Vacation cooking...

Here's one from last year that I forgot to enter. Since I'm going to try to get back on the blog again, I might as well post this.

Andrea and I had a quick getaway holiday to Naples, Florida with our friends and neighbors, Anne and Dan. We preceded them by a couple of days and instead of our usual dining out every evening, we decided to take advantage of the great outdoor cooking facilities.

Our first meal was a shared dish. A grilled 16 oz.bone in rib-eye steak and a 6oz. lobster tail. The steak marinated for a couple of hours in fresh garlic, lemon, pepper and salt. The lobster roasted right along side the steak, which was allowed to reach room temp before grilling to a perfect medium rare.  A little butter, lemon zest and fresh chopped parsley were simmered in the gas grill's side burner, and drizzled atop the tail for service. Sauteed zucchini, onion, crimini mushroom and garlic was our vegetable side dish, along with salad, there was no room for dessert.

Night two we did not share. We each had 4 wild caught, Jumbo Gulf Shrimp, grilled and served with a chimichuri sauce. Sides were a yellow saffron infused rice with grilled vegetables, onion, red pepper zucchini, and tomato. And a salad with blue cheese dressing, again dessert was not needed.


After Anne and Dan arrived we dined out, except for one night when we reprised both our previous meals adding a nice chunk of halibut to make a really nice feast of it.  The girls had a few cosmopolitans and the boys took on screwdrivers and hand rolled cigars.   Halibut, steak, lobster, shrimp... cosmos, screwdrivers, stogies... that's good stuff!  

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