Crayfish Galore
Posted by Belle on 11 Jul 2007 at 08:59 pm | Tagged as: AZ, The Mogollon Rim, cooking, food
This morning, my husband got a call from our friend, Arne. He asked him if he wanted freshly caught crayfish. Without hesitation, my husband said, “yes, I am on my way, I will be there in 10 minutes.” Of course, he didn’t arrive until half an hour later because he waited for me and my daughter.
Crayfish are very popular in Sweden and in Southern US. Arne is originally from Sweden and he makes crayfish traps and sells it online. Around this time of year, he goes up on the lake in the Mogollon Rim to catch these little creatures. He usually stays overnight to get the most in as crayfish are nocturnal.
My whole family loves crayfish. We consider it a gourmet delight. We like to dip it on katsup. So, when our friend, Arne, was kind enough to offer his catch with us, we were so thrilled. The last time we ate crayfish was a year ago and we are so looking forward for the opportunity to feast on it again. He told my husband to get as many as he wanted. He took 120 of them. Quite a bit!
The moment we got home, we wasted no time boiling the water while the crayfish or crawdads were still alive. My husband added a fair amount of rock salt into the water. He waited until the water reached to a rolling boil and lowered down the strainer filled with crayfish. He waited again until it started boiling and timed it for seven minutes to cook completely. Then he let it sit in the cooking water for a while until it cooled off.
While it was cooling off, I took a piece, took another piece, and another piece. Pretty soon, I had a huge pile of crayfish shells on my plate. It tasted so good! I also gorged on the yellow butter inside the head. Yummy! What a treat!
You may visit Arne’s site here.
I love crayfish!!! But these look a bit different from what we have here. And the pot you use to cook this is so interesting. So nice, to be able to cook it outside.
Oh yummy! I’ve had fresh crayfish in New Orleans when we visited my SIL(her house was destroyed by Katrina
, they have moved now). I didn’t know that you can get crayfish in a lake.
I am off to New Orleans in 8 days, and I am planning to pig out (hehehe, there goes the diet)on sea food and of course that includes the crayfish. I intend to live and to eat like the New Orleaneans. I might even try the Hurricane drink…hehehe!!!
Looks scrumptious, amiga!!!
I don’t think I’ve ever had crayfish. they’re smaller versions of lobsters, it seems. yellow butter inside the head? what’s that?
Ooooh, looks so yummy! I often see them crayfish at the market still live. My husband objects with cooking anything live (semi- Buddhist lang, kasi he still eats meat!), so I can only look at your photos in envy.
Wil, the yellow butter – baka parang taba ng talangka.. Tama ba, belle?
Looks yummy, but the yellow butter,isn’t it like the orange yummy thing we get from shrimp too?
Hi Belle. Wow, that looks absolutely delicious.
Looks like this is an all Americans favourites. In HK, shrimps cooked half-steamed is one of their delicacies and you should order in 3 servings or so.
Delicious. Perhaps the cooking machine makes it even more palatable or the ingredients?
So .. those are crayfishes! I sometimes wondered. All I know of them is that there was a long-ago song by Elvis with the title. hahaha
Is it better than the best of our shrimps, Belle? I am a gumbo/gambas fanatic. These days, all I order when I go out is gambas or shrimp tempura or chili shrimps. Oooh yum yum.
ohhh la la! they look so yummy…now my mouth is watering!
oohh yummy yummy… I’ve had that just once in a restaurant. They’re not available at the fish mongers, or perhaps lagi akong nauubusan.
Belle, sarap naman!
oh you guys are so lucky to have fresh crayfish! I love them, and had never had them fresh. I look for the day when I can do like you did and cook it right at home
wow, looks so yummy. hay sarap kumain ng seafoods…
Crayfish? urang na darakula?