Caviar-a-Thon

When I retired from Bank of America, my team sent my a gift certificate for a complete Lobster Dinner to be flown in from Main Lobster Direct.

We decided to use it for our anniversary. We arranged for it to be delivered on the day we wanted it. Our plan was to take the Lobster only to Campanile and let Mark Peel cook it anyway that he wanted. A BYOL (Bring Your Own Lobster). When it arrived, I took the lobsters to Campanile around 10am and left them. That night he cooked them and they were fabulous. He grilled the split lobsters on the grill, stuffing them with Bread Crumbs and Bacon. He cooked the claws separately, poaching them in butter. We had a bottle of Pierre Peters Champagne and Chateau Y’quem with desert.

The next night we decided to have ALL of the other things that came with Lobster that we hadn’t taken to Campanile and the left over Lobster we brought back. We invited Bea over to join us. We had purchased additional caviar and decided to make a night of it.

Bea arrived with a bottle of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Extra Dry.
We also opened a bottle of Pierre Peters Champagne.
With desert we opened Muscat De Baumes-de-Venise Paul Jaboulet 1997 that Tony had given us.

We started with the left over lobster. It retained it smoky taste and was just as good as at the restaurant we served it at room temperature.

We had defrosted some potato pancakes and served them with smoked salmon, cream fresh and caviar.

We then had the Lobster Stew that came with the Lobster. It was very rich with lots of chunks of lobster.

We had planned to serve the caviar in a recipe we use for caviar pasta. By the time we were ready for that course we decided we were getting so full that we would eat the caviar straight. So we put out the caviar, onion, chopped egg and lemon and dug in! We couldn’t finish it! Ah to have caviar as a left over!

For dessert we had two separate desserts from Perfectly Sweet: a Dulce de Leche mouse and terra misu.
We then had two different chocolate truffles that came with the lobster.
We would definitely recommend the lobster dinner from Maine Lobster Direct.