Bad Recipes and Good Onions Pt. 2

or How To Not Follow A Recipe

In the end I shuffled and cut the recipe cards and drew the beef one; having already decided I didn't want to make the beef one, I picked the next one which was the lobster salad, the recipe I wanted to make in the first place. Our local lobster is in season (as I noted last week) and this recipe is the kind of thing Italian cliches are made of, good ingredients treated very simply.

Here it is in Italian:

And in English:

Salad of lobster with Tropea Onion IGP

Ingredients:

1kg of lobster

200g of salad tomatoes

50g of celery

200g Tropea Onion IGP

50g of olive oil

10g of vinegar

enough salt

enough pepper

enough basil

Preparation:

Boil the lobster whole for around 40 minutes.

Shell the lobster and cut in medallions.

Finely slice the Tropea Onion IGP, the tomatoes and the celery.

Prepare an emulsion with salt, black pepper, vinegar and oil.

Mix the previously prepared ingredients, season with the emulsion and serve.