Elvis Loves Crawfish!

Even Elvis loves crawfish!  Enjoy!

This is from the movie King Creole

Are Ya' Gettin' Ready?

The crawfish are comin'!  Are ya' gettin' ready?

Countdown: 29 days

Bayou....

BAYOU  /Buy-you/ n. a French name for slow moving river.

Countdown to the Boil: 37 Days

The Crawfish Crawl

The countdown has begun.....

46 DAYS until the Crawfish Boil!



Washington Facts

Since we are having our Crawfish Boil in Washington state, I thought you would enjoy some fun facts about Washington too.....

• The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.
• Seattle is home to the first revolving restaurant, 1961.
• Washington state produces more apples than any other state in the union.
• The highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier. It was named after Peter Rainier, a British soldier who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
• The oldest operating gas station in the United States is in Zillah.
• Washington's state insect is the Green Darner Dragonfly.
• The world's first soft-serve ice cream machine was located in an Olympia Dairy Queen.
• During the Great Depression, a series of hydroelectric dams were constructed along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity. This culminated in 1941 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest dam in the United States
• Popular games Pictionary, Pickle-ball, and Cranium were all invented in Washington.
• Seattle was the first city in the US to play a Beatles song on the radio.
• Seattle was the first American city to put police on bicycles.

Louisana Facts

• Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
• Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties. Its political subdivisions are called parishes.
• Metairie is home to the longest bridge over water in the world, the Lake Pontchartrain causeway. The causeway connects Metairie with St. Tammany Parish on the North Shore. The causeway is 24 miles long.
• In Louisiana, biting someone with your natural teeth is considered a simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth is considered an aggravated assault.
• The Catahoula Leopard Dog, often called the Catahoula Hound, is the official state dog.
• Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the United States; the building is 450 feet tall with 34 floors.
• The Magnolia is the state flower.
• The state crustacean is the Crawfish.
• The first opera performed in America was in 1796 in New Orleans.
• Louisiana is America's second largest producer of natural gas. It supplies one-third of the total U.S. production.
• Louisiana is the largest producer of oysters in the United States.
• Louisiana leads the nation in the production of crawfish with approximately 100 million pounds of crawfish per year.

 

What 'cha Wearin'?

What ya' gonna wear to the boil?

Break out yer fancy suspenders 'cause we're gonna party y'all!

A Look Back....

Here's a peek at last year's crawfish boil.  Yummy!

On The Bayou

Our 2nd Annual Crawfish Boil is goin' be here before we know it!

Remember these?

Save the Date: August 18th, 2012

You Might Be A Cajun If.....

• You won't eat a lobster because you think it's a crawfish on steroids.
• You take a bite of 5-alarm Texas chili and reach for some Tabasco.
• You're asked in school to name the four seasons and you reply, "Onyons, celery, bell peppers, and garlic."
• You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and someone says, "Don't eat the dead ones" and you know what they mean.
• You refer to Louisiana winters as "gumbo weather"
• You can look at a rice field and can tell how much gravy it'll take for that much rice.

Good Eatin'

Crawfish comin' our way from Louisiana!

According to Cajun Legend.....

Crawfish are descendants of the Maine lobster.

After the Acadians (now called Cajuns) were exiled in the 1700s from Nova Scotia, the lobsters yearned for the Cajuns so much that they set off cross the country to find them.

This journey, over land and sea, was so long and treacherous that the lobsters began to shrink in size. By the time they found the Cajuns in Louisiana, they had shrunk so much that they hardly looked like lobsters anymore.

A great festival was held up their arrival, and this smaller lobster was renamed crawfish.

History of the Crawfish

Nothing else symbolizes the Cajun culture of Louisiana like crawfish. Crawfish have become synonymous with the hardy French pioneers who settled in the area after being forced by British troops to leave their homes in Nova Scotia.

Crawfish (or crayfish) resemble tiny lobsters. They are also known in the south as mudbugs because they live in the mud of freshwater bayous. they are more tender than lobsters and have a unique flavor. Today crawfish are raised commercially and are an important Louisiana industry.

The local Indians are credited with harvesting and consuming crawfish before the Cajuns arrived. They would bait reeds with venison, stick them in the water, then pick up the reeds with the crawfish attached to the bait. By using this method, the Indians would catch bushels of crawfish for their consumption. By the 1930s, nets were substituted, and by the 1950s, the crawfish trap was used.

On July 14, 1983, Louisiana’s governor approved a law designating the crawfish as the state crustacean. Louisiana thus became the first state to adopt an official crustacean. That's how serious Louisiana is about their crawfish.

So Are Ya Comin'?

SO ARE YOU COMIN' TO OUR CRAWFISH BOIL?

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU!

HEAD ON OVER TO OUR HOUSE ON:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18TH

@ 2:00 PM