Mudbugs and Cabbage Patch Kids

Few things are as deeply southern as a crawfish boil. Only the folks from Louisiana would be crazy enough to come up with an idea as awesome as boiling these dirty critters in really spicy water to make 'em taste good. And I guess with modern farming techniques and fast transportation, the availability and popularity of eating crawfish has spread to the neighboring states as crawfish boils are not uncommon up hear in north eastern Mississippi(aka God's Country).

A crawfish boil is an event as much as it is a method of preparing food. Its a gathering of friends, a time to relax and converse, but its also a time to chow down! Anyway, our good friends the Allens decided that they wanted to have a few friends over and cook up a few mudbugs. We were lucky enough to be invited. So last friday we showed up and got to work. Now the Allens are actually from Idaho so I gotta give them some serious credit for even attempting to hold such a southern event. But T. Allen had done his research and had a killer recipe ready to go. By the end of it, we had a really good system down and had a hot batch a crawfish coming out of the water every 10 minutes.

The basic idea is to take a whole mess of crawdads, rinse 'em a few times and then put 'em into a big pot of boiling water that has been seasoned with all sorts of cajun goodness. Throw a few ears of corn, some sausage, and a few potatoes into that same pot of water and you have some really good eats.


Gavin was quite intrigued with the live crawdads.
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You definitely have to rinse the crawdads several times. This is what the water looked like after the first rinse. They do not like being sprayed with a jet of water. Come to think of though, neither do I!
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The seasonings go in!
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A batch just being pulled out of the pot.
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The final product. Hot, spicy, tasty goodness. The potatoes and sausage turned out really good too! The corn was a little too spicy.
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And this is how ya eat 'em. Everybody stands around a table, the crawdads and fixin's are spread out and its time to get busy! The only thing really edible is the tail meat. Some folks suck the heads, but there's really just juices in there.
What's great is you can just stand around, chit-chat, joke, eat, repeat.
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This has nothing to do with a crawfish boil. I just wanted to see if Milla could fit into a Cabbage Patch Doll outfit. She does, sort of. Apparently, the torso of a CPK doll is about 1/2 as long as the torso of your average infant. Both the shirt and shorts belong to Izzy's CPK doll.
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Comments

The Reeds said…
Great Photos. I have heard much about these crawfish. My husband seems to love them. They kind of look a little gross to me, but might try one if I got the chance..

Also, I am not sure that Milla thinks wear cabbage patch clothes is cool! :)
Cynthia Allen said…
Those are some great pics. We were glad to have you. It was a fun evening.

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