, scallops and filet mignon. While somewhat pedestrian sounding, the preparations were far from it. For example, the mussels appetizer comes de-shelled in a lovely pesto cream sauce with charred plum tomatoes along with a...

I’ve thought about doing crabs on our ride back to DC on Sunday (even though we will be stinking up our ZipCar after the crab feast.) I’m not sure if my boyfriend is into deshelling crabs himself. But I love whacking...

with the Roasted Maine lobster with herb crust, savoy cabbage fondue, glazed turnips. Quickly steamed before being de-shelled and sent on a short trip under the salamander, the lobster had a delicate texture. Once I cracked its...

) claws. But they were good – cracked and prepped all ready for you to de-shell (just enough to make you believe you actually got the experience of eating shell-in crab without all the mess)... so, I guess, I was more than...

... they are just steaming clams. I think it is a fine plate of steamed clams but I was outraged at the time by the surprise of having to de-shell the clams in my soup. Pretty pricy too. For the purposes of this post, sure ... it...

piece, also with some salt and lemon on top. Very moist and mildly crunchy. The best is still having this in the Pacific Northwest. ama ebi – a big arse prawn! Tasted as if it was freshly de-shelled. I didnt' get any head (I...

The lobster and orichette pastas are standouts here but the lobster pasta you have to deshell yourself so it is kind of high maintenance. I like their suckling pig and seabass (which has bones so is also high maintenance). Their...

My turn for the Shrimp Fra Diavolo.... I made MB’s Basic Tomato Sauce, used a bag TJ’s raw but deshelled jumbo shrimp, and the entire amounts of all the ingredients. Four jalapeños – 1 T RPF – 6 cloves of...

Well, I was all set to stun and impress everyone with my grand feats of egg-deshelling, but sadly, this did not work. So instead, I sat at my desk with my cheeks all puffed out, blowing uneventfully into a mostly-shelled egg. The...

, pampering, and the deveining, deshelling and other adjustments that fine dining can offer. I think there’s a place for both (after searching for more serviettes to wipe my hands subsequent to removing the parts to be...

and was a chilled whole I’m guessing atleast a 1 1/4 lb lobster we were very pleasantly surprised. I thinked I was expecting chopped lobster meat in a martini glass with tail sauce. But it was a whole lobster deshelled on a...

's knife. Then I chop, slice, dice, deshell, etc. The filled bowls are arranged on the trays (things that must be kept cold are put in the fridge). I make the ingredients that become ingredients (the shrimp shell stock if...

ps. I bought some fresh fava beans from the Un Sq. greenmarket (farmers market), de-shelled them, boiled them, pureed them with roasted garlic olive oil, and salt and pepper. Then I topped a couple slices of Our Daily Bread...

gadgets and pointed to that egg cutting thing. I thought it silly but could not figure out why. Then the lightbulb went off. My normal method was de-shell, throw the whites and yolks in a bowl, hellman’s S&P and mix. The...

. I used smaller shrimp that I deshelled and deveined. I used much more garlic and ginger (probably 3T of each v. 1 T of ginger.). I also used significantly less oil to cook this. After the initial stir fry, that’s when the...