Crawfish Nutrition....

Crawfish are an excellent source of high-quality protein and are low in

calories, fat and saturated fat.

They also are a good source of vitamin B12, niacin, iron, copper and selenium.

 Better yet, crawfish are easy to prepare, and they taste great!

Looking Forward to the Next Crawfish Boil

Are 'ya gettin'ready to party?  Bruce and Hallie's
Annual Crawafish Boil is comin' up!

Mark your calendars for:

Saturday, JULY 27th 2013

Hope to see you there!

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.

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

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.