Lobsters & Clams for Valentine's Dinner

For Dave's Valentine's Day gift this year, I went on-line to Catch A Piece of Maine.com and ordered "A Valentine's Dinner for Two". It was a fresh catch of 2 live 2lb. lobsters, 1 lb. of fresh clams, a box of chocolates, 2 lobster bibs, 2 lobster crackers and picks, and a 2009 Catch of Piece of Maine calendar. The little critters were caught on Tuesday, (2/10/09), packed in dry ice and shipped on Wednesday by FedEx overnight to Dave's work address. He was surprised and delighted to get his favorite food for a Valentine gift early Thursday afternoon. Dave was all smiles when he came that home with the box. And when he opened it up and saw the size of the two little guys, he smiled even more and licked his lips and grabbed the pots and pans and started the water boiling. But first I had to take a couple of shots with everything spread out to show you what all we got.

Well Dave got busy in the kitchen, cooking.

When everything was ready, we sat down to enjoy our meal. Dave said it was the best Valentine's Day gift he was ever given. And it must have been good, because the only thing left was the skeleton. So, even though we had our Valentine dinner two days early, it was very good and the guys at Dave's job are all wishing that their wives would have thought of doing something like that for them. Dave just smiles and says "yea"...