Potted Lobster Stew
This aromatic stew is as pleasing to cook as it is to eat.
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Cooking tools:
- Fireplace
- Dutch oven
- Shovel
- Pot
- Stove
- Skillet
- Colander
- Mixing bowl
- Chef's knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- 16 tbsp. (½ lb.) unsalted butter
- 12 oz. hen of the woods or chanterelle mushrooms, cleaned, trimmed, and sliced
- Sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 6 (1 1/2 -2-lb.) live Maine lobsters
- 24 small or 12 medium halved thin-skinned potatoes, such as fingerlings or white creamers, parboiled
- ½ cups calvados, bourbon, or hard cider
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
- 1 medium shallot, peeled and minced
- Leaves of ¼ bunch parsley, chopped
- 12 chives, chopped
- 6-8 sprigs chervil, chopped