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food The Drunken Chef

Lets see if i can do this right/.… 
 
first of all.. urrybuddy should be doin' tbe dlow shuffle, Chi town represeeeennnttt! (i'm super drunk right now)
Now after you get that down get back in the kitchen and keep an eye on yo' crawfish etouffee!
 
make yo' self some stock with the shells of the crawdads
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Make sure you gots some Taki's n' beerz while yous waitin'
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Touch some bewbs
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Make sure Yuki is content
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then after you've mastered the Dlow shuffle, eat yo' crawfish etouffee, n' stomp like you mad.
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Rawk that looks awesome!
 
texas blues said:
Me no likey crawfish.
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WHAT?!?!?!???????  :shocked:  Ok, "The TB" is no more. He just got demoted to tb. In fact, he just got stripped of his 't' even, so now he's just b.  :crazy: 
A guy from Tejas who digs on shrimps but doesn't like crawfish..... MIND BLOWN.
 
geeme said:
Rawk that looks awesome!
 
WHAT?!?!?!???????  :shocked:  Ok, "The TB" is no more. He just got demoted to tb. In fact, he just got stripped of his 't' even, so now he's just b.  :crazy:
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First off, I'm hungarian.
 
The spices used in crawfish boils taste awful to me. Zatarain's. Old Bay. Tony C's.
 
I fear and loathe it all.
 
Secondly, crawfish taste muddy to me. Always have. Which is just another reason to call them mud bugs.
 
Rawk made that etouffee look goodern' hell but it ain't my 'thang.
 
LOL - I knew that would get a response almost as fast as rabbits have sex.
 
And yeah, I'm not a fan of packaged seasonings at all, mostly because (of course) they have the dreaded BP in them. (And let's be honest, BP isn't Cajun/Creole, anyway - they know how to use the good red stuff.)
 
Muddy - huh. They certainly do have a flavor different from other crustaceans, but I wouldn't call it "muddy." Maybe you got some that weren't cleaned too well. Dunno.
 
geeme said:
LOL - I knew that would get a response almost as fast as rabbits have sex.
 
And yeah, I'm not a fan of packaged seasonings at all, mostly because (of course) they have the dreaded BP in them. (And let's be honest, BP isn't Cajun/Creole, anyway - they know how to use the good red stuff.)
 
Muddy - huh. They certainly do have a flavor different from other crustaceans, but I wouldn't call it "muddy." Maybe you got some that weren't cleaned too well. Dunno.
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Last year when I was working at the restaurant the owner was doing between 60 & 80 pounds a day during the mardi gras weeks. He'd use differnt' crab boils + old bay + other junk he wouldn't say. It smelled awful. The bugs came from a big ole' cajun guy from NOLA that sets up shop around Big D for the occasion. Tasting them was an unpleasant experience. Made me want to gag and the texture was all over the place as the dude waaaay overcooked em. All you could taste were the spices and the mud hint was in the back ground. That was it. I spit mine out. Tasted just the same to me as they did 40 years ago when I first had'em. 
Then again that guy, the owner, knew very little about actual cooking. Tried to help the guy out but it was a wasted effort.
 
I'll stick to mah' shrimps.
 
It took me an hour to shell and clean those suckers, maybe there's a trick that this northerner isn't privy to…. thats when it went from just cooking dinner to I should probably be drinking while I shell these bastidz.  Well the "a little crazy" ale is 6.8%, I weigh 115lbs and hadn't eaten… It was all downhill, from there.  I needed to go on a beer run by 7, which is only 2 blocks away, but managed to take me 40 min, when my dogs and I stumbled into a hand drum shop that according to the owner has been at the end of my street for 4 years (dude needs a better sign).
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flash forward to this morning, 
My neighbors are using power tools outside. 
 
Etouffe sounds good right about now but there ain't enough leftovers to bother with it!
nice looking yorky. looks like my little sweet dookie. thats what mine does also stares at the door.
 
 
 
go yuki :dance:

That's Chewie one of my old mans yorkies. He's abnormally big for a dorkie but him, his mother and father are certified purebreds he's cool as hell tho.
 
I like to catch and eat crawfish (we call em crayfish here up nort). They don't taste muddy at all, but the lakes I get them from are crystal clear and cold. They are also a different species (I think). They taste like lobster. It's no wonder why the ones down south taste like mud. The water there is downright nasty for the most part. I would like to try a Cajun style boil though. I usually just boil em and dip the tails in melted butter. They're also great chilled for a lobster roll type sammie.
 
The Hot Pepper said:
TB is right they taste of mud.

geeme is right in that means they were not cleaned properly. It's called purging. It flushes the mud out.

http://www.wikihow.com/Purge-Crawfish

Nice plate Rawk!
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Not once ever have I seen anyone do either a salt purge or a water purge on the mudbugs.
 
The owner of the restaurant surely never did. 
 
And sometimes the bags came in already stinkin'!
 
In Alaska come spring time we'd go down to Deep Creek or Clam Gulch and dig up buckets of big razor clams.
 
They'd be full of sand so you'd bringem' back in either a bucket full of salt water or a cooler with the same.
 
Throw in a handful or 2 of corn meal and leave 'em alone for a day or two and they'd siphon out all the sand with the cornmeal as the medium.
 
Messy as hell and a lot of work but so dang worth it. 
 
Needed only a couple of trips and you could fill your freezer and mao on clam strips and chowder all year long.
 
Alaska is awesome.
 
I learned the hard way to purge them. The first time I did crawfish it was absolutely terrible. If you purge and wash the crap out of em they are damn good!
 
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