Leftover Boiled Crawfish

I've never done that. Thanks.

Peel them and freeze the tails.

I suggest making crawfish cakes or crawfish pie, my two favorite things to make with leftover crawfish.

You peel em and make the best étouffée you've ever had

You most certainly can frezze them. My mom told me when they were growing her up her dad and brothers would go crawfishing in the swamp. They would catch up to 10 scaks of crawfish, bring them home, scald them and her and here sisters would have to peel all of them. Once a year they would have a crawfish boil where they could actually sit down and eat boiled crawfish.

Now you have me banging my head over a dish made famous many years ago by Warren LeRuth.

I made an after the boil bisque the other day with a bunch of leftovers. It turned out awesome. Peel the bugs and scoop as much fat out as possible. De-cob the corn. Peel and chop up the taters. Sauté some trinity in a little blond butter roux. Add a pint heavy cream some chicken stock and some white wine. Let that kinda come into its own and then add the crawfish, corn, and taters. I even chopped up the carrots and shrooms that were left and put them in there. Also added 2 lbs of peeled shrimp we had. Cooked it on a pot belly stove at the deer camp in my great big arse black pot. The entire thing got destroyed and I was placed in the same breath as Besh, Paul P and the boys. Granted those that were singing my praises were sloshed on beer, bourbon whiskey and God knows what else. But still, it came out pretty good.

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Thanks Net. Good to be back

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My hands hurt just thinking about peeling 10 sacks. Once a year I'll boil a sack or two and peel for a bisque and my hands are generally raw as hell.

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Shes pretty tough for a woman. They would also clean rabbits and poul deaux. The only thing they didnt clean was deer. That was done by the men but packaged for the freezer by the ladies shucking oysters as well