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Lobster Rolls For Your Beach Lunch from The Hamptons to Nova Scotia. Yes

By Linda Eckhardt on July 11, 2012

Lobster Roll

Lobster roll. yum

Lobster Salad for the lobster roll. Yum

Simple, straight forward, and available from The Hamptons to Nova Scotia, this seafood preparation depends on best quality, fresh lobster meat, mayonnaise, and great buns, hot dog to Portugese rolls. Yum. Say yes to the beach! Hamptons here we come.Sit staring at the peaceful Atlantic, under an awning and enjoy your lunch.

lobsters, boiled and ready for shucking.

4 cups cooked lobster meat, cut into bite-size pieces
1/2 cup best quality mayonnaise
1/4 cup finely chopped green onions
1 tablespoon chopped celery
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice + grated zest of 1/2 lemon
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Dash hot sauce
4 hot dog buns or Portugese rolls
Combine first 7 ingredients. Spoon 3/4 cup salad into each bun.

Forgotten how to cook lobster? Check out Woody Allen in Annie Hall. No seriously, just bring a large pot of water to a boil, drop in the live lobsters and boil just until they turn bright pink, then pluck them from the water. Cut them away from the shell. Voila! You’re ready for lobster rolls. For a live lesson go here.

About Linda Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt, is an award winning journalist, food writer, and nutritionist. Her more than 20 cookbooks have garnered prizes including the James Beard prize for the best cookbook for a text she wrote with her daughter, Katherine West DeFoyd, entitled Entertaining 101, Doubleday. Their follow-up book, Stylish One Dish Dinners, Doubleday, was also nominated for a James Beard prize. Their next book, The High Protein Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, remains a best seller after 12 years. That book was designed to accompany low carb diet plans. Her ground-breaking book, Bread in Half The Time, Broadway Books, was named the Best Cookbook in America by the prestigious IACP, The Julia Child award. Her award winning radio work with Jennifer English, for a national show on the Food and Wine radio network, was nominated for a James Beard Prize for a show called, “I Know What You Ate Last Summer.”