Worldly Cooking: Mother's Day Dinner

This is another one of those dishes that seems very unhealthy and really isn't so bad.

It was Mother's Day and what I wanted was to cook something wonderful. I had no idea what I wanted. A couple days before, for my birthday/Mother's Day dinner with my mom, I'd made my alfredo with crab instead of shrimp. It was REALLY good. So this had to top that.

The grocery store had lobster tails on sale, so I looked up lobster recipes. I found Lobster Colorado. I promptly sent out the husband with a list of ingredients. He's gotten much better at shopping for food!
He brought me back the lobster tails, the last pair of fillets the store had, some red potatoes, asparagus, and spinach.

I started by getting the meat out of the lobster tails. I should have had my husband record a video of it because I looked hilarious trying to figure out how to do this as I've never cooked lobster before, but I managed it! I got all of the meat out clean. I chopped it into bite-sized pieces.

Then to the fillets. I patted them down with basic salt and ground peppercorn. I found myself slicing the bacon in half down the middle because it was way too wide for the short filets. I wrapped the bacon around the fillets and secured them with toothpicks. I also chopped up the potatoes and sprinkled them with salt and pepper.

They went into the oven on Broil for about 8 minutes each side.

While they were cooking, I melted half a stick of butter in a pan with some garlic and paprika (and in the mean time chopped and cleaned some asparagus spears and spinach leaves). Once the butter was melted, lobster went in.

While the lobster was cooking and fillets were broiling, I put the spinach and asparagus in a saucepan to slowly "steam".

Then it was time to take the fillets out! I took the potatoes off of the pan and put them into a covered bowl to keep warm.Then comes the fun part - putting the lobster on top of the steaks and back into the oven with it! So many times, the lobster fell off before we could get it in the oven.

At this point, take the other half of the stick of butter and add it to the pan you cooked the lobster in. I cooked it at just about medium heat until it started getting a brown color to it. As far as time goes, it turns brown just as the lobster in the oven starts browning on top.

Then it's time to serve up! Pour some of the butter sauce over the lobster & fillets, and I also poured a bit over the veggies and potatoes because it was Mother's Day and I was going to enjoy it!