Our First Crawfish Boil

James I just hosted our first crawfish boil at our house this past Saturday. We bought a large 80 qt. crawfish boiler with our tax refund this year. The food was great and the weather cooperated with us. We had 8 guests and 60 lbs of crawfish and corn, pototoes, and sausage. James did the most of the work in preparing the food, so I'll let him tell you about it in his own post. The crawfish came (LIVE) in a mesh sack. We got them from a local seafood market. Our puppy didn't know what to think of them. A few of them tried to crawl away from us before they got dumped in the water. One of them bit James - that mudbug wasn't doing down without a fight! The seafood market (City Cafe) also tossed in some "extras". . .James found a small whole catfish in the sack with the crawfish. We threw that away. YUCK. Lily (the pup) had a feast of her own. She ate some corn right off the cob.

I finally feel like an official Louisiana resident now that I've learned a bit about how to cook crawfish! We've been here a year, and this kinda feels like home, but not really. I do miss Arkansas. I miss the weather! South Louisiana is the sauna of the contienent. I prefer snow and ice storms and the occasional tornado to hurricanes. It is so hot and sticky here. All you folks in Arkansas who say "It's not the heat, it's the humidity" when complaining about the summer weather don't know about humidity. Arkansas seems soooo arid to me now. It didn't get really cold during the "winter" last year at all. There was only one day when I got my coat out of the closet. It just didn't feel like Christmas. . .not that I love cold weather. . .I don't. I would love for it to be freezing for 3 weeks in December though, and then night after new years I'd love to have the spring flowers start blooming. . .which is what happened here minus the 3 weeks of cold weather in December. Another odd thing about the weather is that it rains almost every afternoon in the summer - which really stinks if your'e outside in the middle of mowing or some other kind of yard work and you just have to quit and abandon all your equipment because it has gone from being completely clear and sunny to a torrential rain in less than 2 1/2 minutes.