Sunday, July 23, 2006

Crawfish Dinner

After attending church with the Woodlands we went back to their house and had lunch. We had planned on going home after church, however another friend of ours (Chad and Mandy Wright) from our old Springville neighborhood showed up at Jakes church.

They planned on staying the night and spending Monday the 24th with them. (Since Monday the 24th is pretty much a holiday in Utah). We decided we were having too much fun to go home, so we decided to stay another day too.

For Dinner we all pitched in some food and made a huge meal.

Next to the Woodlands house, there is a canal for watering fields and it is filled with Crawfish. We took some of the fish heads from yesterday, tied them on to a string and went out to the canal. About 15 seconds after throwing your fish heads in to the water, you can pull up your string and you will have anywhere from 2 to 5 Crawfish trying to eat your bait. As long as you leave them in the water and put some sort of net underneath them, its easy to catch them.

We caught about 80-100 in about 10 minutes. It was quite fun. Here's our cooler full of live Crawfish.



Jake washed them all up and got them ready for dinner.



The Crawfish were really good. A little on the small side and you had to do alot of work to get them out, but the tail and the claws were really good tasting. Something I wouldn't mind having on a regular basis.