A Tale of Two Lobster
Linda and I spend Christmas Day at my mother's house, enjoying her incredible Christmas decor, gift bonanza, and fine dining. This year, in celebration of getting through another difficult year healthwise, mom wanted to do a few special things for Christmas dinner.
So here is a brief tribute to the dinner mom prepared for us on Christmas Day, with a good story about some financial miracle that made it all possible.
The first course were ravioli -- in Italy it is often the case that pasta is an appetizer, not the meal itself. So, we started with the ravioli.
But these were not just any ravioli. Not for this meal! No, these ravioli were hand made. My sister and mother stayed up late into the night on Christmas Eve hand-making the dough and "stuffing". As a courtesy, the traditional ravioli stuffing of calf's brains was passed up in lieu of more palatable beef.
This course was followed by "surf and turf". A beef tenderloin and lobster tails. My sister, while shopping at the local Weigmans, noticed that some of the lobster tails had been mis-marked. Instead of reading $22.50 per lobstar tail, they read $2.50 per lobster tail. Well.. there was really only 1 thing to do in a situation like that: Buy a bunch of lobster tails! Weigmans honored the price as their mistake, which is another great reason to shop there. So we had lots of lobster that night!
Linda and I were in charge of preparing the lobster, which meant almost 45 minutes of shell cutting, tail pulling, fileting, and seasoning. The end result, however, was quite good!
The end result? A good, Italian Christmas! Thank you, mom. Thank you.
So here is a brief tribute to the dinner mom prepared for us on Christmas Day, with a good story about some financial miracle that made it all possible.
The first course were ravioli -- in Italy it is often the case that pasta is an appetizer, not the meal itself. So, we started with the ravioli.
But these were not just any ravioli. Not for this meal! No, these ravioli were hand made. My sister and mother stayed up late into the night on Christmas Eve hand-making the dough and "stuffing". As a courtesy, the traditional ravioli stuffing of calf's brains was passed up in lieu of more palatable beef.
This course was followed by "surf and turf". A beef tenderloin and lobster tails. My sister, while shopping at the local Weigmans, noticed that some of the lobster tails had been mis-marked. Instead of reading $22.50 per lobstar tail, they read $2.50 per lobster tail. Well.. there was really only 1 thing to do in a situation like that: Buy a bunch of lobster tails! Weigmans honored the price as their mistake, which is another great reason to shop there. So we had lots of lobster that night!
Linda and I were in charge of preparing the lobster, which meant almost 45 minutes of shell cutting, tail pulling, fileting, and seasoning. The end result, however, was quite good!
The end result? A good, Italian Christmas! Thank you, mom. Thank you.
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