My New Love!!!

I have finally realized after all this time that I LOVE CRAWFISH!!!

Oh look at those scrumptious looking crawfish! It's taken some time for me to fall in total love with this food. I've been living off and on here in Louisiana for over 12 years now and it's not been until now that I have been brave enough to try and really like this.

I've done it once or twice and didn't like it. One reason why I didn't like it was that I thought it was too much work for such little results. You have to break and tear and get stuff all over your hands to get this little tail of meat. Why would I want to go through all of that for this?

Second reason why I didn't like it very much was that the couple of times that I had it, it tasted gross. One time I had it at a casino. Not very good. Another time, I had one and it was way too spicey. I put it on my lips and it burned for five minutes. Not good at all.

Then, I went to a barbeque place in DeRidder, and decided to get two pounds with some potatoes and corn. Let me go back a second. Everyone at my work rants and raves about crawfish. They love it. They all say which place is the best. I kind of felt out of place since I didn't really like it all that much. I went with my friend Kevin to a seafood place for lunch and he ordered some. He let me try a few and gave me a few pointers on how to eat it with out so much mess. They were okay. But once again, it was burning my lips.

Then we went to the Barbeque place. I ordered the two pounds with potatoes and corn. They were awesome! My mother-in-law helped me and even showed me how to eat the claws! The spice was really good and it did get hot but not burn your lips hot.

It finally hit me. This really isn't about eating it and getting full. Eating crawfish seems to me like it's more about having fun! It's not formal. It's realxed and laid back. If you fingers get messy, so what? I really enjoyed eating it. I had fun and when it was over, I was hooked! I keep begging my wife for more.

She finally caved in on Saturday. She let me run out and buy some. I got 10 pounds of the critters from J&T's here in Leesville. They made them perfect! Only wish that I had more potatoes that were cooked in with them. Brought them home and we chowed down on them. See the pictures?

(This is the aftermath. We tore through these suckers!!!)

So Now, I can say with out a doubt, I love me some CrawDaddys!!!!

I can't wait to do it again. But after eating this, I think I've had my fill for a few days. But I do feel the urge to buy some more coming soon. HEHEHE!

(I wonder if this is good for dieting???)