Grocery Deals and Epic Fails.

$3.00 lobster tails and a brand new crock pot. That's how today's food excursion started.

Riding high off of a few great grocery steals and the itch to get back to cooking, I wanted to get back home to make a pound cake dessert.

The recipe, stemming from my crock pot cookbook (which I will NEVER use again for anything other than soup or stew), called for berries in the middle of the pound cake.

Basic cooking math dictates that when something is in the middle of a dish, especially if it is a cake, the cooking time changes.

Then tell me, stupid Crock Pot cookbook, why you would call for a pound cake to be cooked on high for 1 1/3 hours.

Let's just say, it was a disaster. My pound cake burned on the outside, didn't cook at all on the inside and failed altogether. I didn't even bother trying to save it, it was beyond repair.

Today's saving grace was the lobster tails.

Oh my, thank you ocean life.

Put a frying pan on medium high and add a 1/2 cup of water
Butterfly the lobster tails, pop 'em in, throw a lid on and steam for 8 minutes.

Fire engine red tails with clarified butter and a bit of fettuccine linguine is one helluva meal.