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Crawdads aka Crawfish, Crayfish

I've got family that live in on the Gulf coast in Mobile, Alabama. On every visit, I always get treated with "crawdads." The locals there have their favorite spots and most I've tried are amazing. I don't think that the food has a long history there, but something that crept across from the bayous of Louisiana. Regardless, they are cooked with various recipes of spicy "crab boil." Certainly not a staple food here in my Palmetto state. Had lunch today with some buds at a better local Chinese buffet. They had crawdads and I indulged on a gluttonous three plates full. They were very good to my surprise but not "great" like the ones I had in Alabama. The spice was heavy Jalapeno as you can see in the pics. I have been told that there is a place locally that has bags of frozen crawdads. All of that to ask this simple question...
 
Does anyone here have a good recipe they will share? My palette has been activated. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.. - Reggie
 

 
 
Recipe? A crawfish boil. Search for Phil's.
 
Also, good on pizza.
 
To me they are definitely a mix of shrimp and lobster. I do like them. But I prefer crab.
 
you're in CT and u know this :P
 
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Haha.  Guess I got caught up... Had a brief respite the last few days from a freak snowstorm. But, today we've thawed and the knuckleheads emerged to make up for the lost time. I'm wound tighter than Dick's hatband after this shift.. The best point was my brief lunch and now a cold brew with a little solace at my computer...
 
Holy crap I was tipsy!
 
I got you guys mixed up last night. LOLZZZZ!
 
WM, I thought that bum above me was posting, from CT.
 
Police, military, I got confused :rofl:
 
I LOVE crawdads
 
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when I was a kid my dad and I would drive up to flagstaff AZ and catch them out the mountain streams. The ice cold snowmelt was crystal clear. We would sit in his pickup with the bucket of crawdads and break teh tails off and scoop the meat out and eat it raw. Was so tasty. Ice cold and sweet. Reminds me of those little cocktail salad shrimp you get at redlobster but fresher and more tender. 
 
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