The Crazy Crawford Clan: Crawfish Boil

April 11, 2009---Rick had been in the moods for mudbugs earlier this week. Being a Louisiana boy, I know he misses the scrumptious Cajun cooking he was so used to growing up. To try to ease his cravings (and give me a night off in the kitchen) we went to a local restaurant on Thursday night for crawfish, shrimp, potatoes, and corn. It was divine!!! Their po-boy's looked fantastic too, so...guess where we'll be going the next time Mama boycotts the kitchen!! We had only been home less than an hour when we received a call inviting us to a neighbor's crawfish boil on Saturday. Are you kidding me?!?! A chance to have crawfish twice in three days!! You can imagine we jumped at the offer!!

Craig, a long-time friend and now neighbor, had been given 150 pounds of crawfish---you read that correctly---150 pounds. Five couples and their children met at the Tanner's home for a down-home crawfish boil---crawfish, onions, garlic, mushrooms, sausage, potatoes, and corn. There was also fried catfish and fries for any non-mudbug fans. I made Julie's yummy chocolate cake/heath bar/chocolate syrup/cool whip dessert. There was not a bite left! There were five couples plus their children in attendance. As you can imagine, there was a lot left over. Rick thinks he peeled 50 pounds himself. We brought home a 9x13 deep aluminum pan filled with tail meat. I can't wait to make some crawfish spaghetti or crawfish monica or gumbo or bisque...oooohhhh the possibilites are endless!!

My girls were the only girl's there for quite a while but there was an abundance of boys! We didn't allow Jackson to take any of his dinosaurs (a rare occurrence) in hopes that he would play with the other kids rather than sitting alone have dinosaur wars. He is such a loner and we want him to be more social. We were amazed that he jumped right in with the other kids and had a blast! He played with the live crawfish, played on the swing set/play fort, and played baseball. We were pleased that he was doing "boy stuff".