5 red lobster soft shell Recipes

rockweed, whole 6-lb fish (striped bass, salmon, or bluefish, etc.), gutted and scaled, red bliss or medium maine potatoes, sweet potatoes, white boiling onions or small spanish onions, jumbo sea clams (optional; used for flavoring, not eating), soft-shell clams (steamers), mussels, periwinkles, linguica , chorizo or other sausage, live 1-lb chicken lobsters, ears sweet corn, extra-large eggs, unsalted butter

new potatoes, red or white, ears corn, husked, soft-shelled steamer clams , scrubbed, mussels , scrubbed and beards removed, spanish-style chorizo or linguica, cut crosswise into 4 pieces (andouille or smoked kielbasa sausage can be substituted), live lobsters, eggs, mesh bags (such as onions or citrus fruit come in) or 4 pouches made from several wide layers cheesecloth, rockweed (see chef s notes, below) or steamer rack, unsalted butter, melted, old bay seasoning, lemon wedges

red bliss potatoes, chicken thighs, ears corn, lobsters, linguica sausage or chorizo, soft shell clams or steamers

red new potatoes, chicken thighs, fresh seaweed or rockweed, ears of corn, left in the husk , silks removed, lobsters (2 lb each), linguica or chorizo sausage, steamers or other soft-shell clams, drawn butter (optional), for serving