Steak, hands down. The lobster 'knuckle' meat's good but after that (and claws) it goes downhill texture and taste-wise. Tomahawk ribeye, NY strip, porterhouse.....no contest.
Whats funny is the history of eating lobster. Its only recent history that it is considered a delicacy and expensive. Native Americans were disgusted by them and ground them up into fertilizer. In colonial days they were seen as bugs and they were everywhere. When the European colonists wrote about discovering America they described seeing piles of lobster 2 feet high on our shores. On the trip across the atlantic the servants and ship laborers were fed lobster while the captain and his crew and the aristocrats got other (now less desirable) fish. It's also funny that now lobster is the most requested last meal on death row, when back in Early America they fed prisoners so damn much lobster that it was considered cruel and many states had pity laws that restricted feeding prisoners lobsters to only a couple days a week.
She can't stand the scratching on the inside of the pot and I still haven't convinced her they are the roaches of the ocean. She knows better to criticize and that the the kitchen is my province. I've been lucky in that I'm attracted to women who can't cook. Except I once dated the daughter of the acting capo de tutti capi in the Genovese crime family and she insisted to weigh in on cooking matters so that didn't last. _
Stokes Did you start cooking after your wife passed away or were you cooking even before she was gone? I always thought you learned to cook to take care of your kids but maybe cooking is your thing. Kudos either way. I always admire people who can cook. I can only grill meats and that's it. Can't even marinate meat.
Oh no I learned some cooking from my mother but really I learned most of it when I was in college. As a side job my junior and senior year and first year of law school I was a waiter at The Hotel Syracuse--in their very fancy Renaissance Room--a traditional classic french restaurant. Table side preparation of Caesar Salad and Steak Diane and flambes and the like. My roommate was also a waiter, so we'd watch the chefs in our down time and then when we went back to our house and experimented. There were no college students better fed than my crew--a bunch of guys would buy the food and me and my roommate would prepare extravagant meals. Pounded out or stuffed veal or chicken or beef almost every night with a different sauce, sauteed mushrooms, lots of shallots, pastas, stuffed pork loins or crown roasts, duck breast with berry sauces, coq au vin, scallops beurre blanc, mussells in green sauce, incredible really. I still make the best Caesar Salad of all time--same recipe from the Renaissance Room from 35 years ago. And man did we drink some good wine. My wife was a TERRIBLE cook--best thing she made was Pigs in the Blanket, but my kids loved them. My kids always knew it was dinner time when their mom cooked--the smoke alarms would go off. True story. Been making my lasagna all day today--I'll post some preparation pics later or tomorrow. _
