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soak after the boil. The real ingredient is the Louisiana crab boil, which I am sure could be found on the WWW Bay leaf can be found here fresh and is what my grandfather used. I add a large bottle of lemon juice when I turn them off the heat, large meaning 32 ounces. we bring all the ingredients an...

I'm old school.....liquid Louisiana crab boil, added salt, cayenne, lot's of lemon, and bay leaf........ bring them to a boil. boil for around seven minutes, soak for twenty. then the key is when you take them out is to turn them all on their back. the shell olds all the warm juices in until your re...

I have had one from Plow and Hearth ( I think) for close to fifteen years.........I really appreciate having it during our winters, even with them being mild and short. I have a wood stove in the house (imagine that) and it has the catalytic converter. It burns wood down the almost a powder, so this...

It looks like something that came off the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"......

Another
one is the birthday boy with a gator that paid us a visit
last is my siblings and me

DSCF0890.jpg So this is what a typical table of Crab carnage looks like on the Blind River. We cook them whole with quite a bit more seasoning. we add corn, potatoe and whole mushrooms. The good thing out here is cleanup is a breeze. This particular day was just great. Me oldest nephew wanted his 1...

I have the Stove tec stove to go with that Kettle......I've been considering the large Kettle...........Off grid happens around here during hurricane season. That thing is large enough to warm a bathtub of water! I can tell that during Katrina we had no power for 17 days.....it changed my way of thi...

Yep Grilled grab!!

just baste them with budda and garlic!!

That's exactly it Connie!!
Here, at certain times of the year and for us always, we throw the females back..........

we just tie a chicken neck to a string and the crabs will hang on long enough for us to scoop them in a net............. and we set traps out that soak over night, that is where the numbers come from. the fun comes from one at a time with the kids. skeeters can be brutal at dusk for sure.........but...