[foot-loose]

wooo - cheers Chralalala!

I may make this tonight if i'm bored. I bought a lobster earlier so i'm gonna try cooking that as well - never done it before.

[kendra k]

lobster and fridge cake? posh as owt.

i think i can make vegan fridge cake. i just need golden syrup.

[foot-loose]

Hell yea! Im up for a bit of lobster!

I got some mussles, scallops, clams and im getting some prawns later.

Fridge cake will top it all off!

[kendra k]

just don't get crabs.

[foot-loose]

I looked at the crabs but they were not as alive as the lobsters. A slightly sadistic streak awoke in me.

[Zoot]

Was the Lobster Alive?
I'd love to give Lobster a go some day.
I did a great sausage casserole last night, and doing pork chops tonight...

[foot-loose]

Ahh see - it was all a bit messy.

I thought that it was more humane to stick the poor creature in a pot of boiling water than to have it killed by a knife. However, Mum was with me and was convinced that if the lobster was alive, it would escape and start running about the fridge so we asked "Stuey" in the fishmongers to "make it dead" (their words, not mine). So he took the lobster (we shall call him Pinchy in tribute to the one outta The Simpsons) and promptly stuck a rather large knife through what I took to be its cranium. Obviously the Lobster didn't approve of such things and twitched a bit more than I expected. We were assured that it would calm down pretty quickly and this was normal.

However, five hours later, we discovered that Pinchy was still very much alive - to be honest, I was pretty shocked about this coz the whole thing was very quickly coming under my heading of "cruelty to animals". So he was promptly placed in a pan of bubbling water.

All in all, the whole thing was a tad messy. In the future, I wouldn't get the fishmonger to "make it dead" as "Stuey" obviously doesn't quite know how to do this. Also, the removing of the meat from the shells was rather tricky and by the time we had finished, the kitchen looked like a scene outta one of the Saw movies with bits of lobster everywhere.

Basically - go to a restaurant and pay a billion pounds and it will be a lot more straight forward than trying to commit lobster murder in your kitchen.

[Zoot]

I would like to nominate Footy for 'Post of the week'.

That had me giggling in my chair.

did you do a homer and eat it all yourself, cause thats what Pinchy would of wanted?

[foot-loose]

Me and mum shared it - Dad was away last night and sister is in Australia (lucky cow!) and they aint too keen on such things so we took the oppertunity when it presented itself.

The mussles and clams were alright but the scallops were a bit ... i dunno what, but i didnt eat more than one. I think if I was doing it again, id make a lot more sauce for the mussles and id prob cook the scallops for longer. (they reminded me of raw chicken on the inside - not a good thing).

Pinchy himself was tasty enough but it certainly didn't look like it had been served in Gleneagles. Tasted nice - looked like a crime scene.

[Yudster]

See, I love lobster and I love crab. As you know, I am totally ok with animals being killed to provide me with food as long as the animals in question have lived a decent life in a sustainable environment and been killed locally and humanely. Shooting things to eat is ok too, deer, rabbits, hares, whatever (to the extent that when I served a roasted haunch of venison to my kids I explained very carefully that it was Bambi we were eating). But I can't be doing with the throwing live lobsters and crabs into boiling water thing. It revolts me, I really don't know why, but it does. So unfortunately, because I really like them, I won't eat crab or lobster. Sigh.

The fridge cake I do is different to Char's - it involved chunks of biscuit, cherries, nuts, raisins and marshmallows folded into a mixture which is basically melted chocolate with a few other things added, and then put in the fridge and decorated with whatever you like. Dolly Mixture is my favourite.

[foot-loose]

But I can't be doing with the throwing live lobsters and crabs into boiling water thing. It revolts me, I really don't know why, but it does. So unfortunately, because I really like them, I won't eat crab or lobster. Sigh.

The way I look at it is that its life was certainly on the cards from the moment it got hauled into a boat out in the middle of the sea somewhere - whether its me that cooks it or someone else is pretty irrelevant to the lobster. The thing that pisses me off is the way it was stabbed through the brain for five hours - that can't have been too nice for it.

The fridge cake I do is different to Char's - it involved chunks of biscuit, cherries, nuts, raisins and marshmallows folded into a mixture which is basically melted chocolate with a few other things added, and then put in the fridge and decorated with whatever you like. Dolly Mixture is my favourite.

I'm in the middle of making this fridge cake - I assume im meant to have added some of the coco poweder along with the crumbs etc? I have done anyways.

Its not done yet, but its a bit like my mums mars bar cake. If it is indeed like that, then im sorry, but mums mars bar cake is going to overshadow it something terrible i'm afraid - it is simply the best thing i have ever tasted.

[MK Chris]

You didn't post your own version? Come on Charlalottie, pull your finger out.

[Zoot]

out of the fridge cake?
Have you not seen American Pie?

[foot-loose]

Well, that may explain that mine looks more like fridge biscuit?!

Its still in the fridge coz i've just put the topping on, but I have a feeling that if I make a few more, I may be able to re-slate the roof with them.

[S4B]

This is my thread of the week I giggled all the way through. Footy you are wasted as a sofa!!!

[foot-loose]

Another couple of these stiff vodkas and I'll just be wasted!