cajun boil part deux

[trlcavscout]

15 potatoes, 16 ears of corn, 10 andouille sausage, 2# of craw fish, 3# of shrimp, 3# of crab legs and hush puppies. Had my dad over, me the wife and 2 kids we only ate about half haha. I used zatarans liquid and spice bags and some spice the crawfish came with. Made my own cocktail sauce and all. Turned out really good and I have lunch tomorrow. Only thing I have to change is the sausage was to spicy for the daughter, need to try a different brand next time.

[Inconel710]

My wife says we're on our way!

Where'd you get the crawfish? Was it the frozen Chinese stuff?

[trlcavscout]

My wife says we're on our way!

Where'd you get the crawfish? Was it the frozen Chinese stuff?

I used the frozen whole craws this time. Boudreaux's from wall mart. They weren't to bad for frozen! I have some traps though so going forward I will be using fresh.

[Inconel710]

You're still trapping crawfish in this weather?! Things I wish I'd known a few years ago. We go back to visit my wife's family in Louisiana every year and eat pounds of the stuff to hold us over until the next trip.

[trlcavscout]

You're still trapping crawfish in this weather?! Things I wish I'd known a few years ago. We go back to visit my wife's family in Louisiana every year and eat pounds of the stuff to hold us over until the next trip.

I haven't caught them since I lived in Arizona, but I was talking to a friend that does it year round here even on the ice when he is ice fishing. So I went and bought some new traps to give it a whirl.

[Tinelement]

That looks amazing, except the crab would kill me!

[trlcavscout]

Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?

[Goodburbon]

Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?

Everyone comes up with their own to suit their tastes.

I use ketchup, covered with creole seasoning till you can barely see ketchup. Stir it in and mix in Cajun power garlic sauce to taste roughly 2:1 ketchup to garlic sauce.


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[Great-Kazoo]

Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?

Add some crushed or chopped garlic, red pepper flakes, lemon juice AND flavor to taste, with sweet baby rays bbq sauce. I usually add 1 tbsp. If not bbq, use adobo chili powder. The red pepper flakes give it some zing.
To really appreciate the coctail sauce you should mix it a few hrs before, this way the individual flavors have time to blend.

[Jer]

Add some crushed or chopped garlic, red pepper flakes, lemon juice AND flavor to taste, with sweet baby rays bbq sauce. I usually add 1 tbsp. If not bbq, use adobo chili powder. The red pepper flakes give it some zing.
To really appreciate the coctail sauce you should mix it a few hrs before, this way the individual flavors have time to blend.

Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet & Spicy FTW!