lobster bake, stack the kindling in a tepeelike structure with crumpled newspaper underneath. Light the fire; once the kindling is burning well, begin to stoke the fire by adding more kindling, then small logs or driftwood. After they have caught fire, start adding the bigger logs or driftwood; once they catch, use your shovel to spread them around the pit. Continue stoking the fire with more logs until the entire pit is filled with blazing wood. After about 2 hours, when the fire has reached its hottest stage, quit stoking the fire (do not add any more wood) and allow the wood to burn away completely. This should take about 1 1/2 hours. Wet your broom in the ocean and brush away all the coals and ashes; they will settle between the hot rocks.
- Cooking the Food
- 1. Prepare the pit according to the directions above. While the fire is cooking down, start preparing the food. Scrub the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the nearby ocean. Peel the onions, wrap in 4 cheesecloth sacks (so you can have the aroma of onions scattered throughout the pit) and tie the sacks off with twine. Scrub the sea clams and return them to your cooler. Wrap the steamers, mussels and periwinkles in cheesecloth sacks, putting about 2 pounds in each bundle. Tie the bundles together and place temporarily in the ocean - just be sure they are well anchored. Otherwise, return the bundles to the cooler to keep chilled. Divide the sausage into portions. To prepare the corn, carefully pull back the husks without detaching them. Pick away the silk and fold the husks back over the corn. Wet the corn in the ocean a few minutes before you begin the bake.
- 2. Start the bake as soon as the coals have cooked down and been brushed away. At this point, a single person (the bake master) should take charge of the actual bake. That person should have an assistant. Caution should be exercised around the pit: Master and assistant should take their responsibilities seriously, and children should be kept at least 10 feet away. Gather all the food and bring it close to the pit. Make sure the rockweed is moist. If it is not, give it one last dip in the ocean and bring it close to the pit. Bring the tarp to the ocean and soak it thoroughly. Work carefully but as quickly as possible.
- 3. Start with an 8-inch layer of rockweed. Place the whole fish in the center and lay the potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions and sea clams around the fish. Cover the food completely with a 4-to 6-inch layer of rockweed and then distribute the bundles of steamers, mussels and periwinkles, with the sausages on top. Add the third layer of rockweed (4 to 6 inches) over the food. Place the lobsters in the center, back to back (actually tail to tail), forming 2 rows. Lobsters can only move backward on land, so by laying them this way, they will stay put. Place the corn around the lobsters and scatter the eggs about. Place one egg very close to the corner of the pit and remember exactly where it is. Scatter a last thin layer of rockweed over the corn and eggs but do not cover the lobsters. By now the steam will be rising from the pit fairly vigorously. Cover the pit with the damp tarp and place heavy rocks all around to form a tight seal. Place the butter in a pot and set it on a corner of the tarp to melt.
- 4. If your pit is on a rocky beach the food could be ready in as little as 50 minutes, but an hour is the norm. If your pit was made in the sand, the food could take up to 90 minutes. Make sure everyone knows the approximate time of unveiling. Have all plates and utensils ready. Bring the platters near the pit; you can even warm them on the tarp. The bake master and assistant should have their gloves on for the next step.
- 5. Remember the special egg? Lift up the corner of the tarp and pull out the egg. Crack it open. If it is cooked through (hard-boiled), the bake is ready to eat. Gather everyone about 10 feet from the pit. Remove the melted butter and all the rocks that are holding the tarp in place. The bake master should grab one corner and the assistant the other, on the side closest to the gathering of family and friends. Quickly pull back the tarp. There will be a giant burst of steam. When it subsides, the bright red lobsters will come into view. Both the bake master and the assistant will use tongs to remove the food and place it on platters. As the rockweed is removed, it should be spread around the outside of the pit to show that it is still hot. The hot pit cannot be left unattended - a child or dog could be injured. Get a few people to bring buckets of water up from the beach to pour over the rocks to cool them. The others should unwrap the cheesecloth bundles, cut the potatoes in half and set out the food. Put the butter in small bowls for dipping lobsters, steamers, mussels and anything else you want. Allow plenty of time to eat before you bring out the desserts.
- 6. After the festivities have ended, everyone should help clean up. Cover the pit back up with rocks or sand; be sure there are no hot rocks left on the beach. The rockweed can be left on the beach to decompose, but all other litter must be put in garbage bags and taken away. The beach must be left as it was found.
