Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
I'm going up to Lake Tahoe in July and there is a ton of great crawfish in that lake that the authorities would love for people to remove. The lake is 6200 ft elevation and fairly clear - 75' vis average. As far as I know by looking at the regs there is nbo season and no limit. The bugs are clean and good, and big.
There are millions of them.
I plan to make a day out of setting traps and also grabbing as many as I can get while scuba diving off my kayak.
I'll bring the biggest pot I have and my burner to boil them. We're going to have one hell of a crawdad eatin and beer drinkin fest after.
My question is, are there any Louisiana (New Orleans - Creole's - or Southerners in general) around here that might have a really great crawdad boil recipe they'd be willing to share?
I have some Zatarain's crab and crawfish boil, but I don't know if somebody might have an old family recipe that's home made that's better.
Or maybe I should do something else with them? Like a sautee' with white wine garlic butter, or crawfish omelette?
P.S. The trade is if you ever come out this way, I take you abalone diving and we have an abalone feast afterward on the beach...with the best micro brew or wine the region has to offer...and that is about the best in the world.
There are millions of them.
I plan to make a day out of setting traps and also grabbing as many as I can get while scuba diving off my kayak.
I'll bring the biggest pot I have and my burner to boil them. We're going to have one hell of a crawdad eatin and beer drinkin fest after.
My question is, are there any Louisiana (New Orleans - Creole's - or Southerners in general) around here that might have a really great crawdad boil recipe they'd be willing to share?
I have some Zatarain's crab and crawfish boil, but I don't know if somebody might have an old family recipe that's home made that's better.
Or maybe I should do something else with them? Like a sautee' with white wine garlic butter, or crawfish omelette?
P.S. The trade is if you ever come out this way, I take you abalone diving and we have an abalone feast afterward on the beach...with the best micro brew or wine the region has to offer...and that is about the best in the world.