As some of you know, my dad passed away last year. Like most of us after sad events like this I had some regrets, things I wish we would have done together. Something dad always wanted to do was have all his neighbors at the lake and family over to his cabin for a cajun boil.
While we are still trying to figure out what we’re going to do with his cabin we invited all his friends over to the cabin on Saturday for a huge feast of cajun food,ice cold beer and shared stories about dad.
This was a first for me so I researched many recipes and got to work.
We used two turkey fryers.
Zatarain makes a seasoning packet that comes in a pouch that you just throw in the water.
All the ingredients were divided between the two pots.
Ten pounds red potatoes
Six vadalia onions
Seven pounds sausage.(andoule and kielbasa)
24 ears of sweetcorn, cut in half
Ten pounds medium shrimp
I ordered twenty pounds of seasoned,boiled and frozen crawfish from Louisiana Crawfish Co.
Once the water comes to a boil add the seasoning bags.
Then add the potatoes (leave whole) allow water to return to a boil and cook for 5 min.
Add the onions (quartered) and sausage and cook for 15 min.
Add the corn and cook ten min. or until potatoes are done.
Add the shrimp and cook about 3 min. Be careful not to overcook the shrimp.
Instead of straining through a colander I scooped it out with a large spider into buckets. We then dumped it out on a picnic table covered with newspaper.
I heated up the crawfish briefly in the oven.
We had various seasonings out for people to add.
All I can say is I’m sorry I hadn’t done this long ago! It was excellent. This is a great way to feed a lot of people with minimal work and cleanup. P,us there’s a bit of a novelty aspect to the whole thing.
It was a wonderful day, the food was a big hit, the beer was ice cold and there was a lot of loud laughs (and some tears)
This is something I’ll definitely be doing again! And I’m going to get better at not putting things off.
Here’s to ya pops 
