DIY Recipe: Crawfish Boil - In a Pot!

We went to a a crawfish boil last night, had lots of fun, and then brought the fun home with us. This afternoon, my sister Casey and I gathered the leftovers and threw this together for a Crawfish Corn Sausage Potato Soup.....aka, Crawfish Boil - In a Pot!

Okay, so we had a gallon-size Ziploc bag full of whole crawfish, and when we peeled them, it looked about 2 or 3 cups of tail meat, but just peel as many as you have.

Finely chop 1/2 of an onion, and a stalk of celery. We'll get to the garlic later.

Melt 3 or 4 tbsp. of butter in a big pot. Go ahead and put 4 tbsp. Remember to smile as you melt it.

Throw in the onion and celery into the big pot.

And stir. And stir some more.

Now finely chop 2 cloves of garlic and dump it into the big pot, so it can make friends with Mr. Onion and Ms. Celery.

                 

Cut the kernels off of your corn cobs and start dumping it into the big pot.

Like this. (Or you can use frozen corn, if you don't have corn cobs)

Here are all of the kernels.

Here are all of the cobs. 

Now dice your potatoes, slice your sausage, and dump them along with the crawfish into........yep, the big pot.

Guest Blogger! My beautiful sister, Casey!

Oh, doesn't that look absolutely wonderful?

Now pour five cups of chicken broth into the big pot. 

Now add about a tbsp. of Paul Prudhomme's Seafood Magic seasoning, 3 tbsp. of sugar, and one big bayleaf, or two little ones. We are LEAFing this up to you. My sister and I are so punny. (budumbump CYMBAL CRASH!) Now cover the big pot and let it simmer so it can mingle, while you mix up a batch of Angel Biscuits to accompany your soup.

ME!

Now it's time for......Angel biscuits. Aw, yeah, it is.

Click on the picture above for the recipe, if you can't quite read it. If you want a giant batch of Angel Biscuits, follow this recipe. If you don't, half it as we did. Peace out.                                                                                  

Oh, wait I can't peace out! I forgot to introduce our helper, Skittles. He smelled everything to make sure it was alright. Now, you can look at the pictures below for the Angel Biscuits.

 Me and my sister! Big Chef, and Lil' Chef.

   Dump two and a half cups of flour and the rest of the dry ingredients in a big bowl. My cute little measuring spoon had to make an appearance.     

Now cut in about a third of a cup of vegetable shortening.

Pour in the buttermilk and yeast mixture.

And mix, mix, mix!

Cover and put the dough into the fridge until you are ready to use it.

When you are ready, pinch off a biscuit-sized blob of dough and place it on a lightly-greased baking sheet.

 And do the rest.

Imagine these are baked. Use your brains.....because I kind of forgot to take a picture of the baked biscuits.

Now pour a steamy bowl of....Crawfish Boil - IN A POT, with a warm BAKED Angel Biscuit slathered with creamy butter, and enjoy your meal! TA DA!