I’m taking the dive and gonna make a true old fashioned crawfish bisque

I made a thread on the process. For 50-60 heads you'll need about 3 or 4 pounds of tails. You can use meat from a boil. I typically buy them when they go on sail.

Here's the Thread, No Pics.

Here's a time saver an old Cajun lady told me about several years ago for stuffing the heads. Make your stuffing just a bit wetter than you normally would and put it in a "piping bag" like used for decorating cakes. You will probably have to cut the ends of one of the attachments to widen the opening, but it makes stuffing the heads very easy.

I can easily stuff a couple hundred heads in less than an hour that way. When done, I lightly roll them in flour and put them on a baking sheet and cook in the oven for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees to firm up the stuffing in the heads before putting them in my bisque.

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Can use a ziploc as a piping bag.

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Yeah, but they tear up pretty quick with the consistency needed to stuff the heads. The stuffing is a bit wet, but nowhere near "icing wet".

Emeril Recipe

I use this one as a guide. It calls for chopping the tails used in the stuffing prep. I run the tails and vegetables through my FP for a spin before mixing in the bread crumbs for the stuffing.

Doing the same thing. Figured now is a great time to revive an old family tradition. My great grandmother, god bless her soul, was a master of bisque making. She made it weekly and kept quarts in a chest freezer by her front door. I can remember people randomly stopping by to buy it when I was a kid. Let’s hope I can do it justice! The process starts in about 2 hours.

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A time intensive meal that is oh so good

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That dish looks great!!!

As a child I never remembered having crawfish boils, but we would go crawfishing all the time in the Bonne Carre spillway.

I asked my dad once about this and he said we didn't because of Maw Maw. I said "did she not like boiled crawfish?" .

He said, no because boiling them would be wasting them since her crawfish bisque was so good! It was, but sadly, she took her recipe with her when she passed.

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it's the best crawfish dish served.

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