Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Catching Crawdads
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4 comments:
That looks like a different beastie than what I grew up catching on the Gulf Coast. Different species? Genus? Or is that a somewhat battered individual?
If your pet crawled into something and expired, you will soon know. I speak from experience!
When I was a struggling college student my roommate and I would catch crawdads in a local rivulet ("stream" would be an exaggeration), boil them like crabs, pull off and shell the tails, and fix them with pasta and pesto sauce.
Mmmmmmm, poverty food! Good with beer.
We live close enough to Louisiana for them to be available in town seasonally. Rice growers on the coast have learned to make them a second crop in the same paddy with rice.
@ G Robinson. It's amazing what tastes good when you're broke and starving.
I remember those things looking a lot bigger and scarier when I was a kid! I didn't like touching the muddy spots at the lake due to a fear of them. It's fun watching another generation doing the same things I did as a kid in the desert!
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