Crawfish season!!! Louisiana people count down the days to this fabulous time of year…it gives us something positive to focus on right before hurricane season! We are lucky enough to have a friend, Patrick, that lives in the heart of Cajun land and he agreed to throw a crawfish boil for Mao and Momoko (another exchange student from Japan staying close to us) to introduce them to our enjoyable signature food.
Momoko & Mao
Also, his mother is Japanese so she was able to come and help explain things. She brought some Japanese rice cakes to top with crawfish and crab meat and, of course, some soy sauce for dipping.
The girls leanring the fine art of getting the meat out of the mud-bug: pinch the head off, peal the first ring of shell from the tail, pinch the end of the tail and pull the meat from the other end, don't forget to devein it!! And if you feel adventurous - SUCK THE HEAD! That's where all the juice is!!
making their crawfish rice cakes...too cute
I think that made it much more enjoyable for the girls, but that is DEFINITELY not how the Cajuns eat it!! Like most things in Louisiana, we like it HOT with a whole lot of spice!
Christina, Momoko, & MaoAfter eating until we were about to bust the girls then got to see one of his sons catch a catfish out of their pond and clean it for us…they weren’t real impressed by this!
He was kind enough to give us that meat, as well as a ton of left-over’s from the boiling pot, for dinner another night. Thank you so much for treating us to your Japanese-Cajun hospitality!!
1 comments:
They really looked like they had fun with those mud bugs! :)
Dori
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