Butter The Hot Dog Rolls Heavily For Grilling

Lobstermeat

Lobstermeat, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Once you shuck your lobsters, place the lobstermeat in the fridge to cool.

Ingredients For The Worlds Greatest Lobster Roll

Ingredients For The Worlds Greatest Lobster Roll, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Has to be Cains mayo, and hot dog rolls so you can grill them to a golden brown with the salted butter.

Notice there is no lettuce, paprika, celery or any other filler. If anything else appears in your lobster roll, you have an inferior lobster roll.

steam the lobsters and shuck the meat

tear the meat into 1/2 inch chunks or so and mix with cains mayo

refrigerate

once lobster and mayo is chilled, butter each side of cheap hot dog rolls (the kind you tear apart)

you do not want to use any goddamn baguette or crusty overpowering roll

you want white bread tear apart soft hot dog rolls

once you butter the sides of the hot dog rolls with SALTED butter you pan brown the roll so its warm and golden brown

just barely browned but the roll should still be very soft

then load up your cool lobster/mayo filling into the warm soft buttery roll and you have yourself the perfect lobster roll

note- NO  LETTUCE- NO  CELERY-NO  PAPRIKA- NO FANCY CRUSTY FRENCH ROLL

Brickhouse Board Shop, Gloucester, Ma

A couple of weeks ago I posted some pics of guys surfing on the Back Shore. As it turns out it was none other than the owners of the board shop on Bass Ave, Brickhouse.

They carry a decent line of swimwear, shades, surfboards, skateboards and the like. Great place to go for a gift for that teen in your life.

Chickity Check It- Brickhouse on Bass Ave

Brickhouse on Bass Ave, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Nothing Says Classy Like a Big Black Bull

The Manor Steakhouse-Moooooo!!!!!!

The Manor Steakhouse, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Welcome, and Mooooooooooooo!

The Manor Steakhouse

The Manor Steakhouse, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

I’ll have to make a point of getting here for dinner one night.

Don’t Be Fooled

I have been fooled once. Never ever again. Learn from my mistake.

Four years ago we splurged and bought an expensive stainless grill. Looks pretty, right?
Well looks can be deceiving because the entire guts of this expensive grill are rotted away except for the stainless grates. The ignitors, the bars that hold the burners in place, the flame tamers, all rotted to pieces. The original burners have already been replaced (luckily this was after two years and the manufacturer replaced them for free).

I notice at Home Depot and Lowe’s 95% or so of the grills they offer are the stainless variety. They will stay looking nice on the outside of the grill for a long time but there are more reasons than the guts rotting out rapidly why I would advise against buying a stainless outdoor grill.

The main reason is that the stainless steel grills really don’t hold the heat that well compared to those old heavy cast iron grills that we used to buy up until this latest stainless grill fad.

Ultimately you are buying a grill to cook the best food you can. If a grill that is made of thin stainless steel doesn’t hold the heat, then you are really buying an inferior product compared to a much less expensive, heavier, cast iron grill that will retain that heat to sear the meat and keep your steaks or chicken juicy.

Don’t be the fool I was and buy one because it looked pretty.

Never Again Buy an Expensive Grill

I’ll only buy throw away grills from now on.

See this rotted flame tamer? There are four of them. I went to price replacement flame tamers for these rotted ones and they want $64.00 apiece for them.

I walked through Home Depot and Lowe’s looking at grills and most grills use the same type of guts. The kind that will all rot away within 4 or 5 years and need to be replaced. They’ll still look good on the outside, after 5 years but the insides will be all rotted away.

After my grill dies I will only buy cheap grills and use them as disposables, planning on having to replace them after a while but never being taken for the big up front hit.

Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy

Here is George Hardy and his GMC pick up.

George went the plywood bedliner route. Here he unloads traps from the truck to load onto the boat and later set.

It’s that time of year. Trap setting time!

Lobstermen Truck Series -George Hardy

Major Upgrade at Charlie’s Place

Copper flashing and what looks to be slate tiled roofing.

If it isn’t real slate, they sure fooled me, it looks great regardless.

Some very nice touches compared to the old building.

Two thumbs up.

Charlie’s Place Close to Re-Opening

Sign says they are close to re-opening.

They sure did a nice job with the building.

Rosa Rugosa Report- Good Harbor

Rosa Rugosa Report- Good Harbor, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The Rosa Rugosa that lines the shore road by the footbridge at Good Harbor Beach is starting to sprout it’s foliage.

It is quite a contrast between the bright green oily foliage and the thorny dry stems that support them.

It won’t be long before they are covered with green and the beautiful roses appear.

I’ll be documenting this particular bush’s development this year from dormant through the foliage, flowering, and then the fruit bearing stage.

Rosa Rugosa Foliage

Rosa Rugosa Foliage, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

East Gloucester Marine Construction Update 4/26/08

Looks like they are tying the deck into the mainland with rebar.  Close to being done on this advanced engineered pier.  The people that poured the concrete told Manuel who is a dock manager there that he has never poured concrete on a pier engineered to such high standards.

East Gloucester Marine Construction Update 4/26/08

Chili Choice Prepared Foods To Go

Very convenient prepared meals to pick up on your way home from work. Chili Choice is open Mon-Fri 10AM – 6:30PM Saturdays and Sundays 10AM- 4PM