More Crawfish

[Magicman]

 

 
And these were huge.    

[DPatton]

Mmmm, mud bugs with taters, sausage and corn!

[tule peak timber]

Looks delicious !

[Magicman]

That first box full was only an appetizer.     I hurt myself before I finished.  :

[tule peak timber]

Shell slice ?

[Magicman]

Is that a question Rob?  Do you mean down the back like a lobster or what?  If so, no.  There is no wrong way for eating crawfish but some are better:
How To Eat a Crawfish - YouTube

[tule peak timber]

MM, when you mentioned that you hurt yourself, I thought you sliced your finger on a shell piece cleaning the crawfish.Rob

[Magicman]

I was trying to get too technical and missed the humor    although it did cause me to do the searching about how to eat crawfish.  There was one person's method that I would like to try....heck I want to try them all.  :D

[BradMarks]

Magic:  That is downright mean, posting pics like that >:( ;D.  Been awhile for me since a crawfish boil!  And some fried oysters on the side.  Raw oysters - a whole different meal. Now I'm hungry....

[Jeff]

He's done done it to me too. Made me love and now crave something I'd never thought I would ever try for lack of desire.

He's  a bad man.

[Al_Smith]

There's likely a zillion ways to cook them too .It's been decades since but my favorite is just like Chesapeake bay crabs .Big pot with a rack ,1 inch or so of water with a little lemon juice ,throw them in and drown  with "old bay " .Crank up the heat ,it only takes a few minutes .Goes good with beer and hush puppies .

[Magicman]

 

 
Ok I am a bad man......again because we had 10# if these to eat. 

[Tacotodd]

The only bad part about mudbugs, 10# don't go ver far, but I sure do love em! They are some of the best eats that I can get, but a delicacy for sure. People that don't like them I'm cool with, more for me 🤪

[Magicman]

only bad part about mudbugs, 10# don't go ver far

But for two of us it was plenty with some left over for...


 
a nice Crawfish Salad for my lunch today. 

[kantuckid]

I've had the Cajun crawfish in a restaurant down there but wondering if the other crawfish, yankee crawfish, are edible? Ones I've had were smaller. 

I like everything that's in a boil but prefer each item cooked separately, corn, taters, crawfish or seafood. 

[SwampDonkey]

We find them here in most any creek with a rocky bottom. They hide under them rocks. ;) We've never gone fishing for them though, since we have a vibrant lobster fishery. I actually don't think you'd find enough quantity of crayfish in a day up here to stay alive. ;D :D

Looks like you're enjoying then crawfish. ;D

[kantuckid]

I have found plenty back when we seined for limb line & trot line baits, just never ate them. The other variety that's bigger than creek version  is often found in ditches in fly over land. They are blue-green nasty looking critters.

[Tacotodd]

It's often been said "if not for the ditches, the Cajun's would starve".

Funny thing the first time I heard it, but they're SO good. People just don't understand unless they've tried them. A lot of work & a lot of waste.

And it's funny now, but I can make all kinds of cracks about my self (thick skin)! When you can make fun of yourself then nobody else knows what to say!

[SwampDonkey]

Of course they are good or no one would be eating them. That's always my fall back. ;D And another, I only make good stuff (to eat). :D

[kantuckid]

My "are they good comment" was about the big ugly ones seen up here that are blue green color and seem to be another species not the Cajun ones which I know are good.  

[Tacotodd]

You just have to remember that it's not in the same class of edible art that some food (sushi) is. Try it, it might be good 👍 but there is ultimately only 1 way to tell.

[metalspinner]

I miss eating crawfish every weekend.  Just can have them a couple times a year on visits. 

Once on a four day canoe trip with the scouts, rations were running low by day three. I put the scouts in charge of everything. Including the menu plan, shopping, camping sights, etc. 
Well, like I said, rations were running low by lunchtime on day 3. So as I was warming up my Ramen noodles for lunch🙄 on the riverside, I sent the scouts that were in charge of the menu plan to scrounge up some crawfish for me. Ended up boiling about 15 in my ramen water. 🤣

[Tacotodd]

Sounds like good eats to me! A little hot sauce and yagothermade! (you got her made, for the non southern language fluent)