Week 25: Regional - Lobster Rolls 2 Ways, Boston Baked Beans & a Cape Codder

Which state am I from? Answer after food talk.

The Cape Codder is cranberry juice, vodka, a squirt of lime juice, and a lime wedge for garnish. Nothing is prettier than a cranberry bog. Google it. Seriously.

Boston Baked Beans. Typically I buy the B&M brand in a can. Always relished getting the one bit of pork fat in the can. For this recipe, I used a whole brick of salt pork, so I can have a bit in every bite!

Recipe:

Cover dried navy beans in water for a few hours or overnight. Save the juices.

Chop up some salt pork. I bought a 4x4" brick in the pork section of Stop & Shop.

Slice an onion.

Mix a cup of Molasses, tsp of dried Mustard, tsp of Salt, tsp of Pepper, and a quarter cup of brown sugar.

Mix all ingredients minus bean juice in a Baked Bean Crock, or a Crock Pot. Add bean juice to cover, add water if need be. Cook, covered, in oven or Crock Pot at 350 or high for about 4-5 hours.

Lobster Rolls

I don’t own a vessel large enough to steam one lobster, let alone 2. I had the fishmonger steam them for me. Maybe when I move at the end of the summer I’ll have room for such endeavors.

Shuck the meat out of 2 steamed lobsters, about 1.5lbs each. Mine had pitted and ugly shells. This is good. You want them before they molt. The shells will be harder to crack, but the meat is packed tighter than a freshly molted lobster. Then you won’t be sad when you don’t get as much meat as you thought you would have gotten. Use the internet if you don’t know how to shuck a lobster. It took a lot of willpower not to eat the meat right then.

Righto. One lobster meat was chilled, then I lightly mayoed it, and put it into a couple Buttered and Toasted New England Stylehot dog rolls.This is also known as a Lobster Salad.

The second lobster meat was warmed back up in drawn butter (ghee) then also stuffed into a couple buttered and toastedNew England Stylehot dog rolls. Maybe squirt with some lemons if you please. Authentic!!!!!!!

THEN YOU EAT THEM ALL! I prefer them hot and buttered myself.

The answer is: Massachusetts.