Crawfish Boil and Cajun Dinner

My wonderful friend Kevin, and his partner Juliet host an amazing Crawfish Boil every year. It’s one of the best parties of the year and such a special treat to get to all-you-can-eat Crawfish made by a real Cajun. Kevin shares his culture with us by cooking an amazing meal of crawfish, corn, potatoes, and andouille sausage in a giant pot. It’s usually hosted in South Philly in a beautiful garden and goes all night long with lots and lots of beer to cool us off as the night goes on. Each round of the boil gets hotter and hotter as more seasoning is added to the water. By the end, you eat a crawfish, sip your beer, and repeat until all the crawfish are gone. Here’s Kevin piling crawfish, corn, potatoes and sausage into the pot, boiling it, and dumping it out onto a giant table. It’s quite the process. Then we all dig in and eat to our hearts content. Kevin shows the newbies how to each crawfish. 1. Grab the crawfish and twist to separate the tail from the head. 2. Suck the head. This is spicy! Discard. 3. Pinch the tail to break the shell. Pull … Continue reading