What's a Crawdad and do I want to eat it?!
What's a Crawdad and do I want to eat it?
My friend & I share a love for sports and food. He recently came down from Louisiana with a taste for crayfish and he went to our local fish market and placed an order for 150 frozen Crawdads. I was filled in as to what they are and I am freaked. Do they taste good? Aren't the waters in Louisina dirty? Should I stop being such a child and just enjoy the nice dinner that my friend worked his butt off to make for me (and others)? I guess I'm just really "weirded" out and just need a little bit of a push. Please leave any comments bad or good that you have about the "Crawdad".
Thank You.
Answers: Kinda like a cross between shrimp and lobster.
They are really good if you like the seafood, and you should not worry about "dirty water" because most of them are farmed in rice fields. When they harvest the rice, they drain the fields and harvest the crayfish.
The frozen ones are not going to be as good as the live ones. The live ones are like having a mini-lobster boil.
Anyway, just give it a try. Most people only eat the tails. Some people suck on the head to get the full experience.
Good Luck. Crawdads, Crayfish and Mud Bugs are all the same critter. They look like teeny tiny baby lobsters. They taste very good. Don't be freaked by the names. It's good eating. I haven't had them since I was a kid, but I remember I really liked them.
Give 'em a try and let us know how you liked them! I beleive it is a shellfish, that resembles a small lobster, but I believe they are more from a river than the ocean, they are often refered to as mudbugs. I have never had them, I have heard they are good. its a small lobster like fish also know-ed as a craw fish..yes I want to eat it..can-jun style...and wash it down with a cold beer...I want to eat hundreds..of them... its like a little lobster and its really good They taste allot like shrimp but since he is following a Louisiana recipe they will be spicy - go a head and enjoy. They are fresh water so they are cleaner than those caught close to shore. think of it as a little lobster....only you are supposed to suck the brains out also. never had whole crawdads but had the meat in a gumbo once. it actually is good. If you believe in biblical teaching and alike, they forbid you to eat any such type creature. Read specifically in Leviticus chapter 11 it goes into detail about what animals are unclean and therefore shouldn't be eaten. They include in verse 9 marine animals. It states that you may eat what ever has both fins and scales. You may not, however, eat marine animals that do not have both fins and scales. You are to detest them and they will always be forbidden to you. So that includes seafood like crab, shrimp, lobster, octipi, etc... This same thought is reiterated in the book of Isiah.
Hope I made a difference in your viewing of food. Remember that not everything was ment to be eaten. Just because it can be doesn't mean it should be. Crayfish are tasty!
If you like lobster or shrinp, you'll probably like crayfish.
Crayfish are no more dirty than shrimp, lobster, fish, especially pork! You eat bacon, right? Pigs wallow around in mud and $#:+, yet few of us think bacon is dirty.
Enjoy them! :o) crawdad's are from the crab family, they are great tasting, and have more flavor than crabs..no , the waters are not dirty,( some of the best catfish comes from down there.) crawdad's also make an excellent subsitute for crab in crab chippino...you ought to bake up some fresh french bread and watch the prepertation, most of louisaannas recipies are origianlly from New Orleans, and they really know how to cook fish...bon'appitte..I am sure your in for a real treat We have them in our mountain lakes in Utah, clean water. I remember the day I first caught one..lol I was about 18 and fishing with a spinner for trout..guess what I caught? LMAO..I thought I had a lobster (yeah right, from a high mountain lake in Utah) and was just a yelling to everyone that hey I caught a lobster, I caught a lobster! Twenty plus years later they still tease me over my "lobster" catch!
Around here, they cook them like you would cook lobster and put them right into the boiling water and dip the meat into melted butter with a little garlic in it, or other sauces, but that is what the favorite seems to be.
If you like lobster and shrimp then you should enjoy these too! sounds wierd Oh I grew up on crawdads. I would raft down the rivers with my Dad and catch them. Oh they are oh so yummy with melted butter. They do taste kinda a cross between a shrimp and lobster. They aren't sweet like crab, but have a very mild smooth taste. Oh try one out. Maybe someone will be willing to take the meat out for you to try. Crawdads look and taste like mini lobsters. Your friend is giving you a real treat, go for it. yummy =]
they're look just like mini lobsters
and taste really good
and it doesn't really matter if the water in Louisiana is dirty
cuz they should be cooked, and if not well cleaned.
and if theyre frozen, they couldve come from anywhere, and they wouldnt sell something thats not ok to eat =]
just forget about youre worries and enjoy the dinner youre having with your friend