So, there’s this old woman who lives in my neighborhood on the main road. People use this road as a thru-way from one big road to another, sometimes. Anyway, from the time the Orange Turd rode down the elevator in 2015…16, whenever…she was all in with the cult. Her yard had a huge Trump flag with the American flag. And she also had a Catholic flag on the pole for a while. She had a string of pennant flags that, though they were small, appeared to be Trump related, hanging from her eaves, Trump, Trump, Trump. And signs in her yard: Trump/Pence and then Trump/Vance.
The woman is nuts.
One time during Trump’s first term, I drove by her house and, as I often noticed, her flags were a disgrace. Hubs slowed the car so I could snap a picture.
She must have noticed because the next day, new flags were up. She must have had them ready to go but was too lazy to change them out until she saw someone noticed. But this picture, for me, epitomizes our country under the Trump regime. A complete disaster.
Well, he got elected again because of stupid, racist, cretins like her. But after about a month in office this year, things in her yard started to change.
First, the Trump flag came down and a new one never went back up. Then the yard signs disappeared. And now the flag banners are gone.
What happened old lady? Did Trump do something to make you change your mind? All the shit he’d done up to that point was okay with you? But now, suddenly, he’s hurt something or someone YOU love.
Fuck you, lady.
So, this week we made Lobster Roll from the Sea World Seven Seas Food Festival list. I figured I would really like this one. I’ve had lobster roll before and after tasting this one, I think some of them were actually made with real lobster.
We looked in our local grocery stores for lobster and didn’t find any so we googled and found this fresh seafood market uptown. We drove through a huge rainstorm into some sunshine to find ourselves in an unfamiliar part of town. It was a bit…industrial.
But we found the shop and almost went in the wrong door. One of the employees called out to us to go around front. If we went in that door, he said, they’d put us to work. So, we managed to find the entrance and walked in to a crowded, fishy-smelling (in a good way) shop and wandered toward the back where there seemed to be a counter. We had no idea what to do.
A guy asked me what I wanted and I told him: a pound of lobster meat. He asked if I wanted tail included and I, the princess, said yes, knowing full well that would make it more expensive. Because why else would he have asked, right?
He took my name and we were left to explore all the cool stuff they had for sale. Sauces, dips, seasonings, and drinks. They had an enormous white board on one wall with every kind of fish possible on it. At one point they apparently ran out of hogfish and a dude had to run out and erase the hogfish or something. I didn’t notice exactly what he did because my name was called.
We paid $51 for a pound of frozen lobster meat! Well, they did give us a lemon, too.
It was so expensive that we decided to thaw only half of it and make two sandwiches instead of four. So this weekend, I’m going to thaw the rest and pour garlic-y melted butter on it and just eat it!
We used this recipe for our lobster rolls. We halved everything, of course. And we used regular hot dog buns that we buttered and broiled first. We made a mistake because of the way steps 2 and 3 were written. I had read the entire recipe the day before so I have no excuse, but instead of adding the ingredients into a bowl and mixing before putting in the lobster, we started dumping them right onto the lobster.
Luckily we figured it out and did our best to take the lobster out and continue the right way. When we’d finished mixing it all together, though, it just looked dry. So added a bit more mayo.
In the end, it was delicious.
Lobster is really rich, though. It made me just a touch sick to my stomach. That half pound probably could have made four sandwiches. That, and the cost of the lobster, make this something I wouldn’t make often…or maybe ever again. But this one was a winner.