What are you having for dinner?
 

Today I'm eating salmon with tomatos and spagetti.
What are you having?

It's still tentative at this point, but I'm leaning towards crawfish étouffée.

Maybe some soup, corn flakes in milk or whatever I can prepare in the mixer.

Damnit, now I'm going to have to go to Long Beach and have some shrimp, oysters, crawfish, and gator tail.

I'm on a diet to lose weight so I'm having only fresh fruits for dinner |cry|

I had shrimp and oysters a few days ago. Gator is just a bit on the greasy side for my taste.

I generally go eat my favs every 3 or 4 days in Long beach at the Cajun Crawfish Hut. If you ever get over this way, be sure and let me know and I'll treat you to a non-greasy basket of gator tail at my favorite lil eating hole.

Steak, baked potato and a Newcastle (or six) in a frosty tall mug :D

I heard on the radio yesterday that that the hurricanes didn't hurt the crawfish industry like they thought it might. Louisiana is going to have a bumper crop of mud bugs. Looking forward to the price coming down.

Tonight will prolly be porcini mushroom/parmesan crusted salmon, cheese grits made with chicken stock and cream instead of water with Rotel tomatoes added and a little andouille sausage thrown in. The wife will prolly make the spinach Maria.

We like to eat well most every night. Tonight, porkchops stuffed with a lobster stuffing I have been working on. A nice fettucini alfredo, potatoes au gratin and a nice tossed salad.

Lean Cuisine, spagetti with meat sauce (275 calories).

Crow!

Hotdogs, armour hotdogs.

(actually, I think they are Oscar Meyer)

Cut raw veggies and a homemade meatball sandwich or leftover sheppards pie with green beans.

Beans, brown beans. The wife is working so I get to eat good ;)
Maybe I'll fry an egg and toss that into the mix. Makes for a stronger after-fragrance ;)
But tomorrow poutine rappee! Salt pork wrapped in a grated potato snowball and slowly boiled for 8 hours. An Acadien dish I don't get very often and one of the many reasons I'm moving back to L'Acadie (New Brunswick). After that I might not eat again until Wednesday or so ;)

LOL! That's what I eat for lunch everyday. I've got a freezer full of Lean Cuisine's. |thumb

Forgot to mention I'll be making the family Breakfast Burritos for dinner. They are filled with scrambled eggs, country gravy, sausage, hash browns and sometimes bacon wrapped in a tasty tortilla. Strange but yummy!

|banghead| I'm realy hungry now

chicken breasts with some kinda herb sauce, tomatos, shrimp, red onions and some other goodies made into a pasta sauce, served over those wide egg noodles

It's BB season, so we normally resort to the boxed ration versions of anything for a few months. Pizza tonight, tomorrow, probably spaghetti with homemade sauce, there's generally 3-5 extras here on the weekend.

Toby - FanTC - How many crawfish do you need to feed say 12-15 people in an étouffée over rice? Catching crawfish in nets at the cabin is generally a 12 pack event for the parents while the kids scramble in the water. I can generally catch the fresh fish.

There's probably a 500 mile radius about 120 miles north of me that is the FARTHEST away from any ocean anywhere in North America. :)

You'll need at least 2 lbs of shelled crawfish tails to make enough étouffée for that many people. I can get 12 oz. frozen packages of crawfish tails when the fresh isn't in season and that makes enough for about 4 nice size servings. Three of those packages would be 2 lbs.

I'm a pig. I'd go for between 3 and 5 pounds. Of course we've had 6 people at a crawfish boil and cooked up 250 pounds of the lil critters.

Note: throw in a pony keg, multiple smokes, and 40+ pounds of boiled crawfish per person and you get a bunch of toasted, tail-pinching, head-sucking fools, albeit a ton of fun.

Thanks! I'll buy a package or two for backup. :D
(I'm guessing that up here, crawfish are a lot smaller than in a coastal area. And yeah I can make a dark rouex)
Maybe the kids will eat what they catch?? |huh

At the most they may weigh an ounce up here, but I may have found something the kids' will eat besides hotdogs!

Strawberries + oranges + cottage cheese + milk + sugar + rice + a little bit of citric acid.
All mixed in a blender.
~2 kilograms - yum yum gulp gulp - dinner of champions ! :D