Friday, March 25, 2011

Crawdads

One of the things we deep southerners miss about living in Texas is all of the fresh seafood.  Believe it or not, we really miss these little creatures.  

These are crawfish.  Also known as: mudbugs, crawfish, and lobsters (according to Maddie).   


The Georgians and Arkansans introduced crawfish (crawdads) to the Texans.  Ashley's mom and sister came for a visit and were sweet enough to bring the Rhinestone Cowboy's favorite crustacean to Dalhart.  We had a crawfish boil and invited lots of our friends.  Needless to say, we had a great time.


Again, doing what we do best, we had lots and lots of food!  

For those that didn't eat crawfish we had shrimp too.  The shrimp came from Texas but was bought in Arkansas....ironic, huh?






Ashley, making cheese grits!  


The pot full of seasoning.  This is where the potatoes, mushrooms, sausage, crawfish, and shrimp are cooked.  They are boiled to perfection in cajun seasonings.  


There's no easy way to do this....you can't hide redneck.  Rhinestone Cowboy and Mr. Biggs made us a special crawfish eatin' table.  It was great.  Your trash goes in a hole in the middle and all of the crawfish are thrown on the table. It's a brilliant invention! 













Look at all those mudbugs!  



Oh how I LOVE crawfish season!!!!  



Ashley gave the Texans a lesson on eatin' crawfish.  












Great food, great friends, and great weather!  




The night always has to end with dessert.  Homemade chocolate chip cookies, monster cookies, no bake cookies, and AC's marbled chocolate chip cookies.   






1 comment:

  1. Wow....looks like ya'll had a great time!!! I have so enjoyed looking at your blog posts and pics. And look at your Daddy with that big ten gallon hat!!!! Awesome!!! Keep posting and I'll keep looking. All the food looks good...you and your Mama were always good cooks!!!
    Sarah Cohen

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