lunch @ castle on the hudson preview.



So I've been crazy busy, like epic proportions busy and let almost everything I do for myself fall to the wayside.

For example, I took these photos in July and am just getting around to posting a preview. I plan on having a more substantial post this weekend.

Suffice to say I still dream of some of these dishes.. creamy, buttery, delicate nomness.  This was one of my favorites: lobster wrapped in another fish and oozing with deliciousness.

Castle on the Hudson is one of my, "if I had an unlimited budget," wedding venues, but since I don't and since it's around $250 a person I'll have to remember my lunch there with fondness.

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I think I might not like to eat whole fried things



So I made soft shell crabs, whitebait and fries and I dunked them all in the hot oil of my cocotte-cum-deep fryer.

The whitebait I got from Wild Edibles. I've gotten bad shrimp from them before, but the mussels I had from there were spot on so I gave them a try. These fishies were bitter. Me no likey too much after the inital omgcrunchy taste.

I got the crabs from there too. They seemed more lively than the ones at Pescatore.

The fries are my favorite frozen bag kind: Nathan's.

It's becoming harder to find them, but I gotta good supermarket source that's only about 9 blocks and an avenue away from me. :D


Now the problem is I get a little queasy when I eat these creatures whole.