Just a quick reminder to watch me on QVC tonight, at 8:30pm EST. You can snag yourself a copy of my new book, due out next month! See you live, friends!
I feel like lobster is having a moment this summer. No? Just me? Me, all alone in the corner with a lobster tail in my mitts and butter running down my elbows? Sorry for that visual...
I had a box of lobster tails in my freezer (thanks to my partnership with Omaha Steaks (hello, #DREAMJOB)), and I imagined coating them in a cream sauce. I am always imagining coating things in cream sauce, but the thing is, I rarely make a true cream sauce. I take a big shortcut: I plop in a heaping scoop of mascarpone into the hot pasta pot, stir stir stir, and call it creamy pasta. I've used this same trickery before with yogurt in my 5-ingredient creamy bacon pasta recipe. But that was a bit too healthy for lobster, ya know? Enter mascarpone.
In fact, enter the only 5 ingredients you need to make this recipe:
I used to live in a place without a Trader Joe's. I refer to that period of my life as the dark days. It took a shockingly long time for Trader Joe's to infiltrate Northern California. Anyway, I now live near tons of Trader Joe's, and I buy an 8-ounce tub of mascarpone weekly. It's $3. Isn't that crazy? The regular grocery stores have it for $6-8 in the fancy Italian section. If the fancy Italian section is your only bet, go ahead and splurge because you only need half the tub for this recipe. Then, you can make my Tiramisu for Two with the rest.
Be sure to do your part in keeping 2015 the summer of lobster. Deal?
This lobster pasta makes for a great date night meal for two.Dinner for Two: Creamy Lobster and Shells
Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 675Total Fat: 37gSaturated Fat: 17gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 16gCholesterol: 154mgSodium: 1231mgCarbohydrates: 54gFiber: 5gSugar: 7gProtein: 35g
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
One. GOOD LUCK TONIGHT! You will ROCK IT!
Two. Lobsters are definitely having a moment. And these shells and lobster combo needs to have a MAJOR moment with my FACE. Like, this looks amazing lady! Pinned!
Angie | Big Bear's Wife says
You have no idea how much I love lobster! I'm about to be all over that mascarpone cream sauce too!
Jolene (www.everydayfoodie.ca) says
What a pasta dish!!!
Nicole ~ Cookng for Keeps says
Wahoo!!! Good luck tonight! I honestly don't think there's anything I love more in this world than pasta and lobster. I mean, the two together -- some serious heaven.
Andrea @ Cooking with a Wallflower says
Oh my god! This dish looks soo good! I can't wait to give it a try. Especially since there's lobster in it! I totally missed you on QVC since I was at work. But I just wanted to let you know I preordered from Amazon a few weeks back, and I received my copy today just as I got home from work. It does say that the book comes out on Sept 10th though. I just thought you should know. I can't wait to look through it tonight! =)
Melissa Belanger says
We are totally living without lobster and Trader Joe's. It must be the Dark Ages up here! Lobster mac and cheese is on my cooking bucket list - I have a mental list of everything ever mentioned on Gilmore Girls, I'm such a dork - and this recipe would be perfect. Cooking it for just the two of us would be a perfect date night in AND wouldn't break the bank!
Shawnna says
Oh girl this sounds really yummy!
Kit says
See you tonight!
As for the dish lobster, I wish I could jump right in! At my age, I'd break something...
Ashley@blondegirlcravings says
Really, you are killing me here. Small town Idaho with no lobster or mascarpone or Trader Joes in sight?? Poor me :( Looks delicious!!
Nancy says
Oh. My. Gosh!!!! I want this right now!