MAINE LOBSTERBAKE
Steps:
- Rinse the clams well, then soak in fresh water for 30 minutes.
- Layer all ingredients in a seaweed wrap in this order: clams, potatoes, and onions next to each other on the bottom, then lobsters on top of them, then corn as the highest layer. Wrap very tightly with a double layer of foil making sure there are no holes in foil (essentially making a pressure cooker). Cover the foil pack with additional seaweed. Light a wood fire. Cook over fire for 30 minutes.
- Carefully open the foil wrap and take out the corn and lobsters so you can reach the potatoes and clams. Separate onto individual serving dishes. Serve with your favorite Garden Salad, Cornbread, and Blueberry Cake.
- Cornbread
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Grease 2 (12 by 18 by 1-inch) baking pans and warm in the oven while preparing the ingredients.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix the dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, mix the eggs and milk together. Then mix the egg/milk mixture into the dry ingredients. Add the vegetable oil and mix. Pour mixture into the hot baking pans and bake for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Beat the egg whites; set aside. Mix the egg yolks with sugar, shortening, vanilla, and salt.
- In a separate bowl mix the 9 cups of flour and the baking powder. Mix the flour mixture with the egg mixture, slowly adding the milk. Fold in the egg whites. Flour the blueberries and then fold them into the cake batter. Butter and flour 2 (12 by 18 by 1-inch) baking pans. Pour the blueberry cake batter into the pans and bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out dry and the cake springs back when touched firmly.
LOBSTER CASSEROLE
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 2 quart baking dish.
- Melt butter in a medium sized pot over low heat. Saute the lobster meat in butter until it starts to change color. Do not cook too long or too fast, or the lobster meat will toughen. With a slotted spoon, remove lobster meat from pan and set aside.
- To the remaining butter in the pot, stir in the flour, dry mustard, salt and pepper. Gradually whisk in cream and milk. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Return lobster meat to the pot. Tear the bread into small pieces and stir into the mixture. Pour into prepared baking dish.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until bubbly and delicately browned.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 473.3 calories, Carbohydrate 17.7 g, Cholesterol 214.7 mg, Fat 33.2 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 25.9 g, SaturatedFat 19.9 g, Sodium 560.2 mg, Sugar 2.3 g
MAINE BAKED STUFFED LOBSTER
Make and share this Maine Baked Stuffed Lobster recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Maine-iac
Categories Lobster
Time 35m
Yield 1 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Split live lobster with a sharp pointed knofe from head to tail.
- Open flat and remove intestinal vein, stomach, and tomalley.
- If desired, save tomalley to add to stuffing.
- Crack claws, remove meat, and cut into pieces.
- Moisten Ritz crumbs with butter and egg.
- Add Parmesan cheese, tomalley if desired, and crabmeat.
- Spread stuffing mixture into lobster cavity and tail.
- Place on baking sheet and place in oven for 20 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 779.8, Fat 54.8, SaturatedFat 32, Cholesterol 551.8, Sodium 2338.5, Carbohydrate 1.4, Sugar 0.5, Protein 68
ROAST MAINE LOBSTER WITH BOURBON AND BROWN BUTTER
Provided by Joanna Pruess
Categories dinner, main course
Time 35m
Yield 2 servings
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- Split the lobsters lengthwise. Discard the sac in the head, leaving the tomalley, and slightly crack the claws. Season the 4 lobster halves with salt and pepper.
- Heat an ovenproof saute or baking pan over high heat on the stove, until the pan is very hot. Add the olive oil. Place the lobster halves in the hot pan, shell side down, and cook until the shells turn red, about 2 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle the bourbon over the lobsters. Spread 4 tablespoons of the butter evenly over the exposed lobster meat in the tails and put a little in the head cavities. Place the pan in the oven and roast until the tail meat is white and no longer translucent, about 10 to 12 minutes. Do not overcook. Remove and place the 4 lobster halves on 2 plates.
- Return the pan to the stove and heat over high heat. Add the remaining butter and the shallots. Stir well, scraping up the caramelized lobster juices in the pan. Cook until the shallots are soft and the butter turns brown. Add the parsley and the lemon juice, stir well and remove immediately. Pour the sauce over the lobster and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 1077, UnsaturatedFat 23 grams, Carbohydrate 4 grams, Fat 58 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 113 grams, SaturatedFat 31 grams, Sodium 2887 milligrams, Sugar 1 gram, TransFat 2 grams
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