Crawdads in Louisiana

[BALAAM]

We boiled and ate a little over 150 pounds of them this weekend.  DELICIOUS!!!! 

Just the two of you??

 

[Castor Muscular]

We boiled and ate a little over 150 pounds of them this weekend.  DELICIOUS!!!! 

Just the two of you??

150 pounds of crawdads = about 3 pounds of meat, right?

 

[graceandtruth]

We boiled and ate a little over 150 pounds of them this weekend.  DELICIOUS!!!! 

Just the two of you??

150 pounds of crawdads = about 3 pounds of meat, right?

LOL.........a little more than that 3 pounds.

It was a little more than two of us we have 19 with just us and the 2 grands but we had about 30 folks over and there was still enough for crawfish etouffee, crawfish bisque and fried catfish tonight. 

 

[BALAAM]

Seriously, I love seafood, I love crawfish, clams, lobster, crabs, etc. But, being from the far north I have never learned to be able to get the meat out without a lot of labor. By the time I get all of the meat out of the crabs it is cold. Please Send Help!

 

[Evelyn]

Seriously, I love seafood, I love crawfish, clams, lobster, crabs, etc. But, being from the far north I have never learned to be able to get the meat out without a lot of labor. By the time I get all of the meat out of the crabs it is cold. Please Send Help!

that;s the beautiful thing about tako... .... no bones... no shells... .. just chop em up and boil em.. . . you just gotta watch out for those tentacles and not let them bite you with their razor sharp beak .. while your spearing them and putting them in the bag...  ...

which reminds me.....  i;m a little surprised after reading posters describe how they eat crawdads and enjoy the juices in the head,  that some saw my picture of tako poke' and thought it looked disgusting....  :-\

It's the tentacles that get to me, Girly. lol

 

[Evelyn]

Seriously, I love seafood, I love crawfish, clams, lobster, crabs, etc. But, being from the far north I have never learned to be able to get the meat out without a lot of labor. By the time I get all of the meat out of the crabs it is cold. Please Send Help!

that;s the beautiful thing about tako... .... no bones... no shells... .. just chop em up and boil em.. . . you just gotta watch out for those tentacles and not let them bite you with their razor sharp beak .. while your spearing them and putting them in the bag...  ...

which reminds me.....  i;m a little surprised after reading posters describe how they eat crawdads and enjoy the juices in the head,  that some saw my picture of tako poke' and thought it looked disgusting....  :-\

It's the tentacles that get to me, Girly. lol

check this out...  this guy does a good job of spearing his tako....
but then can;t get him off the spear....  and the tentacles get the best of him too... .. .
you can hear his friend with the camera giggling about his dilemma ......  

egan owned by tako


i use a different kind of spear but i;ve had that same kind of thing
happen to me before too... . .spear fishing for tako can be difficult and tedious work.. .
but for a fresh bowl of tako poke' it;s worth it... . ;D...

They must carry a lifetime supply of ink!!!  I do enjoy squid, but only if it's julienne'd and deep-fried in a batter.  I've never had octopus, though.

Is it pig hunting season for you?

 

[Evelyn]

Seriously, I love seafood, I love crawfish, clams, lobster, crabs, etc. But, being from the far north I have never learned to be able to get the meat out without a lot of labor. By the time I get all of the meat out of the crabs it is cold. Please Send Help!

that;s the beautiful thing about tako... .... no bones... no shells... .. just chop em up and boil em.. . . you just gotta watch out for those tentacles and not let them bite you with their razor sharp beak .. while your spearing them and putting them in the bag...  ...

which reminds me.....  i;m a little surprised after reading posters describe how they eat crawdads and enjoy the juices in the head,  that some saw my picture of tako poke' and thought it looked disgusting....  :-\

It's the tentacles that get to me, Girly. lol

check this out...  this guy does a good job of spearing his tako....
but then can;t get him off the spear....  and the tentacles get the best of him too... .. .
you can hear his friend with the camera giggling about his dilemma ......  

egan owned by tako


i use a different kind of spear but i;ve had that same kind of thing
happen to me before too... . .spear fishing for tako can be difficult and tedious work.. .
but for a fresh bowl of tako poke' it;s worth it... . ;D...

They must carry a lifetime supply of ink!!!  I do enjoy squid, but only if it's julienne'd and deep-fried in a batter.  I've never had octopus, though.

Is it pig hunting season for you?

it;s always pig hunting season here.... ... year round... . .  the pig population reduction program is still going on full force... . the overall numbers of them haven;t dropped that much.. .. but they haven;t been growing any either..... .. .. we are actually planning to go tomorrow morning to hunt a high rainforest area above the remote north shore area...... . .. it will be fun whether we actually kill a pig or not... .. but if we do get one it will all the better... ..

So?  How did the hunt go? 

 

[Evelyn]

Seriously, I love seafood, I love crawfish, clams, lobster, crabs, etc. But, being from the far north I have never learned to be able to get the meat out without a lot of labor. By the time I get all of the meat out of the crabs it is cold. Please Send Help!

that;s the beautiful thing about tako... .... no bones... no shells... .. just chop em up and boil em.. . . you just gotta watch out for those tentacles and not let them bite you with their razor sharp beak .. while your spearing them and putting them in the bag...  ...

which reminds me.....  i;m a little surprised after reading posters describe how they eat crawdads and enjoy the juices in the head,  that some saw my picture of tako poke' and thought it looked disgusting....  :-\

It's the tentacles that get to me, Girly. lol

check this out...  this guy does a good job of spearing his tako....
but then can;t get him off the spear....  and the tentacles get the best of him too... .. .
you can hear his friend with the camera giggling about his dilemma ......  

egan owned by tako


i use a different kind of spear but i;ve had that same kind of thing
happen to me before too... . .spear fishing for tako can be difficult and tedious work.. .
but for a fresh bowl of tako poke' it;s worth it... . ;D...

They must carry a lifetime supply of ink!!!  I do enjoy squid, but only if it's julienne'd and deep-fried in a batter.  I've never had octopus, though.

Is it pig hunting season for you?

it;s always pig hunting season here.... ... year round... . .  the pig population reduction program is still going on full force... . the overall numbers of them haven;t dropped that much.. .. but they haven;t been growing any either..... .. .. we are actually planning to go tomorrow morning to hunt a high rainforest area above the remote north shore area...... . .. it will be fun whether we actually kill a pig or not... .. but if we do get one it will all the better... ..

So?  How did the hunt go? 

it went good... .. super hot and steamy during the day then it rained really hard at night....typical rain forest weather.. .  .  we ended up staying over night and my dad got really big boar the next morning... . .not sure how much it weighed coz we gutted it before taking it back to camp...  but i think it was well over 100 pounds.. . too big for me to back pack..  so my dad carried it back... . the kalua pork from it took up all the extra space we had left in both our freezers plus we gave away a lot of it.... .

The potential of that pig sounds absolutely delicious! lol