Ayuh, Lobsta yum...

We arrived in Portland, ME last Friday and drove an hour and a half up the beautiful coast to New Harbor, ME where we stayed at the Gosnold Arms. You know you are getting old (or turning into your parents) when all you can remember about your vacation were the meals you ate. So be prepared to read about every strip of mouth watering lobster we could put in our bellies, because when in Maine, you must eat as much lobster and drink as much Maine beer as possible. Oh and eat enough blueberries to turn your poo blue. And that ends the poop talk portion of today’s blog entry.

After checking in to the Gosnold, we walked across the street (to the ocean) to the only restaurant in town, Shaw's Wharf. As seen above, DG had the lobster, Maine beer, and steamed clams. Duh and of course we had the blueberry pie for dessert.

This was merely the beginning of our lobster and blueberry feasting as we ate both at almost every meal. The next morning, after gorging ourselves on home-made blueberry pancakes at the Gosnold, we got on the Hardy Boat to head to Monhegan Island.

Monhegan is an island 1 mile in length and 1/4 mile across which is 10 miles away from the mainland and takes an hour to get to. Every ship that comes in gets a big welcome from people on the island. Joy and her whole family were waiting for us when we arrived. We felt very special.

Oh wait, but back to the food. At the Island Inn in Monhegan, they served a complimentary breakfast which included Lobster Casserole (which was really a strata) and blueberry pancakes at breakfast every morning. I could eat this every day. It was so good I'm kind of dreaming about it right now. On our last morning there, I asked one of our servers what the recipe was and he recited it to me as if he was cooking for 100 people. The minute he left the table I scribbled it down on something (that I hope DG has) and plan to recreate this soon for six. (Cyn you guys will be invited over for breakfast when this happens.) During lunch, we ate Lobster rolls with chowder and for dinner at night we had full lobsters, or Lobsterman's Pie which was Lobster cooked in heavy cream and sherry and poured into a puff pastry. I may try to recreate this as well someday. If you every go to the Island Inn, I also insist that you have the Blueberry soup with cake croutons. Ingenious. Cake croutons! Not that cake get's old enough in our house to become stale enough to make croutons. The one place we missed out on was Hot Fat. The fisherman that owns this stand goes out, catches fish, comes back and often sells out of the 3 items that he has on the menu because he is so popular. You can see pics of Hot Fat and Monhegan on DG’s Flickr account.

More about the wedding tomorrow...