My night with crawfish
To a great many people crawfish are a delicasy--or at least a treat. I must confess I've never considered them in that light before nor did I find out on Saturday night. I decided they were too spicy and chickened out. Sad but true. I regard it as a good decision since even the grilled potatoes were making my tongue bleed but nobody else over the age of 5 was bothered by the spices. And even the 5 year old took a swig of milk and soldiered on. LOL
These 9 pictures chronicle the crawfish party. First you start off with a crawdad (or mom, I guess) ably held up by Chris' son. Then we move on to Jed packing them into a temporary holding cell--there was one escapee who Jed is monitoring closely. The next stop is the cooker--and then the crawdads in the cooker. Ouch!! Don't let PETA know about THIS step!
After that we dumped out the cooked crustacians into a ice chest, Chris added some spices he blended together, and then the mixture was shook around a bit and allowed to flavor a while before eating. Next Jed and Rusty did some quality control taste testing to see when they were ready for the table. Add some veggies and it's a feast. Yum? As the last two pictures show, the Crawfest started before sundown and lasted well after dark.








These 9 pictures chronicle the crawfish party. First you start off with a crawdad (or mom, I guess) ably held up by Chris' son. Then we move on to Jed packing them into a temporary holding cell--there was one escapee who Jed is monitoring closely. The next stop is the cooker--and then the crawdads in the cooker. Ouch!! Don't let PETA know about THIS step!
After that we dumped out the cooked crustacians into a ice chest, Chris added some spices he blended together, and then the mixture was shook around a bit and allowed to flavor a while before eating. Next Jed and Rusty did some quality control taste testing to see when they were ready for the table. Add some veggies and it's a feast. Yum? As the last two pictures show, the Crawfest started before sundown and lasted well after dark.









Comments
so you are in RTP? i spent a large chunk of my childhood in NC: charlotte/salisbury, and my BA is from WCU.
I thought crawdads were bait...At least I think we used them as bait when I was a kid! Maybe not so big. That is a lot of crawdads and moms.
We did steam a lovely nine pound lobster a couple of weeks ago. I have photos of the monster. Served six and breakfast for those who could stomach lobster omlettes, ick. LOL
I clicked your link from Heidi....Didn't want you to lose sleep figuring out where the hell I came from...Although, you really can't figure out where I came from by a simple long winded comment, can you??? LMAO I do that a lot.
Lois Lane
Hey Nancy. I like Heidi's blog mostly due to her personality since her posts are fairly quiet. Where did you get such a big lobster??
Hi Lois! Nice to see you (and your socks)! :-)
then eat them.