Oysters on the Half Shell ~ Dining at Snug Harbor

Tonight when I got home from the hospital, I read the prompt in Friday's Writing Essential....food, my favorite topic...and thought it's almost midnight, I have to write this up for Jan!  It truly was "a palatal orgasm" kind of a meal.
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Yesterday when I got home from the hospital about four o'clock, Lena and Paul came over the house with Lena's brother Frank and the girls. 

"Hey, let's go over to Snug Harbor and eat at Diana's place.  Don't they have great fish, Bob?"

Diana and her husband Dan, whose a fisherman, own Snug Harbor Fish Company in Duxbury.  This past year I had their son Danny in my kindergarten class.  Snug Harbour sits on the Bay and the Marina is behind their building. It was a gorgeous late afternoon and Papa and I did not need to be persuaded.

Diana was extremely happy when we showed up and immediately showed Julia and Sage the lobsters in the tank.  We tried to have a lobster race but that proved futile...at first they just sat there and then Moe  started going backwards.






Being a warm evening, we decided to eat outside on the patio.

While we were looking at the menu, Diana brought out a plate with large shrimp.  They were scrumptious.
A few minutes later, she brought out a large salad of spinach, yellow squash, and zucchini with a mango salsa sauce.  What I find so strange is the fact that Julia and Sage will eat practically  anything...raw shrimp  and vegetables just go down the hatch.




"How about some oysters?  These come from Duxbury Bay", Diana said as she came out with a large platter.  Except for Papa and I, no one at the table had ever had raw oysters in the half shell.  I wondered how this would go over.








First Paul tried one......


"Come on Lena, they are really good."









"How about you Sage?" said Lena.



"Papa, do I have to eat one?" said Julia.  "I just want the shells."


After the appetizers, Paul and I had big plates of fried clams and Lena, Frank, and the girls had fish and chips.




And for dessert....did not Diana surprise us with a plate of eclairs.  What an orgasm of a meal we had!