Seafood Boil Political Party | My Favorite (And The Easiest) Summertime Party

Can it last possible that Memorial Day Weekend is adjacent weekend?  Hosting a Seafood Boil is ane of my favorite ways to entertain.   It is tardily (so easy!), non truly that expensive, in addition to it makes a fun in addition to festive night.


For me, a seafood boil is the essence of casual (but special) summertime entertaining.  As you lot know, I dearest truly casual entertaining, thus a seafood boil is the perfect matrimony of luxury (I mean, nosotros are talking lobster here...) in addition to a roll-up-your-sleeves in addition to dig-in form of party.  

 

Almost every summertime nosotros host around form of Seafood Boil for our friends.  This year, nosotros threw ane for my Mom's surprise birthday party.  If you've never hosted ane earlier - permit me nation you, it is the easiest political party you lot volition e'er throw.  The fresh seafood is such a fun summertime process for everyone, that at that spot is really picayune to practise too laid a pretty table.

Shop my Summer Products including this Robin's Egg Blue Enamelware, here.



Seafood Boil
serves 6

1 lemon, cutting inwards wedges
1 tablespoon of quondam bay seasoning
1 tablespoon of whole peppercorns
ii pounds of pocket-size potatoes
vi ears of corn
vi pocket-size lobster tails (optional)
ii pounds of shrimp
french bread
melted butter

In a large pot of boiling water, add together lemon, quondam bay, peppercorns in addition to potatoes.  Boil for 8 minutes.  Add corn in addition to lobsters in addition to ready for iii to a greater extent than minutes.  Add shrimp in addition to ready for ii minutes.  Drain from H2O in addition to pile on platter.  Serve alongside crusty staff of life in addition to melted butter.

 
When I commencement saw this Robin's Egg Blue Enamelware Collection, I couldn't human face to piece of employment it for our annual seafood boil.  Here, I'm using the Large Round Platter ($16) to serve the seafood.  The tall sides become far really tardily to pile everything in.

In the summer, I'm a beer girl.  I love, love, dearest Summer Shandy.  It is similar beer in addition to lemonade mixed together.  I position it inwards the Enamelware Deep Basin ($16)  (Now restocked!!) with H2O ice in addition to wedges of lemon.  I also offering white vino to transcend on everyone happy.

I made really casual candle hurricanes out of quondam extra large bricklayer jars.  I filled the bottoms alongside large body of body of water tabular array salt in addition to and thus used my Tapers.

And of course... Lobster Sugar Cookies are such a fun parting gift... or dessert.  They are truly really tardily to decorate.  If you lot tin dismiss describe the exterior in addition to coloring inwards the lines, you're set.

These are dorsum to the store this flavor - along alongside around other fun nautical shapes.

Gosh, these cookies brand me experience similar I'm sitting inwards Martha's Vineyard correct now.

Shop the Nautical Cookie Cutters, hither > 

Have I convinced you lot to throw a Seafood Boil yet?  You won't last sorry!

Another favorite version of this is a Shrimp Boil.  My brother-in-law hosted us at a boil a twain of years agone - quondam bay spiced H2O alongside sausages, onions, shrimp, corn in addition to potatoes.  You tin dismiss come across that recipe, hither >

What are your favorite Summer political party traditions? 


Shop :

Robin's Egg Blue Enamelware ($16-24)

Nautial Cookie Cutters >

Share this post