Crawfish, Boudin, and Cracklin!

[BrahmaMama]

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Of course chocolate is a food group, and of course pizza is a whole food. I wouldn't touch the coffee thing with a ten foot pole....

Can't believe someone hasn't asked what boudin is.

I haven't read the rest of the thread yet...but I'd be the one asking...

 

[Krysstyllanthrox]

Ya'll are making me homesick!

I'm from Louisiana and miss the food something fierce. Okies have no idea how to cook.

I think I'd just about kill for some crawfish about now.

In defense of the Okies though, any of them that get a taste of my food swear I'm the best cook they ever met. I tell them that is just how real food is supposed to taste.

 

[ranchhand]

Mudbugs? I'm in!

I used to crab and fish here, I worked on a clam farm with a dock in the Folly River. Company closed and I have to buy crabs, shrimp, stone crabs and fish now.

 

[ranchhand]

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Of course chocolate is a food group, and of course pizza is a whole food. I wouldn't touch the coffee thing with a ten foot pole....

Can't believe someone hasn't asked what boudin is.

I haven't read the rest of the thread yet...but I'd be the one asking...

Boudin- (BOO-dan) Whitish sausage made with meats, spices an rice.

That's the vague definition. Lots of different ways to make it. You use what you have!

Poulets needs to answer in detail.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Boudin is a sausage of sorts, but not really. Its ground meat and rice and spices that are cooked and put into casing. The casing used to be pig intestines, but its now made artificially. Generally you "suck" or sqeeze the meat and rice out of the casing, although some people do eat the casing too. It is steamed so it is usually very soft and not firm like a true "sausage."

 

[gypsy2621]

I am deathly allergic to shell fish of all kinds mud bugs included, but with me trusty scrubber gloves( new pkg) I make the crawfish, true southern sausage gravy, unsweetened corn bread and sweet tea for dinner during the summer.
even up here hubby goes buggin and brings home some decent sized ones.

I sit there and watch hubby and son in law and 3 of trhe children pigging out on mud bugs,
daughter and I sit there and eat the sausage gravy and corn bread lol.( she is shell fish allergic also)
Geesh I miss the South, <snif>

 

[key west chick]

Wow, I can remember going crabbing and bringing back a bucket of blue crabs. I can't remember how she cooked them, but I remember chasing them through the mud flats yelling,"there it goes"!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

My dad goes shrimping in the gulf so we always have a yearly supply of fresh shrimp. And he'll keep the blue point crabs and boil them when he gets home. The other way to crab is with a fishing pole and chicken necks...

 

[BrahmaMama]

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That sounds like something I'd be up for trying

Thanks for the explanation Poulets, and thank you too Ranchhand!

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

This is what boudin looks like