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one of the cold beers. Acadia beer is recommended.
Do this outside. For best results, do it on a night before the garbage
man comes.
Get a big pot. Fill it a little more than half way with tap water (unless
you live along the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge - in which
case you should fry some shrimp, redfish or trout instead). Bring the
water to a rolling boil and add a box of salt. Add another half of a
box if you like salt. Add a jar of red pepper and a bottle of hot sauce.
Add a few squeezed lemons, a few fists of garlic, a bunch of onions,
and red potatoes. Add smoked or hot sausage if you like. Yell at the
kids to stay away from the pot. Let it boil for a little while. Throw
in a few ears of corn broken in half.
Use the kids wading pool to "purge" the crawfish. Fill the
wading pool halfway with water and throw in the crawfish. Immediately
fish them out with a net or what-have-you and toss them into your boiling
water.
Bring the crawfish and other stuff to a boil again. Boil for about 5
minutes or until they float and then turn them off. Open another beer.
Let them sit until they sink. Yell at the kids to stay away from the
damned pot! Strain everything.
Spread a couple of Times Picayunes out over a big table and dump all
the crawfish and potatoes and stuff out. Open an ice cold beer and sit
down with 3 to 5 other hungry Broussards. -Ray
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