We like to stay home on New Year's Eve and have a good dinner!
Using a wooden spoon as a cradle, place each potato in the spoon and make several parallel slits into each potato top making sure not to slice complete through.
Place thinly sliced garlic cloves between slits at the crown of each potato.
Toss in a medium bowl with butter and love oil.
Place on a baking sheet and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper.
Bake at 400 degrees until tops are crispy and potatoes are cooked through, about 1 hour.
Transfer to a platter and top with Herbed Sour Cream:
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
Kosher salt and freshley ground black pepper
Combine ingredients in a small bowl. Season, to taste, and refrigerate until use.
Take a pair of kitchen shears and hold the lobster tail in your hand. Begin cutting down on side of the lobster tail as close to the side as you can.
Repeat a cut down the other side of the lobster tail. Cut the shell across the middle at the base of the tail. Grab the top of the shell and peel back. Take a knife and cut around the lobster meat. This will make it easy to remove the meat from the shell once the lobster is done.
Lobster Marinade
Prepare lobster marinade of 3 tablespoon of lemon juice clarified butter, with a pinch of paprika, white pepper, garlic powder and salt.
Place loster tail on a sheet of aluminum foil. Spoon Lobster Marinade over lobster tail and fold up the ends of the foil so your lobster tail is completely sealed. These were 8 oz. lobster tails I baked them at 450 for 26 minutes.
Once the lobster is cooked, unwrap the tail, dunk in butter and enjoy! Happy New Year 2010!!
I can't imagine a more delicious dinner! I plan on trying both recipes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFantastic way to cook lobster! It really is the best way to keep the delicate meat sweet and tender. Thanks for posting the how to!
ReplyDeleteI'm having a little New Years Give away too... stop by and enter if you get a chance...
~Really Rainey~
Your potatoes look so pretty. I'll have to try slicing them that way. Of course, the lobster looks wonderful too! Since it's very cold here, I stayed home and didn't go to the grocery for anything special on New Years Eve. We had chicken-fried steak and mashed potatoes with gravy from the new Pioneer Woman cookbook... very much comfort food and very good for a cold winter night! Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWell that looks delicious! Perhaps I'll try that once the children and grandchildren go home and we're once again empty nesters. I've made these potatoes before, to not much success, but didn't have as detailed a description of the process - I'd like to try again!
ReplyDeleteYour dinner looks fabulous. That really sounds like a great way to cook the lobsters. I bet they were delish!! I can't wait to try that................Your potatoes sound great as well:) Happy New Year!!
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