By the sea...

Home from a trip to the Carolina beach -- yes, just a mile or so from where two people got sharkbit a couple of weeks ago.  Not only did we avoid being sharkbit ourselves, we got to eat some great fresh local seafood.

Oysters

Shrimp

Grouper

but no shark

Food porn -- New Orleans

Just back from a fast visit to New Orleans, in which we ate our fill (and then some) of big, fat Gulf shrimp.

Plain fried.

Cold boiled, in a VERY spicy remoulade sauce.

Shrimp bisque.

Shrimp gumbo.

Jambalaya.

Of course we had to have oysters, too.

And the best seafood meal of the trip was crab cakes.

Beach food

We're on the Outer Banks this week, and our almost-going-away dinner featured local seafood.  I've never been one to require variety in my diet -- if something I love is in season, I'll eat it five meals in a row.  So confronted with fresh crabmeat, I doubled down, with crab bisque and a crab cake sandwich.

The others ate mahi-mahi, caught in the Gulf Stream, only 12 miles offshore.

And the five-year-old ate a hot dog -- or should I say a sea dog?