Bug Season

It's crawfish time again (some folks call them mud bugs, or bugs for short) and we have a kiddie pool full of about 15 to prove it! While at the seafood counter getting some super jumbo shrimp and bay scallops I noticed the sign for live crawfish at $2.49/lb so we got a bit over a pound to take home and play with. We haven't had much rain lately so the creeks are not exactly flowing right now. We'll have to search to find a good release spot for them this spring. For more about our past crawfish adventures check out these old posts:
http://casadegalletti.blogspot.com/2007/02/crawfish-in-pool.html
http://casadegalletti.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-i-i-im-stayin-alive.html
pictures in this post http://casadegalletti.blogspot.com/2007/03/fish-and-bugs-and-moon-and-mud-bugs.html
more pictures http://casadegalletti.blogspot.com/2007/03/crawfish-release.html

Since I already had a pot of boiling seasoned water on the stove from cooking the shrimp, I grabbed 4 of the crawfish and threw them in so that we could eat them for dinner. Paul, who loves scallops but doesn't care much for shrimp, didn't like the crawfish at all since it tasted just like shrimp. Giselle ate 2 of them. I always plan seafood night the night before trash day so that our inside and outside trash cans don't get all stunk up. We rounded out the meal with some fresh spinach sauteed in butter and garlic. The kids pretty much love any food that we get from Finca Pura Vida and the spinach is no exception! Tonight I think that I'll cook up some more spinach and the rest of the snow peas.