If you haven’t yet experienced a traveling clambake, this Virtual Farmgirl highly recommends it.
My gracious hosts in Westport picked up a Capt’n John’s Travelin’ Clambake in downtown Newport, just off Wall Street. I think you would’ve had to live here forever or really listen carefully to directions to be able to find the place.
It’s a pretty nondescript inlet warehouse looking area. So I was a little wary when my host walked out with what looked like a giant popcorn tin.
I later learned it was filled to the brim with potatoes, corn on the cob (not shucked but de-silked), kielbasa, mussels, clams and four (live at the time) lobsters.
We brought it home and about 45 minutes before supper my hostess heated up an outdoor flame, added a bit of broth (apparently beer is acceptable too) and plopped the can down.
Besides a bit of work getting the (now dead and delicious) lobster out of their shells, it was an instant family meal. My host is a master with the chicken shears.
Even the kids got involved pulling the mussels out of the shells. I probably ate way too much. So I hope I can still fit in the dress I brought for tomorrow night.
I’m headed into Manhattan in the morning. Am looking forward to being in the big city.
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