Maine Lobster or Shrimp – It's a Delight for all seafood lovers

If you are a seafood lover, and you have to choose between the Maine lobster or Shrimps, you will have a dilemma for opting one. A true seafood lover ought to be striving for the taste of any of these items.

You can never find a seafood lover, who does not like to taste the lobster. The goodness of a lobster can only be tasted, it cannot be shared. If you want to pick the best of the lot, the Maine Lobster is the most desirable one you will get among the answers. It is found on the Atlantic coast of North America, mainly from Labrador to New Jersey. People of North America also call it 'Northern Lobster'. Generally they can reach a body length of 25 inches having a weight of over 20 kilograms, making it the heavyweight crustacean of the world. They can be found in various color variations, but usually they are brown or bluish green with red spines.

Maine, which is known as the 'Lobster capital of the world', is the desired destination for the lobster lovers. If you are a seafood lover and possibly visit the north eastern United States, you should go to Maine for its famous Maine Lobster. In earlier days, it was considered as a food for poor fishermen, but now a days, it is considered as a ultimate delicacy of the elites. In fact, it is in high demand of the five star restaurants throughout the world. This delicious item is also very healthy if you suffer from tension.

But only choosing the Maine lobster is not the ultimate thing. You have to cook it in the proper way. You should know that the Maine lobster tastes best if it is fresh and alive. You should cook it as soon as you get it. But if it is not possible to cook it right away, you should wrap it with a moist cloth and store it in the coldest part of your freezer. You can store it maximum of two days, after that the lobster will begin to rot. You should not store it within a air tight container. That way, it will die immediately. You can cook a Maine Lobster in two different ways- boiling or steaming. While cooking the lobster, you should add some salt to it to make it more delicious. When it is cooked, it's shell will turn into bright red. After cooking, you should serve hot your favorite Maine lobster with melted butter.

If you are a true seafood lover, you cannot resist tasting the shrimp. You can't resist the shrimp with peas and rice or shrimp-curry with rice. There are various delicious items that have shrimp as an ingredient. Coconut shrimp, Garlic shrimp, bacon wrapped shrimp are the few to name. Among the other sea foods, shrimp is high in calcium, iodine and protein, but it has very low content of food energy.

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Make Smith who is a chef has vast knowledge on Maine Lobster . For more information on shrimp recipe he suggest to visit http://getmainelobster.com/

Author (makesmith007). Submitted on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 Time: 5:53 AM

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