This is what Polimom had for the Mother’s Day meal:
Dear Husband (DH) and Adorable Child (AC) discovered that this works really well for getting out of a doghouse. Perhaps such an approach will help my dear friend Jon Swift?
Just sayin’…
Fine dining
Ah, crawfish. Not a traditional Mother’s Day meal, but a good choice for the season. Now that I am working in the New Orleans area, I have grown to appreciate them more than I did in Houston. I guess it helps that they are cheaper as well.
I know that the Scandanavians eat crawfish (at least the Swedes do), but the only other place I have had them was in Australia, where they called them yabbies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby
Here’s a plate served to me on Kangaroo Island, South Australia during a visit to a “crayfish” farm. It’s just not the same without the Cajun spiciness.
http://www.glenniverstravels.com/Oceana/Australia/SA/pictures/SA122.jpg
The one that is split is called a marron; also a crawfish, but a larger species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marron
Glenn — cool links! Thanks! I didn’t know any of that!
Yup, crawfish are wayyyyy expensive around here. I really miss the days when a weekend afternoon included stopping at a place where they’d set up trestle tables in the parking lot, and they just dumped these yummies out by the ton.
My family obviously knows the key to my heart (and my good mood…)
Beautiful picture! Hope your day was wonderful.
Your DH and AC are to be congratulated on a very well planned celebratory dinner. I trust you all enjoyed it!
Dorothy, they are indeed to be congratulated! They recovered themselves well from the initial faux pas.
And yes — we enjoyed it indeed….
Hmmm… I thought you were supposed to drink Jax with crawfish…
~EdT.
What can I say? No Jax in my fridge… (are they still brewing it?)
I’m pretty sure Jax is long gone; Dixie hasn’t started back up since Katrina but is planning to. The only one left is Abita. I have a six pack of the Strawberry Lager in my fridge right now – interesting stuff.
As a beer drinker, I always try to support local – which means Abita in New Orleans, St. Arnold’s in Houston.
I agree that supporting local is the best way to go in most things. Good on ya! But my beer intake these days is limited to “with crawfish” — or “there’s a Blue Moon outside”, and DH just likes Heineken.
I see from your Flickr photostream, though, that you’re somewhat of an afficionado. Shoulda known….
::smiling::
Actually, they are brewing Dixie now — a contract brewer on the north shore. It tastes kinda like Dixie, but there’s no substitute for aging in the cypress barrels.
Oh, and wonderful pix o dem mudbugs. Happy mom’s day!
Thanks Ashley!
Ya know, the mudbugs have become kind of a symbol at my house. For the last few years, they’re also what we have for my Birthday Feast. It’s a lot of fun to watch our guests try to figure out how to deal with it. Their reactions to how I eat them vary from avoiding watching me to horrified, open-mouthed fascination.
LOL!!!!!
It’s a lot of fun to watch our guests try to figure out how to deal with it. Their reactions to how I eat them vary from avoiding watching me to horrified, open-mouthed fascination.
I thought the love for crawfish in SE Texas was almost as strong as it is in Louisiana! Your guests must be a bunch of transplanted Yankees! Either that, or the SE Texas border ends just east of Katy.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Some of both, I think. Katy’s in a bit of a bubble, and I’m not just talking about the weather.
The first time we did this, though, we had people visiting from the UK. That was just hysterical!