Church Crawfish Boil Today

[BlueOvalFitter]

My church had a crawfish boil today. All proceeds go to the church and its Catholic school. I find this is a great donation every year ($15). 4 lbs. of boiled crawfish, 2 potatoes, an ear of corn, and a link of sausage. I ate the sausage before I got home.
In the 1st pic about 75% were this size or just shy of this size. There were a few medium sized ones.
They were cest bon, mon sha'.

 

[FADEC]

You get all that for $15?

 

[nomas]

That's a good deal .

 

[Passport1]

That looks very tasty.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

You get all that for $15?

Yep.
My church is about 2 football fields away from my condo. They stop serving crawfish at 7 PM. Any leftovers they bring them to my complex and pass them out to the tenants. I live in a complex for the elderly and disabled.

 

[danez_yoda]

Lawd have mercy! We are paying $8-9/lb for crawfish in east Houston. that's a killer deal.

 

[Eddie]

I used crawdads for fishing bait and never was at a crawfish boil. What do they taste like? Ed

 

[WeyounDS9]

They are basically just little lobsters right?

 

[Jdeere562]

I would do that in a heartbeat for $15 and leave a generous tip!

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

I used crawdads for fishing bait and never was at a crawfish boil. What do they taste like? Ed

They're kind of like the dark meat of the crustacean world.
I have only eaten them once plain, without any seasoning. They just don't taste right that way. Some people are either lazy or cheap, or both, and don't boil them in seasoned water. They boil them, put them in a container, sprinkle seasoning on them, shake them up, and then serve them. You're eating seasoning from your fingers giving you the idea that you just ate crawfish from a pot of seasoned water. SMH!

 

[Kira]

Bon Appetit'
Is there much meat on one of those things?

 

[RhondaHonda]

Looks delicious! What a deal.

 

[y_p_w]

Lawd have mercy! We are paying $8-9/lb for crawfish in east Houston. that's a killer deal.

Depends on where one is located I guess. I understand that the red swamp crayfish grows like weeds in Louisiana. They're still farmed for the most part, but it's supposed to be really easy where the just eat everything.



I haven't seen them in a while in my area, but I remember seeing them in San Francisco Chinatown for about $2.50/lb. They've apparently been transplanted to China years ago and many consider them a delicacy where they grow really fast compared to native crayfish.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

Bon Appetit'
Is there much meat on one of those things?

The bigger ones, yeah.

 

[Kira]

I sent this thread to my BIL (Houston, TX). He was told that rice farmers raise crawfish in the patties and harvest the crawfish after the rice.
Are your church's crawfish from rice patties? I think that'd be so cool.

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

I sent this thread to my BIL (Houston, TX). He was told that rice farmers raise crawfish in the patties and harvest the crawfish after the rice.
Are your church's crawfish from rice patties? I think that'd be so cool.

These were river crawfish from the Atchafalaya Basin (about 10 miles from me).
In Krotz Springs, La. they grow rice and crawfish in the same field (about 25 miles from me).

The Atchafalaya Basin | Atchafalaya National Heritage Area

The Atchafalaya Basin is the nation's largest river swamp, containing almost a million acres of our most significant bottomland hardwoods, swamps, bayous, and backwater lakes.

www.atchafalaya.org

 

[nomas]

These were river crawfish from the Atchafalaya Basin (about 10 miles from me).
In Krotz Springs, La. they grow rice and crawfish in the same field (about 25 miles from me).

The Atchafalaya Basin | Atchafalaya National Heritage Area

The Atchafalaya Basin is the nation's largest river swamp, containing almost a million acres of our most significant bottomland hardwoods, swamps, bayous, and backwater lakes.

www.atchafalaya.org

If you take I-10 from Lafayette to Lake Charles you'll see plenty of rice fields that are doing double duty .

 

[Kira]

So when the crawfish...poo, that's where dirty rice comes from?

 

[BlueOvalFitter]

A Cajun/Coonass is the only one that can look at a rice field and tell how much gravy is needed to cover it.

 

[y_p_w]

Wife ordered some frozen through a grocery delivery service. They were processed by an ethnic Chinese company based in Egypt called Jiang's Fish Processor Co., Ltd. Go fig. But they're otherwise fine. They look similar to red swamp crayfish, but I can't be 100% sure if they are or just a native species.