Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 29, 2011 12:30:53 GMT 12.75
I got me a mess of crawfish traps rigged up and dad and I are going to set 'em out in the feeder creeks of the Withlacoochee River when we go out catfishing later on this week.
If I can catch enough of them, we're planning on having a boil. Gather all the family together and make a nice dinner outside.
We'll prolly buy about eight dozen blue crabs to go with the crawfish.
Koot, you asked before how it's done...tay appention!!!
We got a thirty gallon cast iron pot, Fill it three quarters of theway up with water, and set it on the fire pit and build the fire. Daddy likes orange wood cause it burns real hot!
Into that heating, put eight packages of Zatarans crab boil, eight lemons cut in half, six bottles of louisiana hot sauce, a dozen whole heads of garlic, and a pound of salt. Just before it gets to a rolling boil, add in five pounds of potatos (unpeeled) and a dozen ears of yeller corn cut in half (still in shucks). Let the water get good and rolling to a boil then add in your crawfish and crabs, as much as the pot will hold and boil the shlt out of it until the crabs and crawfish are a bright red color.
Rake the fire out of the pot and start pulling the corn, taters, crawfish, and crab out of the water with a skimmin basket. Once the food's out, dump it all on a plank of plywood covered in newspapers and everybody dig in.
Pull the fire back in under the pot and get your mix boiling again and then add in the rest of the crawfish and maybe another five pounds of taters and another dozen ears of corn, depending on how big your family is, lol.
Whatever crabs and crawfish don't get ate up, we pick the meat and freeze it in ziploc bags for etoufe, gumbo, suce picant, or whatever...
I promise you fellers, it sho am good!!!
If I can catch enough of them, we're planning on having a boil. Gather all the family together and make a nice dinner outside.
We'll prolly buy about eight dozen blue crabs to go with the crawfish.
Koot, you asked before how it's done...tay appention!!!
We got a thirty gallon cast iron pot, Fill it three quarters of theway up with water, and set it on the fire pit and build the fire. Daddy likes orange wood cause it burns real hot!
Into that heating, put eight packages of Zatarans crab boil, eight lemons cut in half, six bottles of louisiana hot sauce, a dozen whole heads of garlic, and a pound of salt. Just before it gets to a rolling boil, add in five pounds of potatos (unpeeled) and a dozen ears of yeller corn cut in half (still in shucks). Let the water get good and rolling to a boil then add in your crawfish and crabs, as much as the pot will hold and boil the shlt out of it until the crabs and crawfish are a bright red color.
Rake the fire out of the pot and start pulling the corn, taters, crawfish, and crab out of the water with a skimmin basket. Once the food's out, dump it all on a plank of plywood covered in newspapers and everybody dig in.
Pull the fire back in under the pot and get your mix boiling again and then add in the rest of the crawfish and maybe another five pounds of taters and another dozen ears of corn, depending on how big your family is, lol.
Whatever crabs and crawfish don't get ate up, we pick the meat and freeze it in ziploc bags for etoufe, gumbo, suce picant, or whatever...
I promise you fellers, it sho am good!!!