OT- SV lobster tail, with lobster oil, and mukimo

caliking

Inspired  by a recent thread about lobster. I’ve made the lobster oil before, and it beats the pants off the usual butter, or garlic butter,  dip. 

Made the lobster oil yesterday. Shells, fennel bulb, bag leaves, garlic, peppercorns, tomato paste, and some other stuff. Rested overnight. Strained all the solids out today. 

Learned about mukimo from a David Chang podcast. And , then remembered, that caliqueen gave me the book (In Bibi’s Kitchen) for my birthday 🤦🏾‍♂️ 

Tweaked the recipe a bit, mainly by adding berbere, since the recipe just called for salt to season it. 

Onions, cannellini beans, hominy. Puréed kale, and mashed potatoes went in later. 

The tails were kinda small. Sprinkled some Oakridge BBQ SPOGOS, and topped with butter pats. SV at 140F x 20mins. 

Plated:

Farkin’ unreal, if I do say so myself 😎

Mattman3969

Excellent doesn’t even do that justice. Killer cook!

lousubcap

Blowing it out of the water of late.  Another totally inspiring and impressive cook.  Wow!

JohnInCarolina

Damn.  That’s all I got.

johnmitchell

Fantastic!!

northGAcock

Gawjus. 

Canugghead

Speechless.

dbCooper

Awesome all the way around!

GrateEggspectations

Not sure where you find the time, but you are one talented SOB!

caliking

Thanks for the kind words.

The mukimo really works. It's a complete side - protein, starch, fat all in one. Topped some with a fried egg this morning, and it was pretty damn good. 

caliking

GrateEggspectations said:

Not sure where you find the time, but you are one talented SOB!

Thanks. My usual baking/cooking/prep time is after the fam goes to bed. I do some of my best work in the wee hours of the morning

Leopoldstoch

This cook looks incredible! Well done sir!

DainW

Killin it. 

Photo Egg

Beautiful!
With your posts, many times it makes me google something as well.lol

caliking

Photo Egg said:

Beautiful!
With your posts, many times it makes me google something as well.lol

Thanks. I like cooking things from all over the world, so the googlez helps me too

Photo Egg

caliking said:

Photo Egg said:

Beautiful!
With your posts, many times it makes me google something as well.lol

Thanks. I like cooking things from all over the world, so the googlez helps me too

If I had ANY motivation, you would be inspirational and I would be 20 pounds heavier!

BlueRidgeSmokers

<porn soundtrack playing>    Ungh.

That's it.

YukonRon

Your awesome cooks make me realize about the only thing I might do better than you today, may be drinking a very dry, formerly 2 olive, Bombay Sapphire Martini. Shaken, not stirred.

The preamble of our disappointing meal, compared to your delivery, again.

You Rock.

CTMike

You’re crushing it lately dude.

caliking

YukonRon said:

Your awesome cooks make me realize about the only thing I might do better than you today, may be drinking a very dry, formerly 2 olive, Bombay Sapphire Martini. Shaken, not stirred.

The preamble of our disappointing meal, compared to your delivery, again.

You Rock.

Dude... a martini would have been wonderful with this Now, I miss martinis...

YukonRon

caliking said:

YukonRon said:

Your awesome cooks make me realize about the only thing I might do better than you today, may be drinking a very dry, formerly 2 olive, Bombay Sapphire Martini. Shaken, not stirred.

The preamble of our disappointing meal, compared to your delivery, again.

You Rock.

Dude... a martini would have been wonderful with this Now, I miss martinis...

Had two, I thoroughly do not recommend ding so at 7500 ft elevation, when you are getting up to hike and scale 13,000 ft asl peaks, leaving at 4:00a.m. Just sayin’ the next day was brutal.

Not as young as I used to be.

Bar

Martinis are like boobs………..one is not enough and three is too many