Which Zatarains though? Box with bag of whole spices Pack of the ground spices The bottle of the liquid
Per 20lbs or so of seafood: Get a big ****ing pot, fill it a bit more than half full with water Get a pack of zatarains crab/shrimp boil bay leaves cayanne. lots of cayanne mustard seed pepper corns, black celery seed lemons onions thai/jalapeno/habanero or whatever raw peppers you want Boil that ****. Add potatoes Boil that **** Add corn and whatnot If you're doing crawfish, purge your crawfish repeatedly Put live crawfish in heavy boiling water for 5 minutes Tale pot off heat, set pot on ground, add 1 lb kosher salt, stir, let sit for 30 minutes, strain, drain, pour on table, eat.
I didnt care for the Boil House. The crawfish texture was cooked to perfection but it was the flavoring that was very bland. You can tell it was cooked in with water and later sprinkle on the cajun seasoning.
how are there places that don't season their water??? that's so counter intuitive to good cooking it's insane.
This is the last week to get the best non-home boiled crawfish in town. The Crawfish Shack out in Crosby has closed their dine-in patio for the season and their drive threw will be closing on the 14th.
For those on the north side, the only other place that is even comparable to the Crawfish Shack in Crosby is Big Cabs Crawfish cabin https://www.facebook.com/Bigcabscrawfishcabin
Half of those places, if really cheap, end up tasting like Chinese Buffet food... I've never had real authentic cajun food so maybe that's what it's suppose to taste like?
Also, if you have leftovers, this is the greatest crawfish etouffee recipe ever: https://books.google.com/books?id=U...ew orleans cookbook crawfish etouffee&f=false
Get some Old Bay or Zatarain's and do it yourself. It's not that difficult. You could even use frozen corn on the cob and just buy some small spuds from the grocery section to make it easy.
I ate at Lotus Seafood yesterday! I got a piece of corn, potato and sausage along with shrimp fried rice with crawfish tails. Really, really good overall. I loved the seasoning of the veggies but I shouldn't have gotten it with the rice. The veggies were definitely authentic cajun seasoned but the rice made the overall taste feel chinese and didn't match well. I need to look at their menu and get the veggies with another dish. Now gotta try Boil House or The Boot. I don't want to travel much farther outside 610 than I did with Lotus
Nope. Just another one of those Asian owned places that does Seafood claiming to serve "Cajun" style food. For those of you who have attended live crawfish boils, it never comes out like this. See pic below. That oily red gunk on crawfish needs to stop. That's not authentic cajun. You see this at Jenivi's, la crawfish. la crawfish shack, crawfish and noodles.
