Tonight my husband and I stopped at the fish market to pick up a couple of lobsters for dinner. I wanted 1 1/2 lb. lobsters, but they were all gone, so we opted for a 3+lb fella. We got them to throw it in their pot and was told to return 20 minutes later, to pick up the cooked lobster. We arrived a bit earlier and I began to purvey their tank of lobsters. There were some actually gigantic ones and I asked the fish monger how much these bigger ones would weigh. He regaled us with selling 19 and 22 lb lobsters the week before and pulled a live one from the tank. 14lbs! Those were some really big claws, or, to quote the fish monger, "Gonna need a lot of butter." When asked to estimate the age of a large lobster he said the rule of thumb was 5 years to 1 pound. So the lobster we ate tonight was 15 years old. I feel kind bad, eating a teenage lobster, but she was delicious. The coral was consumed by a kitty who has taken to dropping by at dinner time. Everyone was purring by the end of the meal.
Lobster is apparently very good for you. 3 1/2 oz. of lobster meat, without butter, is only 90 calories, compared to 163 for chicken and 280 for sirloin steak. It also has omega-3 fatty acids, the "good " cholesterol that seems to reduce hardening of the arteries and decrease the risk of heart attacks. Lobster is very low in Saturated Fat, a good source of Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc, and a very good source of Protein, Vitamin B12, Copper and Selenium. With some fresh corn on the cob, this meal was a delight of summer.
Tonight my husband and I stopped at the fish market to pick up a couple of lobsters for dinner. I wanted 1 1/2 lb. lobsters, but they were all gone, so we opted for a 3+lb fella. We got them to throw it in their pot and was told to return 20 minutes later, to pick up the cooked lobster. We arrived a bit earlier and I began to purvey their tank of lobsters. There were some actually gigantic ones and I asked the fish monger how much these bigger ones would weigh. He regaled us with selling 19 and 22 lb lobsters the week before and pulled a live one from the tank. 14lbs! Those were some really big claws, or, to quote the fish monger, "Gonna need a lot of butter." When asked to estimate the age of a large lobster he said the rule of thumb was 5 years to 1 pound. So the lobster we ate tonight was 15 years old. I feel kind bad, eating a teenage lobster, but she was delicious. The coral was consumed by a kitty who has taken to dropping by at dinner time. Everyone was purring by the end of the meal. 
Lobster is apparently very good for you. 3 1/2 oz. of lobster meat, without butter, is only 90 calories, compared to 163 for chicken and 280 for sirloin steak. It also has omega-3 fatty acids, the "good " cholesterol that seems to reduce hardening of the arteries and decrease the risk of heart attacks. Lobster is very low in Saturated Fat, a good source of Phosphorus, Potassium and Zinc, and a very good source of Protein, Vitamin B12, Copper and Selenium. With some fresh corn on the cob, this meal was a delight of summer.
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