A Farewell to Claws

Finally had the old lobster boil on Saturday night. I had one last year in Kittery Point when my Scottish-Californian friends visited on their travels around the country. This year we did at our house in Portsmouth. Here's the recipe (feeds 5 carnivores and one vegetarian):

• Five 2 pound hard-shell Maine lobsters
• 2 pounds of clean Sanders mussels
• 12 ears of corn from the farmers market
• 10 twice baked potatoes with sharp cheddar, sour cream, chives, garlic, butter and a bit of hot sauce
• Garden tomatoes
• Case of assorted smuttynose beers, 30 pack of PBR, bottle of wine.
• 1.5 pounds of melted butter
• Bag of lemons
• 1 $4 voice changing play megaphone to make alien noises with
• 2 female dogs, one that terrorizes the other to the point of chronic mental trauma
  

Made for quite the feast. Followed by a nightcap at the Coat and some of us even moved on to a random after hours party.

Tonight, a housemate and I ate the still still kickin' little neck clams that we didn't have space to include on Saturday.

Farewell, Summer of 2005.