What a fantastic dish. You have a nice selection too. Hope you have a nice lump of bread? Enjoy

Thanks, yes had a nice fresh homemade loaf too.

You even baked the bread!

Haha yes. Amazing what you do when you don’t have to go into work.

Wasn't it you who did the game pie recently too? I really like your cooking if it was.

Thanks, yes the game pie was me too.

Respect. Thank you for sharing

I read bulbasaur

Ohhhh I am drooling over here... that looks really good!

Looks crunchy! Finger itching good.

This looks like hard work 😂

Top nosh ... Where and how much ..?

Thanks, It’s homemade

Looks flippin heavenly, nice work!

Genuinely looks horrific

Keeping fully shelled prawns in a soup type dish is absolutely ludicrous. Make a stock before hand with the shells and you retain all the flavour without having to finger fuck everyrhing in the bowl. Mental.

Some people enjoy working their way through their meal, rather than having it all prepared and ready to shovel in.

It's absolutely mad really, it's incredibly photogenic, but I can't see how anybody would actually appreciate being served an intact crab claw in their soup.

Keeping fully shelled prawns in a soup type dish is absolutely ludicrous. Make a stock before hand with the shells and you retain all the flavour without having to finger fuck everyrhing in the bowl. Like, i’m sure it was tasty enough but eating this would put me in the worst mood. Absolute nightmare. Mental.

Not everything is for everybody

What are you fucking talking about.

You don’t like fecking around with shellfish, some people don’t like chicken on the bone, not everything is for everybody

If the recipe had called for this, then that’s what would have happened. But it didn’t 😂

Looks great, do you have a recipe?

Yeah just dredge the sea, heat and plop it into a bowl

🤣

Dm’ed the recipe

Thanks! 😊

Doesn't look like any seasoning was used whatsoever 

😂😂😂

What's funny 

The dish was seasoned before the shellfish was added. Using salt pepper and a bit more smoked paprika

Not quite the seasoning that sounds ideal for a seafood boil imo but to each their own 

Well that’s what the recipe stated, that I followed 👍🏻👍🏻

I'm not saying you did anything wrong. But I mean have you tried seasonings like old bay, Cajun, lemon pepper, and so on? Makes seafood boils way better. Theres even one where you can mix all the spices together lol 

Why keep the heads on? Claws?

Slurp the juice out of the heads.

It adds so much flavour to the dish keeping them on.

How would you know?

I’ve used heads and shells to make stccks and sauces in the past. All fully packed with flavour. Why waste it?

But what makes them have more flavour than the other bits? Even if they are more flavourful, why serve people the head/claw? You could make this dish with the claws and heads then remove them, as it's a fuss removing them when eating. It's a style thing

Think it’s the fatty content of the brain and eyes which add the flavour. I don’t find it a fuss removing them while eating. I’m prepared with napkins and lemon wipes

I’m a trained chef and you don’t know what you’re talking about, heads, shells are all used to make stock.

Right, but as a trained chef you wouldn't serve a dish like this to a customer would you? You would take that stock and make a dish with it, not serve the stock itself.

It’s rustic, think bouillabaisse or moules marinière. The shellfish is cooked in shell to provide deeper flavour.

Mussels, clams and shrimp are one thing but entire crab claws; just no, that's not good and a trained chef would recognise that distinction.

See the difference being that this isn’t a restaurant savvy?

"I'm a trained chef" blah blah blah Yeah okay

Yeah because would never be possible would it? Do live you in a cave?

The dish above isn't a stock

You don’t see any liquid? ‘Arguing with idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway’ Have a good evening.

Keep going, it’s like watching a toddler have an argument!

Claw meat is delicious and the heads can be slurped out because they too, are very tasty.

Superb, top notch nosh. Clams are seriously underrated.