Dinner alone with 2 friends; I'm a murderer!

Killed twice today... sorry. I thanked the lobster for a hopefully happy life and stuck the metal pin up its behind. The boiling water was ready and I finished him/her off quickly. Good job, I think.
There are two ways to kill the lobster straight away; Like I described above (and in an earlier blogpost), and there is a more human way. Well, the end result is the same; Cooked meat... This second option is just to tie two lobsters together and throw them in a bigger pan with boiling water. Nice solution for a minor problem.

It wasn't a really difficult practical. Only in the end, there was a bit of pressure - put the chartreuses in the oven over a waterbath, blanch spinach quickly, reduce the sauce, make lecitin in soymilk to thicken the sauce, whisk whisk whisk, and make a frotty sauce, whisk more, then put the plate  in the oven to warm it up and check chartreuses. Un-mould the stuff and plate-up quickly while it's still warm.... Where's chef ???? Busy judging other people's plates... hurry,hurry...

today's creation!

I was very happy with the suace (so was chef), spinach and farce. The only problem was the shitty design of my chartreuse. I ran out of pre-cooked carrot slices, so my chartreuse looked a bit scruffy. Sorry, I'll do better in presentation skills next time.

Raffaele had a good chartreuse I think, but a lousy sauce....

Tonight's dinner will be a nicely cooked lobster chartreuse (or two) with spinach, lobster pieces AND...... an extra lobster.

So, I'll be having two of my lobster friends TO EAT. Wonderful. By the way, I asked chef nicely for it. There was a leftover lobster because somebody didn't show-up today in class. At school, I wrapped it in clingfilm and took  it home safely... hi, hi, he's going to die very soon...

15.00 hrs; I just cooked/killed lobster #2. Reserved the meat and made a bouillon from the bones/carcass. I'll  use that jus for the risotto in combination with my homemade vegetable stock (no Maggi cube in this place!!) Should be a great dinner! Mark M. where are you? Help me out eating some good LCB food here. (picture: tonight's dinner)

Bon appetit to you too!

A demain, Sjoerd