Fresh Lobster Mailed to Illinois

Yup us Midwesterners tried something new this year for Geko’s B-day, we ordered lobster from Amazon.com. I was thinking of trying frozen lobster tail from our local supermarket and decided to check Amazon.com for recipe books on lobster. This all came about because this past summer we took a trip out to New England and had fresh whole lobster for dinner while visiting one of our relatives. My wife had never had whole lobster before and she totally loved it. I was thinking of just getting a book on lobster and seafood recipes from Amazon.com but while searching the site for lobster anything, I came across a link for Classic Live Lobster Combo for Two People by Lobsters-Online, well that got me thinking I should just totally surprise her with a lobster birthday dinner at home. The combo we ordered came with two live 2.5lb lobsters, 20 ounces of clam chowder and bibs and tools. The kit came with directions for making the lobster and even directions on how to eat it and lobster not being native to Illinios those direstions came in handy.

The dinner went over well and we almost could not eat all the food. Our 3year old son did have some reservations about us eating the “obsters”, but we put on a Disneymovie to distract him while we placed the lobsters in the boiling water. Once they were cooked and plated, he was fine with playing with the claws and the shell cracker. Kids…

The kit was complete enough that we might try it again on a camping trip if we can get FedEx to deliver to the campground…

I think we goofed on cooking them though. We boiled them together in a 16qt stock pot. Next time we may just use two stock pots one for each lobster.

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