Surf & turf and more surf

sheetmetalpete · May 2017

Taking a cue from Seinfeld's "Summer of George", I had a "Weekend of Me". It involved seafood & red meat. How can that be bad, right?

Dinner #1:

Soft shell crab. Dusting of Old Bay and grilled direct. Sorry for only having a "before" picture. Things were moving fast! It was good but I think I prefer them fried.

East coast oysters with a dash of Tobasco, butter & garlic.

Swordfish steak. Finished them with a lemon, garlic, basil butter.

Spiralized zucchini to go with the swordfish.

And finally some spicy steam mussels

Dinner #2

Seared scallops. A crust would have been nice but I was willing to forego the cast iron in order to opt for a little smoke. Maybe next time but I don't have any complaints about these.

And finally a reverse seared prime New York strip.

It was a good weekend. Thanks for looking!

Cookbook_Chip · May 2017

Awesome looking grub

saluki2007 · May 2017

Busy weekend of great food. Wish I could score some surf locally like that.

sheetmetalpete · May 2017

saluki2007 said:

Busy weekend of great food. Wish I could score some surf locally like that.

Thanks! I had to drive an hour one way to source this. I don't see it happening again any time soon so I thought I'd make it worthwhile.

StillH2OEgger · May 2017

I always tell my wife around this time that this is going to be the Summer of George, but it usually ends up more like how Costanza's turned out. You, my friend, are off to a great start!

camofreak · May 2017

Very Nice

YukonRon · May 2017

Surf and turf for sure. Beautiful cook, loved all of the images. My Beautiful Wife loves crab, and I never risk being close to her plate when it is served, I could get seriously injured just by gazing at her plate......
The scallops looked awesome, I do them with a light smoke on the grill, I hve been using sugar maple mostly, with a very light glaze, which gives them bit of firmness, yet enhances the flavor exceptionally well.
Outstanding post and presentation.