More Crawfish

To Mason. To extract the crawfish fat, first remove the tail from the head. Then pry open the carapace and insert your index finger. Using your finger scrape out the fat . Quite simple, if not elegant!

Dyeing Eggs & Drinking Beer

Easter is my favorite holiday

Gumbo Dinner

Morele cooked a chicken/sausage gumbo for the old Krewe of Rex Arborius founders. We've all gotten a bit older but we can still party like it's 1999.

Munchkins

Rhian and Max came over to play. We built a cardboard fort.

Spring Flowers

Crawfish Etoufee (A-Too-Fay)

Old time crawfish etoufee was made using the crawfish fat as a flavoring agent. In the early 1970's the FDA prohibited the crawfish processors from selling crawfish fat. I bought a sack of live crawfish and Robin and Jason came over to help peel. We saved the fat and Morele cooked an old time etoufee. Man, dat was good, yah.

Jerry The Cat

Jerry enjoying the Spring sunshine.

The Belleville Outfit

Our friends CJ and Yvonne hosted a young group of musicians out of Austin at their home Friday night. The group is called Belleville Outfit. The music was eclectic.

Crawfish Burl