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. Messy as all
get out, but a major success. Very sweet and delicate flavor - glad I
didn't over-spice them. Was surprised at the amount of claw meat -
had always thought the tail was the only edible part, but the larger
critters had a tasty morsel in each claw. Can't wait until the local
sweet corn comes in...we're already dreaming about sitting under the
stars, washing down a big pile of crawfish & roasted corn with some
very cold Becks on our first hot summer night.

NT

On Thu 16 Jun 2005 10:31:19p, ntantiques wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> 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. Messy as all
> get out, but a major success. Very sweet and delicate flavor - glad I
> didn't over-spice them. Was surprised at the amount of claw meat -
> had always thought the tail was the only edible part, but the larger
> critters had a tasty morsel in each claw. Can't wait until the local
> sweet corn comes in...we're already dreaming about sitting under the
> stars, washing down a big pile of crawfish & roasted corn with some
> very cold Becks on our first hot summer night.
>
> NT

What a great taste! I've never actually cooked them, but enjoyed them many
times in little back road restaurants down in Cajun country.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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"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>


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