Cray Fish boil

I love a good mud-bug boil. Can’t count the numbers of times we did them in Mobile. Are you using Old Bay to season your water or something else?
 
We are using some called Louisiana Crawfish, Crab and Shrimp boil. They threw in a enough to do a 100 lbs which is what we actually purchased between us and my grand daughter. I'll let you know how it works but I've seen it before on the grocery shelves in Louisiana during crawfish season and seems pretty popular down there. I will be putting in some old bay also but just a touch of it as it would cost a fortune to do this amount right with old bay. I'm also throwing in a whole jar of cayenne pepper and Crystal hot sauce in to the boil. Other than the boil spice blend I done it this way before with great results.

These babies came out of the water at 3 PM yesterday after noon, made the trip to my house by 9 AM and will be in the pot some where close to noon tomorrow. Oh and they are still pretty aggressive if you are curious, it seems they like cold weather I have the cuts to prove it too. :tongue:
 
I’ve seen that mix many times as well. Haven’t tried it yet, but know others that say it’s really good. With that and the rest of the yummies you’re throwing in, it sounds mighty fine!!! True head sucking material right there!!! :thumb:
 
Keltin said:
I’ve seen that mix many times as well. Haven’t tried it yet, but know others that say it’s really good. With that and the rest of the yummies you’re throwing in, it sounds mighty fine!!! True head sucking material right there!!! :thumb:
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It has been about 9 years since the last time I ate some and perhaps 12 since the last time I made some. I'm really looking forward to it tomorrow, wanted to do them tonight but grand daughter grabbed my pot when she dropped them off this morning. She brought my grand son (her brother back with her) and they did their tonight. I've got a bunch of kids and grand kids here tomorrow to help us eat them so I don't see much in the way of left overs other than cleaning everything. :wink:
 
Well PieSusan sent me a chocolate cake that is supposed to arrive tomorrow too but if not I even have the desert covered with a lemon meringue I got from a local baker today. I hope the cake shows though I am a chocoholic for sure. Now I simply hope the kids show up on time or we will have a lot of left overs and I hate left overs. :ohmy:
 
Oh wow! I haven’t had Lemon Meringue pie in years! My grandmother used to make it all the time, and it was one of my favorites……but banana pudding was always #1! Wow, thanks for the memories, I can almost smell that lemon custard now!!!

If you end up with left overs, just make some Crawfish Etouffee or gumbo! But I imagine the kids won't miss this, so I doubt you need to worry! :lol:
 
Keltin said:
Oh wow! I haven’t had Lemon Meringue pie in years! My grandmother used to make it all the time, and it was one of my favorites……but banana pudding was always #1! Wow, thanks for the memories, I can almost smell that lemon custard now!!!

If you end up with left overs, just make some Crawfish Etouffee or gumbo! But I imagine the kids won't miss this, so I doubt you need to worry! :lol:
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I can sure relate as banana pudding followed by a blackberry cobbler and lemon meringue pie are my favorites too. My grandmother also made this as well as a rice pudding to die for. If there are any left over probably will wind up in gumbo as my wife love the stuff ( I personally could go a life time with out it). At any rate my grandmother would make a meringue that was every bit of 3" high on top of the pie and I to this day haven't been able to get it like her even with the recipe for her pie. But then I hate to bake, too much for my following instructions I guess.
 
AllenOK said:
LOL, that's why I mentioned that stuff!

Nothing like pinching tail and sucking head!
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I remember the first time my daughter saw a crawfish, she said they looked like big cockroaches and she wouldn't eat then (she was about 10 years old). Well after about an 30 minutes of watching the other kids gobble them done she was right in the middle of them sucking the head and munching out.
 
joec said:
I can sure relate as banana pudding followed by a blackberry cobbler and lemon meringue pie are my favorites too. My grandmother also made this as well as a rice pudding to die for. If there are any left over probably will wind up in gumbo as my wife love the stuff ( I personally could go a life time with out it). At any rate my grandmother would make a meringue that was every bit of 3" high on top of the pie and I to this day haven't been able to get it like her even with the recipe for her pie. But then I hate to bake, too much for my following instructions I guess.
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Oh why did you have to do that!!! Rice Pudding! :thumb:

My grandmother made one that was also to die for. She put raisins in it......is that how you take it?
 
Oh yes white raisins and meringue folded into it. She actually had Kraft food offer to buy her recipe for it and refused to sell it to them. She said they would screw it up cutting corners. The woman was tough and had her principles which were none negotiable regardless of money.
 
joec said:
Oh yes white raisins and meringue folded into it. She actually had Kraft food offer to buy her recipe for it and refused to sell it to them. She said they would screw it up cutting corners. The woman was tough and had her principles which were none negotiable regardless of money.
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That's it! It did have meringue! Sadly, I never got her recipe before she passed. Did you manage to get one????
 
My wife did and I'm sure I can get it from her, if not I will mug her for it. I will post it for you as soon as she writes it down for me as deserts aren't my thing at all but she loves them.
 
They, along with lobsters, are related to cockroaches in the great family tree.




joec said:
I remember the first time my daughter saw a crawfish, she said they looked like big cockroaches and she wouldn't eat then (she was about 10 years old). Well after about an 30 minutes of watching the other kids gobble them done she was right in the middle of them sucking the head and munching out.
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I know and often wonder if the first person to eat one was starving. The same with shrimp and crabs since shrimp resemble lice and crabs spiders. But then I've eaten insects in my life some of which are pretty good too. :mrgreen:
 
joec said:
My wife did and I'm sure I can get it from her, if not I will mug her for it. I will post it for you as soon as she writes it down for me as deserts aren't my thing at all but she loves them.
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Thanks! And if you have to mug DW.....tell her I'm sorry, but I do want that recipe!!! :yum:
 
I will probably just shovel them in and it will be hit and miss as to what part of their body hits the water first. :dizzy:
 
Oh I didn't mention this but here is the mustard sauce I make to go with it.

1/2 cup mayonnaise (I use Miracle Whip)
1/2 cup Creole mustard (I sometimes substitute Chinese Hot mustard)
1/2 teaspoon prepared horseradish (I double this as I like horseradish)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Juice of 1 lemon
 
Wow those look great! Love chomping on these... even tried sucking on the head per the recommendations I got here.. LOL!
 
Yes well my batch will be ready to turn off in a minute more then 15 minutes letting the pot cool down. Once there they are ready to eat with the potatoes, sausage and corn on the cob.
 
Hey, where are the pictures, joe? I was looking forward to drooling all over my puter screen! Just the thought made my mouth water.

Hope you had a lovely party!
 
Darn I though I posted them, her you go. Wife is on the deck, the girl is my grand daughter, guy is her boy friend and the red headed woman is his mother. There were others here but would sit still long enough to take a picture. The whole menu was some pasta salad, and the boil which had red bliss potatoes, corn on the cob, sausage, crawfish and for seasoning a lot of cayenne pepper, crawfish boil (season bag) as well as some liquid crab boil, 2 lbs of garlic cut in half and 3 lbs of whole onions. There was some other stuff but don't remember off the top of my head. I have about 2 lbs left that we cleaned up after dinner and put in the fridge to make some gumbo with tomorrow.
 

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Yum! That looks too good to believe!!! I knew it would. Sigh.
Now, I am really going to have to go to Fat Fish Blue!!!!!
 
Oh that was half of it on the table, we did it in two batches in an 80 qt pot. We had one dead crawfish out of the whole bunch with the average being 4" from head to tail with many pushing 5".
 
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