Crawfish Etoufee..............

[Micanopy]

One pound of crawfish tails
1 onion chopped
one green pepper chopped
4 stalks celeary chopped
1 tablespoon cayenne pepper
1 bunch green onion tops
hand full of dried parsely
3 cups of water
2 tablespoons garlic
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup butter

1st make a light colored roux: melt butter in a deep pan and add flour, stir constantly until the color is about like peanut butter.
Add the chopped veggies and stir cook until the onion is transparent. Add the water and bring to boil. Lower to simmer and stir occasionally for about 40 minutes. Add the crawfish tails and cook for ten minutes, Then add the chopped green onion tops and the parsely. Cook for 10 mor minutes.
Serve over a bed of rice.
you can substitute one cup of the water with a cup of white wine.

[Blackfeet]

Thank you, I will be trying that one

[Honovi Mahala]

I just love cajon food

[Micanopy]

Its good stuff. We eat it here least once a week. You can substitute the crawfish with crab, shrimp, gator, turtle.......

[Hammerhead]

thank you micanopy my class is gonna love this at our cookout

[William]

Its good stuff. We eat it here least once a week. You can substitute the crawfish with crab, shrimp, gator, turtle.......

This man can cook, he made a seafood gumbo dish for dinner one night when we were hog hunting back in November; that was good stuff!  I'm sure the crawfish etoofee would be as fabulous following his recipe.

[Hammerhead]

im puttin three traps in the water sunday i hope i get enough to cook.

[Hammerhead]

water will be about 40 degrees should that be warm enough for them

[Micanopy]

Crawfish thrive in water between 40 and 90 degrees. Catch a bunch of them, purge them in clean water for a day or two, swap the water out until it stays clear, this gets the mud outa the crawfish. You can boil them first, then make the etoufee, or peel them out the tails while alive, which keeps the fat on the tails adding some more flavor to the mix. But do purge them. You can use frozen preshucked crawfish for the etoufee, fresher is better.

[Hammerhead]

im gonna be catfishing also all day and useing sunfish for bait for my traps how often should i check my traps

[Micanopy]

Its good stuff. We eat it here least once a week. You can substitute the crawfish with crab, shrimp, gator, turtle.......

This man can cook, he made a seafood gumbo dish for dinner one night when we were hog hunting back in November; that was good stuff!  I'm sure the crawfish etoofee would be as fabulous following his recipe.

Yer to kind brother, thanks. The gumbo had pretty much every thing you could get in a southern swamp or bayou. Including alligator, crawfish, shrimp, blue crabs, cat fish, not much of it left over.

[Micanopy]

im gonna be catfishing also all day and useing sunfish for bait for my traps how often should i check my traps

I used to check mine twice a day and freshin the bait in the afternoon. Crawfish are more active, like all crustachions, at night.

[Hammerhead]

no creeks or nothin close enough to my house to leave it all night

[Micanopy]

They;ll eat during the day but more active at night.

[Hammerhead]

ok. well i will try to get enough to make something i need at least two pounds for me i know that much