Lobster Chiffonade
This has to be my favorite Lobster yet. Lincoln made this recipe from 1960's Paris. 😍
I have to say I loved this even more than I love just lobster itself. The lettuce. This sauce. So good! It’s now my favorite way to eat lobster. The coven got our wires crossed and I was home working on cold porcelain flowers and teaching myself about bone china and missed the original lobster dinner. However, it would be nice for the sculpted flowers we make to live on.
Last week, I made the porcelain and sculpted a few poppy petals and made some centers to see how the cold porcelain behaved. I love the temporal and romantic nature of my sugar flowers. They exist in what is their perfection for one day and then they're gone. So, I don't want to cut them out, but think they are more akin almost to performance art in a way. So, I think it's interesting to experiment with some more permanent mediums too. Bone china next ? I'd probably explode a few 100 blooms in a kiln, but it could be interesting to have some pieces that live on.
Thus, and to wrap it up, I missed the original lobster dinner, but the meal made last night from the leftovers was even better! Dare, I say.
Lincoln’s Lobster Chiffonade
Ingredients
1 Egg yolk
2 teaspoons tomato ketchup Heinz
1 tablespoons of tarragon vinegar (homemade)
1 - 2 teaspoon French mustard Dijon
Pepper
Salt
Teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
1 cup peanut oil
Mix like mayo . Once thick, put in 2 teaspoons of very finely chopped fresh tarragon. Plus 1 teaspoon cognac . Grand domaine cognac is the brand Lincoln used.
Romaine lettuce 1-15 leaves pushed flat . Chiffonade the leaves !
Add the lobster meat, 2 lobsters meat 2 lb and 3/4 lobsters.
Mix to combine.
By far, the most bizarre part of this evening was that while we were enjoying a glass of wine after dinner, someone burst through the door. It was a stranger in the dead of night, and she simply said, “I'm here to check in.” We spent the entire next portion of the evening trying to get the woman to her appropriate hotel doing everything from looking up Uber prices to inputting addresses in her GPS for her. I am happy to say Misty found her way home. 🤣
Other Bits:
Getting the attic ready for a new purpose. So, i’ll be splitting my time between that project and experimenting with new mediums and making more sugar flowers back and forth . It’s getting a paprika floor and a pale pink / blush/ touch of peach sort of walls. I’m mixing up both colors custom. Touch of this touch of that 🤣.
^ the garden today.
^ a walk around the lake in Jenkins.
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^view out of the front door at Mamaw’s.
^ cut some flowers for the kitchen island today. Still messing with them.
Poppies started to bud and bloom in pots from seeds I sprinkled.
Happy Monday! ❤️
Alex