"ntantiques" > wrote:

>Bored with the ususal variations on Thursday night dinner, DH & I
>expanded our food horizions today - bought a couple of pounds of fresh,
>very lively, NW crawfish for dinner. Since we'd never eaten them
>before, decided to take a conservative approach and boiled 'em up with
>just some Old Bay, cayenne, salt, & black peppercorns.

You're very fortunate to have live ones available. We can only get
bags of frozen tailmeat here, and they're very difficult to find now
since the only real fish market within driving range closed a while
back. At one time I got desperate enough that I was almost talked
into going to the bait shop - yeccch! (Since I'm not a fisherman, I
have no idea what you would use them as bait for - unless it's some of
those legendary monster catfish that hang out by the dam over on the
Mississippi). Back during the flood of 93 (92?) I remember seeing on
the news video of millions of crawfish streaming across roads and
people were actually eating them - since they came out of the
Mississippi, I assume most of those people are dead or blind by now
<G>


--
The Doc says my brain waves closely match those of a crazed ferret.
At least now I have an excuse.