crawfish

[51tele]

it's lent time down here in New Orleans and we love us some crawfish----------I don't know if any of ya'll have tried em but they are dynamite if they are cooked right. get a big ol pot that will hold about 40 lbs of them,fill it half way with water then add your seasoning. plenty salt,garlic and zatarains crab boil cook em up and serve them with plenty of ice cold beer------I was working in the carolinas a few years back and one of my co-workers brought some crawfish and shrimp to cook------they cooked them together with no seasoning and they thought thats how they are supposed to be----boy were they wrong--they tasted like you know what.

[Fendrcaster]

I tried them once but didn't care for them, maybe they weren't cooked right. If I'm going to eat crustaceans, give me Maryland blue crabs!

[Trimmed&Burnin]

They're a lot of fun on light gear!

[Fendrcaster]

They're a lot of fun on light gear!

Yeah, but they won't hit topwater will they?

[boris bubbanov]

Maybe they'll never know.

That's Ok, more for us who do know.

I personally love the whole garlic that has been in the boil pot the whole time, I could just keep eating dat.

And crawfish are the best excuse to drink more beer.

[Murphy Slaw]

I lived in Lake Charles from 1982 till' 1994 and ate a bunch of crawfish, me. I remember them live in the sack (big sack) for 55 cents a pound. We just boiled em' with corn and potatos and red pepper and salt.

We'd take a case of beer to the Sabine refuge and some chicken necks and dip nets and catch all the blue crabs we could, throw a few cast nets and get some shrimp, and then stop on they way home for more beer.

We're fixin' to eat now, yea!

I do miss Lake Charles. People up here have no idea of the concept of free food. You would just go get it. A feast was no big deal. It was a party to get it, and a party to eat it.

Thanks for the memories.

Murph.

[Tele295]

Mmmm, Zatarain's crab boil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stxrus]

loves me some mudpuppies. eat the tail and suck the head. add some boiled shrimp and some sliders and life can't get much better

steve

[CDKopf]

Mee too!! I could eat em till Im sick -- or I can't feel my face anymore from the spices!! Don't forget the corn & taters trown in too!

[camari]

Pats restaurant off I-10 at Henderson Swamp exit , west of Baton Rouge, made me a crawdad lover. They have the best crawdad gumbo I ever ate. I spent years trying to duplicate it. I never go thru that area without buying a gallon of gumbo to go from Pats. Geeze, yer making me hungry for crawdad gumbo. All these food posts lately aren't do me any good for my next Dr. visit weigh-in. Dr. told me to lose about 10 lbs.

Mmm, crawdads are diet food aren't they??

[geddins]

I'm close enough to Shreveport to drive over and get a sack from the Farmer's Market every great once in a while....crawfish, taters, corn.....oh yeah baby.....but I don't suck the head.....sorry my Cajun brothers!

[boris bubbanov]

Originally Posted by camari

Mmm, crawdads are diet food aren't they??

Not the way we boil them, there's so much salt in there.

And, I gotta tell ya, can not ever remember eating them when not drinking beer. Dixie or Jax beer was just right, the beer need not be expensive "in this case".

Whereas, with oysters on the half shell, I like Barq's in a glass bottle, with a glass of ice of course, and lemon, horseradish and bit of tomato sauce if the others need it. Crackers? Once the oysters are served, are you joking?

[J-man]

I've had them a few times, very tasty, similar to prawns (shrimp).

[J.Rodney]

my family and I ate crawfish Sat. nite and they were great,but I will have to admit that you need to know the right place where to go to eat them,some people even in La.just dont know how to season or boil them right,and that makes all the difference.The crawfish we had Sat. nite were big in size,for it to be so early in the crawfish season.Looks like a good crop this year.

[charlie chitlin]

Originally Posted by geddins

I'm close enough to Shreveport to drive over and get a sack from the Farmer's Market every great once in a while....crawfish, taters, corn.....oh yeah baby.....but I don't suck the head.....sorry my Cajun brothers!

I'm with ya.
I love 'em, but I can't suck the head.

[RickG501]

I likes me sum mudbugs too.

The only shell fish I don't care for is scallops...never cared much for dem.
I'm so hungry. Now.

[Unseen]

Crawfish (aka crayfish) aren't a totally Southeastern U.S. phenomenon. In fact, here in Portland, OR, one of our best seafood restaurants is Jake's Famous Crawfish (http://www.mccormickandschmicks.com/...ageid=96&id=1).

A nearby city, Tualatin, has an annual crawfish festival: http://www.tualatincrawfishfestival.com/

While we cook native crawfish, most of the crawfish lore comes from the Southeast.

[Nick JD]

I've had the rare pleasure (fear) of pulling one of these (New Zealand Packhorse Crayfish) out of a crevice with a pair of pigskin gardening gloves on. Still got the scars.

Damn tasty.



Largest lobster in the world. Record is 44 pounds. Take your fingers off.

[toadman]

shuck'em and suck'em baby! i LOVE those little guys! it's tough to find good ones up here in New England though. a lot of folks up here, while well intentioned, just don't know how to do it! i've had some good ones up here though, too. best i ever had was in nawlins, i forget the name of the place, not far from the french market.

[Bangbang]

I love seafood but I have never liked crawfish....I don't think they were cooked right because they were like eatin over cooked squid.