My boy and me recently had and opportunity to spend the day on the lake with
Rafter H BBQ
and his son Pete “hunting” down some “Idaho Lobsters” aka the signal crawfish….. so a big shout to the SMF for allowing people from all over to share a common love of food and life!
It was a beautiful day on the lake with good company, music, snacks, and people watching (all the wake surfers). It started by stuffing 1/2 a dozen cut up whole tilapia into 15 traps w/40 ft of line and a buoy…..it’s a challenge to keep everything straight and in order while setting them along 700 feet or so of shore line….ie a rocky bottom at 30-35 ish feet deep…… 3 hours later…..the reward!
Got a very nice haul!!! Averaged 8-9 per trap…..that’s a whole bunch of crawlers!
so after cleaning all the bait boxes, and dealing with all the line and storing the traps we called it a day and split the spoils with Rafter H BBQ and Pete at sunset on the lake and parted ways!
I like to boil them up same day so our share went into a seasoned pot for a hot pot bath…. Old bay, kinders seafood, garlic & onion powder, crab boil, and some white wine vinegar…….
Doing the midnight rapid air cool!
Now this is a bowl full of crawlers!!!!
Most of these got wrapped in plastic wrap (to protect or cover all the sharp spines) then into a vacuum bag for the freezer!!!!
However we did save some for the following days meal……they were going to be shelled and into some Alfredo but the wife wanted to try a new curry paste she recently got at the big town Asian market……
So as I was spinning crawler tails and shelling claws she was simmering some galangal root, lime leaf, lemon grass root, massaman, baby spuds, onion, and roots….man oh man the flavors and smell……sorry no pics as I was busy cleaning the crawlers…… after a long simmer and the roots were just right the pot got some coconut milk to round it out and then the cleaned crawlers and a wife idea add to drop some shrimp and scallops. The scallops were spilt and got a 45 second pan sear to flavor and then dropped in the pot with the rest of the goodies!
Ok so enough words….the pic!
It got ladled over rice and topped with GO, cilantro, Thai red peppers, and roasted peanuts…..
Oh my this is my new fav curry of all time!!!!
Oh need to add I’ve seen Rafter H BBQ traditional boil pics, I hope he posts them as they are perfect boil!!!!!
It was a beautiful day on the lake with good company, music, snacks, and people watching (all the wake surfers). It started by stuffing 1/2 a dozen cut up whole tilapia into 15 traps w/40 ft of line and a buoy…..it’s a challenge to keep everything straight and in order while setting them along 700 feet or so of shore line….ie a rocky bottom at 30-35 ish feet deep…… 3 hours later…..the reward!
Got a very nice haul!!! Averaged 8-9 per trap…..that’s a whole bunch of crawlers!
so after cleaning all the bait boxes, and dealing with all the line and storing the traps we called it a day and split the spoils with Rafter H BBQ and Pete at sunset on the lake and parted ways!
I like to boil them up same day so our share went into a seasoned pot for a hot pot bath…. Old bay, kinders seafood, garlic & onion powder, crab boil, and some white wine vinegar…….
Doing the midnight rapid air cool!
Now this is a bowl full of crawlers!!!!
Most of these got wrapped in plastic wrap (to protect or cover all the sharp spines) then into a vacuum bag for the freezer!!!!
However we did save some for the following days meal……they were going to be shelled and into some Alfredo but the wife wanted to try a new curry paste she recently got at the big town Asian market……
So as I was spinning crawler tails and shelling claws she was simmering some galangal root, lime leaf, lemon grass root, massaman, baby spuds, onion, and roots….man oh man the flavors and smell……sorry no pics as I was busy cleaning the crawlers…… after a long simmer and the roots were just right the pot got some coconut milk to round it out and then the cleaned crawlers and a wife idea add to drop some shrimp and scallops. The scallops were spilt and got a 45 second pan sear to flavor and then dropped in the pot with the rest of the goodies!
Ok so enough words….the pic!
It got ladled over rice and topped with GO, cilantro, Thai red peppers, and roasted peanuts…..
Oh my this is my new fav curry of all time!!!!
Oh need to add I’ve seen Rafter H BBQ traditional boil pics, I hope he posts them as they are perfect boil!!!!!
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