REPORTS FROM THE RIP: There is a bug in my soup.

There is a bug in my bisque

Lobster season is here. Regular Lobster season began this past Tuesday. We had no problem getting our limit in the shallows west of Key West. Fun was had by all. In the States, you can not shoot lobster. You must capture them alive, by hand or net. It is not always easy to just prod one of these silly crustaceans into your net. It can also be quite entertaining to watch from the boat at I drift around waiting for the next snorkeler to hand me up a keeper size bug. The noises that people make through their snorkels is hilarious as they are out witted by a bug. Especially if there are two snorkelers trying to communicate with each other in order to capture one of these cunning beasts. Mummble mummble blurb ra conk he da it ...... no I dont know what that means either but I hear variations of it frequently.
I have had quite a few requests for my lobster bisque recipe It is simple. First boil 3 to 6 medium lobster tails of course the more meat the better. When they come to a boil, they will produce a little bit of foam. Skim this foam off and sit it on a plate. Remove the meat from the tails and chop it up small and set it aside.
A Half a cup of chopped scallions should be cooked down in two sticks of butter. Add the foam that you skimmed off of the boiling tails. Whisk it in. Then add one quart of heavy cream. reduce the heat and add one small can of tomato paste. Stir it in thoroughly. Add salt and pepper and a quarter teaspoon of cayenne pepper. Then add 3 teaspoons of flour. ( I use wondra) This needs to be added slowly so it does not clump. Then add one cup of cooking sherry. Add all of your chopped lobster.
I also keep aside some of the raw chopped green scallions and add them at this point. Now you need to slowly bring this to a boil then back down to simmer and let it simmer for about 2 hours. You can adjust the thickness by adding more flour or water. Enjoy
Other than lobstering, we have done some snapper fishing on some of the wrecks up in the gulf. We caught a bunch of snappers. But we lost alot of them to the Jew fish that live on the wrecks. These 100 to 500 pound beasts were actually swimming up in the water column 60 feet off the bottom to eat our hooked snappers. We were light tackle fishing and only got one 50 lb jew fish to the boat. There is a picture below. Imagine a 500 pounder!!!!!! ( by the way they are protected. ) And Yes I called them by their politically incorrect name JEW FISH