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Making Lobster Tails at Home for Much Less Than You'd Pay in a Restaurant

May 14th, 2012 at 03:00 am

I have had some serious food cravings this week. Yesterday it was a bacon cheeseburger, and today it was seafood. A good seafood dinner of lobster tails in a restaurant will set you back anywhere from $25.99 to $35.99 per person and that's assuming you're getting the regular 4 ounce one and not one of the fancier, larger ones, or a whole lobster at market price. Fortunately my favorite grocery store had an awesome seafood sale this week and they were selling 4 ounce lobster tails for $4.99. This is pretty much unheard of. I bought three of them. They were raw.

I have only made lobster tails a couple times in my life and that has been years and years ago and involved using the broiler. I wasn't really in the mood to heat the house up that high on such a hot day and the cookbook I used in the past was in storage, so I looked up how to cook them on the internet and I was very happy with how they turned out. It was also a surprisingly fast meal to get on the table, about 20 minutes from start to finish and that was without any help from the kids.

I started setting the oven to 450 and then I got out my lobster tails. They looked like this:



I took a good pair of poutry scissors and cut down the middle of the back of each tail.



You then have to open the cut and work the meat away from the shell and bringing it up on top of it, like how they serve it in restuarants. Remove the waste tube and throw it away and rinse the meat well. Put each tail in the middle of a piece of aluminum foil and dot the meat with butter. You can also season it now, but I like my lobster to taste like lobster and not meat seasoning so I didn't. I wrapped it loosely in the foil and then put each one in a metal cake pan.

I then started the water to boil for my broccoli and cauliflower and when the oven beeped I slipped the lobster tails inside and set the timer for 10 minutes. I quickly cut up my broccoli and cauliflower and rinsed it, then I took three leftover baked potatoes out of the fridge from a big batch I'd cooked earlier in the week and put them in the microwave to warm up (although 3 potatoes would have only taken 10 minutes of baking in the microwave and 5 minutes of steam time if they had been uncooked. When the water boiled I threw in the veggies and set them for 7 minutes.



I pulled out the lobster when it dinged and left it in the foil to stay warm, while I turned to my beautiful fresh pineapple and turned it into this:



I pulled the potatoes out of the microwave, split them and put butter on them.



Then the veggies were done so I drained them, and then put everything on the table. We unwrapped the lobster tails and they looked like this:



Although this meal might be pricier than most, I still came in at under $25 for the three of us (including milk), a savings of at least $50 if we'd eaten this food in the restaurant, more than that if we'd had drinks and not water. And that's with all the items I made being organic and the lobster being wild caught. Not bad if I do say so myself and everything tasted wonderful.

I will return to making meals that are much more frugal for the rest of the week, but sometimes it's nice to treat yourself, without going to the expense of a restaurant meal and this was my Mother's Day gift to myself!

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