Wednesday, March 21, 2007

You get a line and I'll get a pole, We'll go fishin in the crawdad hole, Honey, Baby mine*


Gracie....this is a crawdad! They eat them in cajun country around Louisiana and Mississippi.



*From "Crawdad Song" by who knows...

5 comment(s):

eww!!
Actually there's a few similar things here in Australia, not sure if they're that bright red, but people eat them. I'm not exactly a seafood eater!
thanks for the visual :)

By Blogger gracie, at 4:21 AM  

...and southeast Texas. I was a freshman from Beaumont who was quite saddened to learn there was no crawfish etouffee to be found anywhere near Abilene.

By Blogger Deana Nall, at 8:13 PM  

"Now here's what we're gonna did..."

Favorite line of Justin Wilson, famous cajun chef. He was doing a cooking show decades before there was such a thing as the Food Network, and he was a CLASSIC!

Almost everything he cooked had crawfish in it. Of course, he called them by the New Orleans name, crawdad. (I think it's the same thing...)

The other thing he was famous for was his ability to measure a perfect teaspoon or tablespoon of salt or whatever right into his palm. Every so often he'd pour out a teaspoon of salt into his hand and then carefully empty his palm into a measuring spoon just to show that he was always dead on.

But he was even more famous for his total inability to accurately measure wine.

"We're gonna did add about a cup a wine in there...", he'd say. Of course, the whole time he's saying that he's pouring wine into the measuring cup and it's overflowing into the pot below. Then he'd empty the measuring cup of wine into the pot. Then he'd all a little more on the basis that the measuring cup might be a little bit off.

He was a riot, thank's for bringing back a great memory.

By Blogger Jim V, at 11:09 AM  

what does a crawMOM look like??!!!

By Blogger Dina, at 12:01 PM  

they are excellent boiled, fried, or any Cajun dish!

By Blogger Frustrated Writer, at 10:00 AM  

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