| Lobster is one of the healthiest foods that you can eat. | | | | Or maybe the problem is that we just don't feel |
| The meat is a popular low fat high protein food that | | | | comfortable with dropping a live animal into a pot of |
| can be used in salads, main courses, dips, omelets and | | | | boiling water. It can be unnerving to the novice to hear |
| so much more. Fortunately both fresh and frozen are | | | | the poor thing bang around in the pot when it is first |
| naturally high in the important omega 3 fatty acids. | | | | dropped in to cook. |
| Consuming fresh seafood has also been proven to | | | | So what's a Lobster Lover to do? Whatever the |
| help prevent heart disease, strokes and improve eye | | | | problem, frozen is actually a good substitute for the |
| and neurological functioning. But sometimes fresh is not | | | | fresh. You can buy just the tails cleaned and frozen. It |
| available or just too expensive. I guess that we could | | | | is unfortunate but true that the frozen tails tend to be |
| all move to the coast of Maine so that we could go | | | | a little tougher than fresh. It doesn't matter how you |
| down to the docks anytime we wanted to find it fresh | | | | cook them there may be a bit of rubberness to the |
| and reasonably priced. | | | | flesh. Nonetheless, frozen is still delicious! |
| We could even bite the bullet and pay the sometimes | | | | But if you are using the frozen as just a part of most |
| outrageous prices that most stores have to charge to | | | | recipes, you actually won't be able to tell the |
| get a live one. After all, they have to pay shipping and | | | | difference. |
| it only stays fresh for a day or two at the most. | | | | So the bottom line is, use fresh if you are looking for |
| There is an even a better idea for those of us that | | | | the absolute freshest most tender taste. But for most |
| don't want to move but still want fresh Lobster. We | | | | recipes frozen is a perfectly acceptable substitute. In |
| could have it shipped fresh and alive to us overnight by | | | | fact, most people won't notice if you use frozen as a |
| one of the many small Maine companies that catch | | | | main entrée. They are still might tasty! |
| and ship their own product. | | | | |